On Friday, GitHub announced “Premium Requests” for Github Copilot, a new system that imposes rate limitations when users move on to AI models except for the basic model for tasks such as “agent” coding and multi-file editing. While Github Copilot's subscribers can still take unlimited actions with the Basic Model (GPT-4O) of Openai's GPT-4O), activities and actions with newer models, such as 3.7 anthropic sonnet, will be capped today.
Customers at Copilot Pro ($ 20 per month) Tier will receive 300 monthly premium requests beginning on May 5, GitHub said in a Blog post. As for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users, they will receive 300 and 1,000 monthly premium requests, respectively, starting between May 12 and May 19.
Customers in any of the plans can buy additional premium requests at $ 0.04 per request or upgrade to GitHub's new Copilot Pro+ plan. Starting at $ 39 per month, Copilot Pro+ offers 1,500 premium requests and “access to the best models,” said Github, along with the GPT-4.5 of Openai.
Effective price increases for the more capable of copilot model, which is coming One day after AI Coding Platform Devin has increased rates for some usersProbably a mirror of higher costs of computing these models. Reasoning models such as the 3.7 sonnet spend more time to check their answers, making it more reliable-but increasing the computing needed to run them.
But Copilot is not useful. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said last August that Copilot costs more than 40% of GitHub's income in 2024 and has a bigger business than all GitHub when tech giant seven years ago.
