Is this what you expected? A price increase by a factor of 5?

[crackwitz]

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Copilot Agent Mode

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Hear me out.

I'm on the Student plan. That used to be 300 premium requests for a value of $10 (gratis, obviously), mirroring the lowest standard plan.

I just made two requests, within VSCode in Agent mode, that Auto selection assigned to GPT-5.4 mini. That would previously have been two times 0.33 premium requests. I'll disregard the 10% discount for Auto for now.

Those two requests just cost me 12.6 credits. For context, it might have consumed ~32 kB of files (javascript, HTML) and two moderately detailed prompts. It produced ~4 kB of javascript.

The Student plan gives me 200 credits this month.

If I am to assume that the $10 plan also gets 200 credits this month, then what USED TO cost (0.7 / 300) * $10 = $0.0233 now costs (12.6 / 200) * $10 = $0.6300.

That is a factor of 27 difference.

Even if you decided to give students 200 credits worth $2 ($10 being 1000 credits, as promised), we're still at a factor of 5.4.

Is this really the new value proposition?

I asked Google about this (you refused to say!). It said you cut the student plan to a value of $2. I'll continue with that in mind.

Your plans and pricing no longer states what amount of credits a paying customer would receive. Is this really the level of intransparency you want to inflict on your customers?

You are forcing me to shop around. I am speaking as someone who liked what (and how much) I got out of the student plan. It was perfect to get to know the technology in an academic context. I was fully prepared to pay the $10-40 to take it out of academic use and into professional commercial use.

Now I'm planning to use OTHER services instead.

I asked Google to compare your stated model costs to raw API prices (resale/regular customers, not wholesale). At least that appears to match.

Assuming you are charging customers at the true token cost now, that would mean you previously gave us a service for 20% of the actual cost. That is lunacy.

OK, now on to improvement suggestions:

• In the chat prompt, show what the request will cost. You can estimate that perfectly, as the user drafts it.
• You cannot estimate what token costs the model will incur as it's invoking tools and whatnot. at least slap a label each of those showing the cost of each of those invocations.

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[ravindranathw]

Ya need a way to plan usage else this is crazy. Also should introduce mini models just for day today coding