Pro+ user hitting “weekly rate limit” after ~300/1500 requests — system unusable

[mfakhoury]

🏷️ Discussion Type

Bug

💬 Feature/Topic Area

Copilot in GitHub

Body

This is becoming unusable for real work.

I’m a Pro+ user and have only used around 300 out of 1500 requests, yet I’m constantly getting the error:

“you've exceeded your weekly rate limit.”

In practice, I can send 1–2 messages, then I’m blocked again for hours. After waiting, I can again send 1–2 messages, and the same issue repeats. This behavior makes no sense compared to the visible quota.

There are clearly multiple hidden limits (weekly, burst, model, etc.), but users have zero visibility into any of them. As a paying user, I should at least know:

which limit I actually hit
why it was triggered
when it will reset

Right now it feels like a complete black box. The system behaves randomly — sometimes it works, sometimes it just stops with no explanation.

I also tried switching to the “Auto” model, but that introduced another serious issue. When it works, the responses are often inaccurate or completely off from what I actually asked. In many cases, it generates irrelevant output or makes obvious mistakes that require constant correction.

So I’m effectively stuck between:

models that are rate limited after 1–2 messages, and
a fallback model that is unreliable and produces poor-quality results

Rate limiting itself is understandable, but this level of lack of transparency and unpredictability makes Copilot unreliable for professional use.

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