This new Copilot billing system is absolutely ridiculous.
We are paying for a business plan, not buying a tiny prepaid token card that disappears after half a day of normal development. This is supposed to be a professional developer productivity product, but right now it feels like a metered billing trap disguised as a subscription.
A few normal coding tasks should not burn through a huge percentage of the monthly allowance. A code review should not destroy the plan. An agent request should not feel like gambling with credits. A business user should not have to constantly watch a usage meter like a taxi meter while trying to write code.
This is completely backwards.
Copilot trained users to rely on agentic workflows, multi-file edits, code review, chat, planning, and implementation help. Then GitHub changed the billing model in a way that makes those exact workflows financially painful to use. That is not innovation. That is taking the product people adopted and making it worse overnight.
If GitHub wants to charge by tokens, then show the cost before the task runs. Show the estimated credits. Show the model cost clearly. Show what a normal day of development will cost. Show what a PR review will cost. Show what an agent task will cost. Do not hide behind vague dots, vague model labels, and post-task credit burn.
For business users, this is especially unacceptable. We need predictable costs. We need stable budgeting. We need to know whether a tool can actually support daily engineering work. If a monthly business plan can be burned in a few hours, then it is not a real business plan.
This feels like a massive price hike disguised as a technical billing update.
If the old system was too generous, then say that. If GitHub was subsidizing usage, then say that. But do not pretend this is just a normal improvement. The practical value of the subscription has collapsed. What used to feel like a usable monthly plan now feels like a small wallet that gets drained by a few requests.
At this point, why should any serious developer or business continue paying for Copilot Business instead of using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, or direct API access?
The integration is not enough to justify this level of unpredictability. The convenience is not enough to justify burning through credits this fast. The product is not worth it if users have to constantly avoid using its most useful features because they are afraid of the usage meter.
This needs to be fixed immediately.
Either revert the billing change, massively increase the included credits, or provide a real unlimited/predictable professional plan. Otherwise Copilot Business is no longer viable for real development teams.
Right now, this does not feel like a productivity tool.
It feels like GitHub took a product developers trusted and turned it into a credit-burning machine.