GitHub Copilot 9x price increase for Claude models
Copilot pro pricing, what’s the catch?
GitHub Copilot’s recent pricing/model changes feel like more than a normal price increase to me.
The new Copilot pricing makes zero sense. Why am I paying $39/mo for $39 in expiring API credits?
What are the differences between the GitHub Copilot Business, GitHub Copilot Enterprise, and GitHub Copilot Individual plans?
GitHub Copilot has multiple offerings for organizations and an offering for individual developers. All the offerings include both inline suggestion and chat assistance. The primary differences between the organization offerings and the individual offering are license management, policy management, and IP indemnity.
Organizations can choose between GitHub Copilot Business and GitHub Copilot Enterprise. GitHub Copilot Business primarily features GitHub Copilot in the coding environment - that is the IDE, CLI and GitHub Mobile. GitHub Copilot Enterprise includes everything in GitHub Copilot Business. It also adds an additional layer of customization for organizations and integrates into GitHub.com as a chat interface to allow developers to converse with GitHub Copilot throughout the platform. GitHub Copilot Enterprise can index an organization’s codebase for a deeper understanding of the customer’s knowledge for more tailored suggestions and will offer customers access to fine-tuned custom, private models for inline suggestions.
GitHub Copilot Individual is designed for individual developers, freelancers, students, educators, and open source maintainers. The plan includes all the features of GitHub Copilot Business except organizational license management, policy management, and IP indemnity.
What is GitHub Copilot?
GitHub Copilot transforms the developer experience. Backed by the leaders in AI, GitHub Copilot provides contextualized assistance throughout the software development lifecycle, from inline suggestions and chat assistance in the IDE to code explanations and answers to docs in GitHub and more. With GitHub Copilot elevating their workflow, developers can focus on: value, innovation, and happiness.
GitHub Copilot enables developers to focus more energy on problem solving and collaboration and spend less effort on the mundane and boilerplate. That’s why developers who use GitHub Copilot report up to 75% higher satisfaction with their jobs than those who don’t and are up to 55% more productive at writing code without sacrifice to quality, which all adds up to engaged developers shipping great software faster.
GitHub Copilot integrates with leading editors, including Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, and Neovim, and, unlike other AI coding assistants, is natively built into GitHub. Growing to millions of individual users and tens of thousands of business customers, GitHub Copilot is the world’s most widely adopted AI developer tool and the competitive advantage developers ask for by name.
What is included in GitHub Copilot Free?
GitHub Copilot Free users are limited to 2000 completions and 50 chat requests (including Copilot Edits).
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So it seems that GitHub Copilot is increasing their costs by 900% for Claude models starting in June:
See https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing/models-and-pricing#model-multipliers-for-annual-copilot-pro-and-copilot-pro-subscribers for the details, and https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/ for the full press release with all their fancy words trying to hide that it’s just a 900% increase.
Has anyone tried the new official Claude Plugin for VSCode? Is it any good? Does it still allow me to have it work in my full project and see what the agent has done and accept/reject the change (which is all I really want…). I’m thinking about moving from Copilot Pro+ to either Claude Pro or Max 5x…
GitHub copilot costs 10$. Open ai costs 20 and Claude also costs 20. But copilot includes both. Unlimited as far as I know.
What’s the catch? It’s obvious that copilot is an obvious choice, unless I’m missing something here.