April 24th news, earlier this weekMicrosoftThe announcement will be suspended GitHub Copilot The registration of new users of Pro, Pro+ and student food packages to serve existing clients more efficiently is an unexpected move. In addition, Microsoft announced a downward revision of the use of the personal package and removed the Claude Opus model from the Pro package。
Thanks to the upgrading of the AI model and its increased intelligence capabilities, GitHub Copilot has experienced a dramatic increase in usage over the past few months. This phenomenon is not unique to GitHub Copilot; in recent weeks, AI's current lead company in the programming field Anthropic Several new restrictions have also been introduced and reduced。
1AI notes that the subscription mode for the AI programming tool appears to have come to an end. Even for large AI companies such as Microsoft and Anthropic, the pricing model of $20-30 per month is not sustainable. Anthropic has launched a press for business clientsCharacter(token) The billing model, while GitHub Copilot is also adjusting in the same direction。
Ed Zitlan's column "Where's Your Ed At " confirms today that GitHub Copilot will be converted to a word charge from 1 June, and the official bulletin is expected to be released this week. Currently, GitHub Copilot users enjoy a fixed “request number” level based on subscription packages, such as 300 per month for Pro and 1,500 per month for Pro+。
The subsequent GitHub Copilot will no longer charge the “number of requests” to the actual cost of the entry and output words. For example, if the GPT-54 model is chosen, the developer will have to pay $2.50 per million input word and $15 per million output word。
Users still have to pay monthly subscriptions to use the GitHub Copilot platform, but no longer have a fixed number of advanced requests, but obtain a corresponding number of AI characters based on the level of subscription. The enterprise version GitHub Copilot users will receive a shared AI amount, which can be deployed centrally within the organization。
According to Ed Zitren, the GitHub Copilo Business client who pays $19 a month will receive a shared AI amount of $30 and a monthly fee of $39 will receive a shared AI amount of $70。