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New copilot pricing just dropped, takes effect after June 1:
Some highlights for copilot pro and pro+:
Jeez that pricing scheme is so confusing. You swap your dollars for credits and then using models to burn tokens consumes some multiple of those credits. It is so abstract and meaningless it almost reminds me of crypto.
Once usage billing kicks in, what value does copilot offer above and beyond what ClosedAI and MisAnthropic offer directly? A more clunky user experience and even worse reliability? Bargain!
cost multiplier?
Apparently, you buy some currency type thing called AI Units and this is the rate the different LLMs consume them. The multipliers used to represent requests I think, i.e. times you triggered inference, but ai units are a proxy for token burn in a somewhat vague way, which makes me think there will be rate limit related controversies similar to what's now happening with anthropic.
Existing enterprise users will get double the AIUs for three months to ease them to the new pricing model, so autumn (when the enterprise AIU pools get effectively halved) is gonna be fun.
This gives me very high live service video game monetization feelings, another reason to stay far away from it. At least they don't have the thing where every times costs multiples of 50 and you buy tokens amounts not divisible by 50.
Bingo