Petition to reset this month tokens

[joj59]

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Product Feedback

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Copilot in GitHub

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This Copilot token system is honestly wild 😤

Like… how is usage even being calculated here? It feels completely inconsistent. One moment you're doing a normal bit of coding or asking for a simple explanation, and suddenly you're hitting limits like you’ve been running a data center workload 💀

The lack of transparency makes it worse. You don’t really know what’s “expensive” until you’ve already burned through it. Is it the prompt? The response? Hidden context? Some mystery background tokens? Nobody knows 🤷‍♂️

And the resets… don’t even get me started. If the system is going to be this strict, at least make it predictable. Right now it feels like you're being punished for just using the tool normally.

Most of us are stuck with last months subscription and this doesn't make any sense, since just a file review with no changes costs 20% of allowance. Token is amazing for a chat bot but its horrible for coding. This doesn't solve or simplify any of the competition out there. That is why I think either the token allowance should be at least 10X the current or a reset is needed.

Honestly, it would make way more sense if:

usage was clearly explained 📊
token costs were predictable and reasonable
and everyone just got a fair reset so people could actually understand the limits again 🔄

Because right now it just feels like you're guessing in the dark and hoping you don’t randomly hit a wall mid-task 🧱

Not unusable, but definitely not the smooth developer experience it should be 😅

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[Andres-Escobar]

I just cancelled my suscription...this is BS.

[RobG66]

I cancelled as well. I'm not paying even $10 if it's not going to be actually usable. Losing Opus was bad enough, but the current agents seem to run on a reduced capability as well.

[joj59]

If there's no change I thinks it cheaper to make a subscription at the source. No more middle man!

[Andres-Escobar]

claude code..., $20 :P

[Mieekaserra]

yep mine's cancelled too. i've used 20$ of tokens in less than 4 hours.

[dSlyders]

Please revert change it has no sence .. 2-3 request on chat and im at 20% usage on my copilot pro+ .. every one will cancel subscription except compagnie.. What about small dev ??? we are not rich

[arshvinw5]

I'm having the same issue. 26% after 2 requests This is makes no sense at all... I really thought I did something wrong....

[CarinFa]

Perdón, hace rato que estoy tratando de encontrar en donde es que se hacen los reclamos?, no sé si este es el lugar correcto (ojala alguien me lo indique) pero es la primera vez que me pasa, tengo el plan Pro,
y en el día de ayer, a las 21:00 hrs (hora de Buenos Aires, Argentina), ocurrió mi reinicio de créditos mensuales mientras estaba usando el agente en Visual Studio Code. Justo antes del cambio de mes, mi consumo estaba casi llegando al 50%, luego del recambio, al rato de seguir trabajando, de pronto el uso me marca 58%!, en menos de una hora!, es imposible, como pude gastar en menos de una hora, mas de lo que gaste en todo el mes pasado?,
será que se "adjunto" por error el consumo anterior por estar trabajando justo en el momento del cambio?,
donde hago el reclamo correspondiente?

[ucqeco]

Rly hope they will change quota calculation. Mothly limit in under 10 requests? Guess ppl will return to hand coding again ^^ me > sad =/

[brasastudio]

Mate, I use the Claude API directly, and if you don’t have a local LLM running, you can easily spend more than 10k USD just on prompt requests. That’s basic reality for large-scale projects.

I bet if you put 10k USD into Claude Direct API services and worked on a big project for an entire day, you would burn through it extremely fast.

It’s the same for GPT. For any serious app running with Codex/GPT 5+, I would estimate around 100 USD per day using GPT, while on Claude it can go far beyond 600 USD per day depending on the model and workload.

The point is that GitHub was giving us one of the only ways to access this level of service with a much lower cost. These models always had very high pricing, and I use them daily. I can confidently say that if you use Opus 4+ directly through the Claude API, you can easily spend over 200 USD per day. If you move to something like Opus 4.6, it can hit 600 USD per day or even more with 8–10 hours of active development work.

That’s why I kept asking myself how GitHub was managing to offer this, because I buy server infrastructure and AI services directly, and the operational costs are always extremely expensive. Like I said, around 600 USD per day with Claude Opus 4.6 working heavily for 8–10 hours, and around 100 USD per day using GPT 5.3 Codex.

I’ve managed to reduce these costs by configuring a local Ollama setup and using 2x P40 GPUs to run local agent skills and other workloads locally instead of relying entirely on external APIs.

[joj59]

Truth is they were just getting people to sign up. Giving us a taste to get us hooked. Along with training their AI or models. It was never going to last but I wasn't expecting this kind of change. This is no different from having a cluade subscription!

[dSlyders]

but Github for most people we are small dev with small project, i know they must made money .. but let us work on lower model with decent price .. its not normal to pay a monthly sub to use it 2 day of 30 .. Give us a solution for indie dev or smaller dev. i completly understand for big project.

[brasastudio]

I'm trying to build a very professional solution here, but it's still not finished yet. There are still many problems to solve and a lot of interactions and systems to improve.

I believe it will become much more useful over the next few weeks. For now, I’m mainly adapting everything and making it work the way I originally imagined.

https://github.com/brasa-interactive-studios/Conductor