Severe degradation in Copilot value: quota exhausted in days with reduced reliability and rate limits

[Anouar19779]

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Copilot CLI

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I am extremely dissatisfied with the recent changes to Copilot's pricing and quota system.

Under the previous model, I never came close to exhausting my monthly quota. During March and April, I was able to work normally and still had a significant portion of my premium usage remaining at the end of the month. The balance between cost, usage, and productivity was reasonable.

Since the pricing changes, that balance has completely disappeared. I have consumed nearly my entire monthly quota in only four days of normal professional use.

At the same time, I am encountering frequent issues that reduce productivity rather than improve it. Models sometimes misunderstand requirements and require multiple corrective iterations before producing a usable result.

Another recurring issue is that GPT-5 High occasionally appears to lose track of the conversation context. Instead of responding to my latest prompt, it re-executes or revisits a previous request that has already been completed, as if the most recent instruction had never been provided.

As a result, premium requests are consumed on responses that do not address my current task. I have multiple conversation logs demonstrating this behavior.

Even more concerning, I am regularly blocked by "rate limit" restrictions despite paying for a premium service. I do not understand how a service can charge for premium usage while simultaneously restricting access through rate limits during normal professional work.

The issue is not simply that the service costs more. The issue is that the value delivered per premium request has decreased significantly while request consumption has increased significantly.

Today, I can no longer predict how much work I will be able to accomplish with my subscription. What previously lasted an entire month is now exhausted in a few days.

GitHub is selling a professional service, but the current quota limits, premium request consumption, and rate-limit restrictions do not provide the level of continuity and predictability that professional users expect and pay for.

I strongly urge GitHub to reconsider the current model and restore a reasonable balance between pricing, quotas, reliability, and service availability.

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