GitHub Copilot Adjusts Pricing and Introduces Premium AI Model Access

GitHub Copilot updates its service with new premium AI model access, introducing rate limits and additional charges for advanced features.

Big news for coders relying on GitHub Copilot—Microsoft’s GitHub is shaking things up with its AI-powered coding sidekick. Come May 5, the party’s getting a bit more exclusive, with new limits and costs for those eyeing the ‘premium’ AI models beyond the basic deal. 🚀

If you’re shelling out $20 a month for Copilot Pro, you’ll get 300 premium requests to play with each month. The big shots on Copilot Business and Enterprise? They’re looking at 300 and 1,000 requests, respectively, with the changes rolling out between May 12 and May 19. Need more? You can either cough up $0.04 per extra request or jump on the Copilot Pro+ bandwagon at $39 a month, which throws in 1,500 premium requests and the keys to the kingdom with top-tier models like OpenAI’s GPT-4.5. 💳

Why the shake-up? Blame it on the high-maintenance AI models like Anthropic’s 3.7 Sonnet—these brainy beasts eat up computational resources like there’s no tomorrow, but hey, they’re worth it for that extra reliability. Even with these tweaks, GitHub Copilot is still printing money for Microsoft, proving to be a gold mine in GitHub’s revenue stream. 📈