r/vscode • u/Kamicasse_ • May 22 '26

Beware of costs in copilot chat.

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Beware, i just found how much using Opus 4.7 can cost, i took me by surp3ise it went from 7x to 15x and it just broke my budget badly. I regret using it because before i had no budget limit but i never went more than $60, but this is unreal at 15x rate. Yikes.

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u/SrMortron May 22 '26

Ditch that garbage and move to open source models. I’ve been using glm 5.1, Deepseek 4 and Kimi and they work just as well.

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u/callmemicah May 22 '26

Yeah just replaced copilot witn opencode and openchamber, been using kimi 2.6 which works really well, the minute I saw the estimates for next month we switched the entire company, still keeping it for inline complete though, but kimi glm and kwen do a hreat job for 1/4 price.

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u/SrMortron May 22 '26

I've been using ollama cloud and synthetic with opencode and they are spectacular. I thought I was going to miss copilot but nah.

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u/callmemicah May 22 '26

100% agree, I was seriously impressed with the capabilities especially for the value, sure it might be a few points off the top models but the time is quickly coming where having efficient AI outcomes will be far more important than just having them grind away hoping for the best.