[hansmayer]

> shows you don't understand how Copilot's previous billing worked

Having used it for > 4 years and having paid for it for > 2.5 years, I think I know full well how it's previous billing worked.

> You could make one request which used tens of dollars worth of tokens, obviously not the intended usage pattern and obviously unsustainable.

Gee, thanks Mr. Obvious! It never occurred to me this was the reason Microsoft recently removed Opus 4.6 and added a 15x multiplier in front of the inferior, but less token-intensive Opus 4.7!

[ZephyrBlu]

Why would you extrapolate from Microsoft's very poor setup to tokens in general then if you know it's stupid and not representative?

[hansmayer]

? How TF is it not representative, if it provides interface to literally ALL the major models?? What are you talking about mate?

[ZephyrBlu]

No other provider works like Copilot did with "premium requests". Usage limits (Codex/Claude Code), which are inherently linked to tokens, are the most common. Some providers like Amp charge you per-token like Copilot is moving to.

Microsoft's previous model was not linked to tokens at all. Complete anomaly among coding agent providers. It's not representative of token economics at large. Claude Code recently announced increased limits. Codex does regular limit refreshes.

Tokens are pretty damn abundant even though they're not bargain basement cheap yet.