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cbdevidal | on: Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
I’ve been quite content with CoPilot’s $10/mo plan. Still offers access to Claude models (limited tokens) but has no time limits like the $20 Claude plan, so no interruptions in work flow. I use one of the free models for the more pedestrian tasks then sic Claude on the particularly thorny problems. Works very well for me.
mellosouls | parent | next
I'm not sure if you are referring to the old or new plan?

Github Copilot offered probably the best value and was IMO underappreciated for a long time; I've been an annual subscriber since day 1.

The changes announced a few days ago completely revoke that value proposition, I doubt I'll continue with it.

cbdevidal | root | parent
There’s a new plan? Ugh. I signed up about five months ago.
mellosouls | root | parent
Yes, unfortunately. eg. discussions below - I think I have seen multipliers of 9x cost to existing use cases:

Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838508

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923357

Multipliers for annual subscribers:

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing...

cbdevidal | root | parent
Thanks for the heads up. I had a brainstorming session with Gemini about this (I can’t believe I just typed that sentence lol) and the plan is to switch to two local LLMs; a lightweight, fast 3B model for autocomplete, and a slower 14B model for chat sessions. Then I can switch to a DeepSeek Premium API key for the really tough stuff. It recommended the Continue plugin for VSCode.

When I am away from home I’ll run autossh on my dinosaur road laptop (which probably has 8MB video RAM lol) to connect to the home PC’s LLMs. Gemini assured me that this should run well over my intermittent cellular connection.

You just saved me some headache and money :-D

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cbdevidal | parent
Can even buy more premium tokens for more Claude use, which I have done once. But most of the time the tokens included in the plan are sufficient.