only max subscription useable?

[zsoltbito]

🏷️ Discussion Type

Bug

💬 Feature/Topic Area

Copilot in GitHub

Body

I’m seeing unexpectedly fast token or usage depletion after the monthly reset.

Before the reset, my usage pattern was comfortable for the full month. After the reset on the 1st, the available token/request budget was already depleted by the 2nd under what seems like similar usage.

Details:

• Plan: GitHub Pro
• Product/client: [web / VS Code / JetBrains / other]
• Approximate usage pattern: [brief description]
• When reset happened: [date/time, timezone]
• When depletion was noticed: [date/time, timezone]

Expected behavior:
Usage after reset should be roughly consistent with the previous month for a similar usage pattern.

Actual behavior:
The available budget appears to run out much faster immediately after the monthly reset.

Please investigate whether this is expected behavior, a metering/accounting issue, or a recent product change.

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[izaksuilov]

Same thing. As many other people I faced the problem that my tokens are vanishing so fast. I used a Copilot Pro+ subscription. I thought maybe the MAX subscription can solve this, but it only has 20k tokens (x2.8 more than pro+ sub)

So, in that case it happens that for full moth work the MAX plan isn't enough also. So, for those who are searching for the good alternative I recommend switching to the Claude code MAX subscription. It costs the same $100 but the usage limits are incomparably better. Also it has a lot of benefits, like:

• You can just write a prompt, switch to "Bypass permissions" mode and leave it to do the work. It can be working for any time without stopping and asking to continue due to session limit
• Opus 4.8 in MAX plan has 1 million tokens context window
• Opus 4.8 in MAX plan has "Ultracode" mode which allows you to make workflows and use parallel agents to do a multiple work

It has a lot of customizable settings and I'm very happy with this AI after the Copilot ruined itself with this outrageous pricing policy.

[zsoltbito]

then I guessed right, I think it's a plugin bug, do you know of any other IDE where this bug doesn't occur, I wouldn't like to switch because of a faulty editor, but I don't dare subscribe to the max, 2.9x+ included usage than Pro+, a bug and max 6 days?

[firasrg]

We are cooked