SubmitGitHub Copilot’s voice of “credit consumption is too intense”

SubmitGitHub Copilot’s voice of “credit consumption is too intense”

MicrosoftGitHub Copilot, an AI coding support service provided by GitHub under the umbrella, is a developer’s tool that can help you with code completion and chat consultation on the editor. Conventional Copilot has noticed how to answer a few lines of code completion and a short question, but in recent years, AI has improved the function of "agent type" to make modifications based on multiple steps while examining multiple files.

On the use of such agent types, GitHub has launched a usage-based pay-per-use charge from June 1, 2026 as “The conventional plan has no longer seen the cost of calculation resources”.

GitHub Copilot’s pay-per-use billing starts, and if you use “AI Credit”, additional charges will be required - GIGAZINE

In the new pricing system, AI credit is used to consume AI credit according to the selected model and work content. Every month, you will be given a certain AI credit for each plan, and you will need additional billing if you want to exceed the given AI credit.

However, after the transition from June 1, 2026, the user said that "more credit is reduced than expected".

Comment Home Do you have only 1% of GitHub Copilot’s new price, just 20 lines of code with adaptive paste? Home Home This is a progressive coating. Home Home

— Yamaneko Hinoki Giken (@felis silv) June 2, 2026

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— dnc kancolle (@d kancolle) June 1, 2026

I spend half a month with a few hours...

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The new GitHub Copilot system, I tried to try it, and I consumed 100 credits for small plan generation.

— hapi⇒ a.k.a. hapinano (@hapinano) June 1, 2026

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Github Copilot’s new price is reduced by 2.5 days from 9:15. How to use pic.twitter.com

— Yuji Tsuchimoto (@tsuchim) June 1, 2026

The Register, an overseas IT media, also reported an example of using a credit of $39 per month (about 6200 yen) by the Copilot Pro+ user who posted it to GitHub Community using about 8% of the game frame for 2 hours, and a credit of $6 (about 960 yen) for one change request. RedditClaude There was a report that I consumed 16% of Pro+’s hash frame when I asked for revisions to the website using Opus 4.8.

GitHub Community A user had two short sessions with the Visual Studio Code extension and posted that they consumed 210.5 credits with a total of 2-4 prompts. Another user can report that Pro+’s 7000 AI credits were used in one day, and you can also see a post that has canceled the Pro plan.

In addition, there are many comments that it is difficult to predict how much AI credit is consumed by each operation.

The reason why AI coding support is changing from simple chat to the overall development environment. Even if the user enters a short instruction, Copilot may process open files, related reposit , conversation history, generated answers, re脈 contexts, etc., and agent-type functions may call multiple models for one instruction. The internal processing is not limited to one operation.

The request is to make it easier for users to understand the estimation of credit consumption. However, GitHub does not provide specific responses to complaints that are encountered in the community when creating an article. As the transition to the pay-per-use billing has just started, we will focus on what improvement measures will be shown in the future.

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