On GitHub Copilot's new pricing
GitHub Copilot's new premium model pricing recently went into effect, and it made me realize just how good value their previous offering really was. Last week, I began working as normal. I use Cline in VS Code, and route the API requests through the VS Code LM API. This lets me tap into all of the GitHub Copilot models I have access to through my subscription. Monday went by without a hitch, but Tuesday came, and something odd happened. I started getting errors indicating I had ran out of quota. "Hm, that's weird" I thought, given that I had never seen such a message. After digging around I found the new pricing model , which includes 300 "premium" requests per month. As I found out, Claude Sonnet 4 is one of those premium models. What quickly became quite worrying is the fact that I had ran out of premium requests in a single day. Using models in an agent loop obviously makes a lot of requests to the API, but it still is surprising that I blew through the ...