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Interestingly github-copilot is charging 2.5x as much for opus 4.7 prompts as they charged for opus 4.6 prompts (7.5x instead of 3x). And they're calling this "promotional pricing" which sounds a lot like they're planning to go even higher.

Note they charge per-prompt and not per-token so this might in part be an expectation of more tokens per prompt.

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-16-claude-opus-4-7-is-...

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Copilot's per-prompt pricing is crazy unsustainable. I doubt even a 2.5x increase is enough. I've had a couple of times where I've kept Copilot/Opus 4.6 occupied for a full day on a single prompt recently.

> Opus 4.7 will replace Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6

Promotional pricing that will probably be 9x when promotion ends, and soon to be the only Opus option on github, that's insane

Not only is it 7x on requests, reasoning is locked to medium. Have been with Copilot for the fair and transparent pricing, but reconsidering that now.

Not that anybody can actually use it though, as a large percentage of Copilot users are facing seemingly random multi-day rate limits.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/github_copilot_rate_l...

I don’t know about rate limits, but I’ve been running into timeouts with Sonnet 4.6 after they don’t complete within 4-5 mins.

I have not encountered the same issues when using Claude Code.

Perhaps Copilot is on some sort of second rate priority.

Of course it’s the only thing available in our Enterprise, making us second class users.

Using the Copilot Business Plan we get the same rate limits as the student tier, making it infeasible to use Opus. Meanwhile management talks about their big plans for AI.

With cursor it's half off right now.

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