Yeah, what's the surprise here? Turns out it's expensive.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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Microsoft was deceptive here and never made it clear exactly what sort of deal you were getting with the flat rate. There was no indication of the actual magnitude.
It was very much a red flag when they shut down signups.
Yeah especially because they now have some convoluted method involving different counts of processing, cache etc. But the developer has no easy way of seeing those statistics and thus has no feel for them. And developers already have little control over how much tokens a task takes. Which was fine with the flat rate, just use the service. But now that those things actually matter, the stats should be way easier to see?
So in typical Microsoft fashion not only did they raise prices they somehow made it even more shit. Like the AI already sucked, but does the service itself need to suck as well?
Not being able to control and very vague productivity improvement claims makes the ROI impossible to calculate. So even if the AI wasn't shit, it would still be hard to figure out if it's even helping at all.
different counts of processing, cache etc
Don't all the providers do this, though? Anthropic/Claude has different pricing based on if you're caching for five mins vs one hour (which are the only two options for cache TTL). https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing
Man, enshittification is happening so fast for ai. Imagine the next big thing. It'll be enshittified prior to release.
As a mod for the Enshitification you hate to see Enshitification in any form.
As a mod of Fuck_AI, I'll make an exception in this one case.
COMMENCE THE ENSHITIFICATION!!!!
Which completely goes against my Enshitification mod mindset, but here we are.
So....nobody told me life was going to be this way.....
clap-clap-clap-clap
~~GitHub~~ Microsoft just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day
They switched from heavily subsidizing it, to subsidizing it less. That's going to happen with the other providers, too.
yes but continue to use the github brand because we need to remind folks that github blows
Watching github news from my codeberg safe place 😎🍿🍺
Now suddenly everyone will care how horrible it is when you have to pay for said garage.
I'm not sure why anyone is surprised. The new pricing is closer to what it actually costs to provide the service.
They can't keep subsidizing AI forever. The same thing is going to happen to other providers too.
Maybe that guy in the black leather jacket can pay for everybody’s credits. Y’know, extend and embrace the grift.
Just trying to squeeze it out before the pop.
I guess they are starting to feel the strain of hemorrhaging billions of dollars for data centers.
They're figuring if AI is not deeply embeded and people totally addicted to using it by now it's not ever going to happen, so it's time to let the trap shut and see what they caught.
And yet stock prices SOAR!
My Microsoft stock has not soared. :(
Ha ha! Thats what you get for supporting them financially.
The market is insane. The valuations for stocks connected in any way to "AI" have no connection to reality whatsoever.
You just described the entire stock market since the dawn of currency.
AI is just the newest buzzword.
anthropic started charging a higher token droven method for api access. copilot use the api to talk to claude.
at build theybwere lushing local models with nvidias new chip and that chip is objectively amazing.
Good.
The faster slop code stops, the more reliable our software will get.
Weird, I'm not having this problem.
Just wait until OpenAI and Anthropic get their IPO and the front slowly falls off. A recession will happen shortly thereafter.
That’s why they build the data centers outside of the environment.
This is why the push to subsidize these AI companies and data centers with your taxpayer money is dumb, when ultimately they'll use them against you. If anything though they need to be making consumer AI cheaper. Manufacturers are engaging in antitrust activities and they need to be held accountable.
Lol, sucks to suck.