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7.5 is promotional rate, it will go up to 25. And in May you will be switched to per token billing. Opus 4.5 and 4.6 will be removed very soon. So what is you

by chewz 6mo ago

7.5 is promotional rate, it will go up to 25. And in May you will be switched to per token billing. Opus 4.5 and 4.6 will be removed very soon. So what is your contingency plan?

carlinm 6mo ago
Are you saying github copilot is switching to a per token billing model? If so, you have a link to that?
Someone1234 6mo ago
Can you link to a source for anything you're claiming?
- slopinthebag 6mo ago
  https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-16-claude-opus-4-7-is-generally-available/ https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-16-claude-opus-4-7-is-... > Over the coming weeks, Opus 4.7 will replace Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6 in the model picker for Copilot Pro+. > This model is launching with a 7.5× premium request multiplier as part of promotional pricing until April 30th TBF, it's a rumour that they are switching to per-token price in May, but it's from an insider (apparently), and seeing how good of a deal the current per-request pricing is, everyone expects them to bump prices sometime soon or switch to per-token pricing.
  - phainopepla2 6mo ago
    The per-request pricing is ridiculous (in a good way, for the user). You can get so much done on a single prompt if you build the right workflow. I'm sure they'll change it soon
    - p1necone 6mo ago
      Yeah it seems insane that it's priced this way to me too. Using sonnet/opus through a ~$40 a month copilot plan gives me at least an order of magnitude more usage than a ~$40 a month claude code plan (the usage limits on the latter are so low that it's effectively not a viable choice, at least for my use cases). The models are limited to 160k token context length but in practice that's not a big deal. Unless MS has a very favourable contract with Anthropic or they're running the models on their own hardware there's no way they're making money on this.
      - slopinthebag 6mo ago
        Yeah, you can even write your own harness that spawns subagents for free, and get essentially free opus calls too. Insane value, I'm not at all surprised they're making changes. Oh well. It was a pain in the ass to use Copilot since it had a slightly different protocol and oauth so it wasn't supported in a lot of tools, now I'm going to go with Ollama cloud probably, which is supported by pretty much everything.

by chewz 6mo ago

7.5 is promotional rate, it will go up to 25. And in May you will be switched to per token billing. Opus 4.5 and 4.6 will be removed very soon. So what is your contingency plan?

carlinm 6mo ago

Are you saying github copilot is switching to a per token billing model? If so, you have a link to that?

Someone1234 6mo ago

Can you link to a source for anything you're claiming?

slopinthebag 6mo ago
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-16-claude-opus-4-7-is-generally-available/ https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-16-claude-opus-4-7-is-... > Over the coming weeks, Opus 4.7 will replace Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6 in the model picker for Copilot Pro+. > This model is launching with a 7.5× premium request multiplier as part of promotional pricing until April 30th TBF, it's a rumour that they are switching to per-token price in May, but it's from an insider (apparently), and seeing how good of a deal the current per-request pricing is, everyone expects them to bump prices sometime soon or switch to per-token pricing.
- phainopepla2 6mo ago
  The per-request pricing is ridiculous (in a good way, for the user). You can get so much done on a single prompt if you build the right workflow. I'm sure they'll change it soon
  - p1necone 6mo ago
    Yeah it seems insane that it's priced this way to me too. Using sonnet/opus through a ~$40 a month copilot plan gives me at least an order of magnitude more usage than a ~$40 a month claude code plan (the usage limits on the latter are so low that it's effectively not a viable choice, at least for my use cases). The models are limited to 160k token context length but in practice that's not a big deal. Unless MS has a very favourable contract with Anthropic or they're running the models on their own hardware there's no way they're making money on this.
    - slopinthebag 6mo ago
      Yeah, you can even write your own harness that spawns subagents for free, and get essentially free opus calls too. Insane value, I'm not at all surprised they're making changes. Oh well. It was a pain in the ass to use Copilot since it had a slightly different protocol and oauth so it wasn't supported in a lot of tools, now I'm going to go with Ollama cloud probably, which is supported by pretty much everything.