GitHub Copilot Pricing Change to Rate Limits
2 videos · score: 4,762 · first seen Jun 14, 2026
GitHub Copilot’s pricing shift from fixed monthly message caps to rate limits—mirroring Claude Code and Codex—has sparked outrage, with creator Theo (t3․gg) calling the old model 'so broken' that he’s deliberately burning $40,000 in inference costs to prove it’s easily abusable, while OpenAI touts Codex’s new collaborative app-building as a more functional alternative, fueling debate over whether the change fixes exploitation or stifles genuine users.
Build and share apps in Codex
Codex launched the ability to build and share apps, with the creator framing it as a move to make the platform more collaborative and functional for developers.
Spending $40,000 in Copilot for $40
A comped GitHub Copilot Plus user is deliberately generating up to $40,000 in inference costs to expose the current plan's abuse vulnerability ahead of a pricing model shift to rate limits.