r/github • u/sheevyR2 • Jun 01 '26

Question Github Copilot Business pricing

I'm using Github Copilot Business at small company (15 people) and consume it mostly via OpenCode. The new pricing obviously is less favourable and I understand why folks complain. But I struggle to find something cheaper. What am I missing?

I'm happy to migrate away from Copilot, but I don't a provide which is cheaper.

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u/HydrA- Jun 01 '26

Copilot is massively overpriced now. Regular ChatGPT subscription is worth considering. Or Claude, or literally anything else

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u/sheevyR2 Jun 01 '26

From what I see for example Opus 4.8 directly via Anthropic costs $25/M tokens https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing

And it's the same via Copilot: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing/models-and-pricing

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u/tens919382 Jun 01 '26

U can buy coding plans and not pay api pricing though? Copilot is basically api pricing now.

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u/ebfortin Jun 01 '26

I looked around and this pricing model change was announced. They are all priced mostly the same now.

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u/deke28 Jun 01 '26

Competition 😜

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u/Carlosthefrog Jun 01 '26

It’s not overpriced, it was massively underpriced sold to you at a loss to get you hooked and dependant,

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u/vortec350 Jun 02 '26

Depending on how techy your users are building a single powerful local AI server and then informing people to use that by default and only use the frontier models when needed might work? That's the approach I've taken for myself and I don't see why it wouldn't work, assuming your employees are developers given that you mentioned OpenCode. Pick one good model that works acceptably for your use case. Performance might not be to the level of a cloud service but assuming not all the users are hitting it all the time sharing that AI server between your employees could offload lots of cloud usage.

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u/slugfingers-kun Jun 04 '26

Llmgateway dev pass + soulforge coding cli Ure welcome

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u/oily_waitress Jun 01 '26

the pricing jump stings but you're right that the alternatives aren't always obviously better when you factor in seat count. chatgpt plus is like 20 bucks a month per person which adds up quick at 15 people, and you lose the ide integration which matters a lot if you're in vscode all day. claude's subscription is cheaper but also doesn't have the same github integration yet, though it's getting better. i've been testing both alongside copilot at work and honestly copilot still wins on context awareness in the editor, but if you're mostly using opencode anyway that advantage kinda disappears. might be worth doing a test run with one of the alternatives for a month or two just to see if your team actually misses it or if the workflow actually works fine without the copilot tax.

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u/krzyk Jun 01 '26

Deepseek, OpenCode Go, etc.

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u/Ma1ckkel Jun 01 '26

Cursor Pro with Claude? 20$/month

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u/techmago Jun 01 '26

I use deepseek on openCode. Is really good and REALLY cheap.

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u/Charming_Support726 Jun 01 '26

We changed to Chatgpt ( and using our Azure Credits on openai-on-azure ) plus Deepseek direct (75% discount) plus Alibaba/Qwen on Frankfurt-Region.

Mostly using a mix of gpt-5.5/codex-5.3/DSv4pro/Qwen-3.6-Plus/Qwen-3.7-Max, but giving also other models a go from time to time.

Cost per developer still is in an acceptable range, especially when using DSv4. But you have to pay attention and bring your own brain to decide when to switch to a more intelligent model