Copilot Pro: 1 agentic prompt consumed 576 of 1,500 AI Credits on June 1 entire monthly budget lasts 2 sessions

[ashharzawarsyed]

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Plan: Copilot Pro ($10/month, 1,500 AI Credits)
Date: June 1, 2026 — first day of AI Credits billing
Model used: GPT-5.4 (Standard / "High")
What happened: I sent a single agentic prompt on a multi-service workspace in VS Code. The usage dashboard shows approximately 576 credits consumed — that is $5.76 out of my $10 monthly budget, from ONE prompt.

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The math this produces:
At ~576 credits per deep agentic session:

• My 1,500 AI Credits last 2–3 sessions per month total
• I run 2–3 sessions per day
• Effective usable days per month: 1–2

This is not a pricing edge case. This is the standard workflow Copilot marketed in its agentic and workspace features.

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The core issue:
GPT-5.4 in agent mode reads full codebase context on every turn. A multi-service workspace generates 100,000–400,000 input tokens per session at $2.50/M input + $15/M output. That is $3–$8 per session. The Pro plan contains $10 total.

GitHub sold agentic coding as a feature of Copilot Pro. You cannot run that feature for more than 1–2 sessions before the plan is empty.

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What I'm asking GitHub to address:

1. Publish a clear token consumption estimate for GPT-5.4 on a typical multi-file agentic session before users run them
2. Show a per-session credit cost before the session starts, not after
3. Reconsider the Pro plan's credit allocation — $10 = 2–3 agentic sessions is not a usable product for the use case you advertised
4. Restore the fallback-to-base-model behavior that existed before — so when credits run out, Copilot continues on GPT-5 mini instead of hard-stopping

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I'm not asking for free compute. I'm asking for honesty: if Copilot Pro can only handle 2–3 agentic sessions per month on your flagship model, that needs to be communicated clearly on the pricing page — not discovered the hard way on day 1 of billing.

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[whitewidovv]

just throwing my comment in the mix that my $39 plan was completely used up in about 2 hours of normal use. I will not let my subscription renew if there isn't a change to this. i'll be finding another provider. i heard codex is good these days, may try that. i used claude previously and didn't hate it.
i just loved the agent system within copilot. but new cost model is unsustainable and I will not be resubscribing.

also, i have never before posted on github community before today; never felt the need to, but this change was so bad i felt the need to come and speak out about it. github, microsoft, i hope this is seen and understood and rectified. i get they were trying to balance things, but they balanced things in the same way anakin skywalker brought balance to the force

[Nerpson]

Same sentiment here. The new billing is way too aggressive. I burned 48% of my Copilot Pro monthly plan in one session of 2-3 hours, even with the caveman "hack". This is definitely not worth the price I'm paying. If kept as-is, I'm doubting I will keep this subscription.

[TheDayG0ne]

Эх, точно такая же проблема... Мой месячный лимит в 1500 токенов в рамках Github Pro (Student Pack) улетел ровно за 1 день пользования агентами

[XXGordon]

请问这个问题怎么解决？我为何开不了pro？我前几个月开通过pro