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by ZephyrBlu 32 days ago
Why would you extrapolate from Microsoft's very poor setup to tokens in general then if you know it's stupid and not representative?
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? How TF is it not representative, if it provides interface to literally ALL the major models?? What are you talking about mate?
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.