The golden age of Microsoft's Github Copilot appears to be at an end ' for the little guy, at least. The company is switching its billing system from a flat subscription rate to a token-usage system that has the potential to bill users at a significantly higher rate. Bigger enterprises may still have the juice for it, but smaller companies and workers could find themselves wondering how they're supposed to balance the monthly budget. 'What a joke,' one Redditor recently wrote, claiming that, while they currently only pay around $29 per month, the new rate will balloon their costs to nearly $750 a month. 'This new usage model is just stupidly expensive. I'm adjusting mine by cancelling. At that cost, it is no longer cost-effective or useful in any practical way.' The increases sound extreme. However, some Copilot users have bitten back at this criticism ' noting that, if you know what you're doing, you really shouldn't be blowing through quite so many tokens on a regular basis. The...
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