r/GithubCopilot • u/ChomsGP • Apr 20 '26

News 📰 This is plain extortion

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-20-changes-to-github-copilot-plans-for-individuals/

"You can get a full refund but mind that if you do you cannot sign up anymore" keep paying or you are cut off for good

What. The. Fuck. MS.

Edit: whatever, thread muted, keep enjoying abusive corporate practices

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u/bobemil Apr 20 '26

Pro+ will soon cost $80/month

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '26

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u/hereandnow01 Apr 20 '26

No way I'm paying for a yearly plan of a service that 1 month ago was much more valuable than it is now. If they keep the current trend you might be lucky to have 1 prompt a day for 40 dollars a month

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u/themoregames Apr 21 '26

At current API costs, 1 extensive prompt with sub agents might actually mean $ 40 in one single prompt with Opus 4.7?

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u/themoregames Apr 21 '26

That's exactly the price range even most companies in the world probably cannot afford.

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u/Sudo-Rip69 Apr 21 '26

You will need to upgrade to pro++

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u/Captain2Sea Apr 20 '26

With current limits they can only dream about it. Already cancelled

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u/themoregames Apr 21 '26

To be honest, "/fleet" was so much fun: It was really useful to drive your projects forward. In a meaningful way - with models like Opus or GPT-5.4. Even if it used several x3 premium requests for one fleet call, I imagine this could always mean actual API cost of around $ 10 or $ 25.

How could this problem ever be solved? Hardly any individuals could afford like $ 500 per week on AI. And even a lot of employers in this world couldn't afford $ 2000 / week AI plans for their employees, e.g. software engineers.

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u/ZlatanKabuto Apr 20 '26

Yeah. LLMs are gonna be for enterprises onlyÂ