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by speedgoose9 hours ago |
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upvoteby Someone12349 hours ago|
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Yep, and I just made a recommendation that was essentially "never enable Opus 4.7" to my org as a direct result. We have Opus 4.6 (3x) and Opus 4.5 (3x) enabled currently. They are worth it for planning.

At 7.5x for 4.7, heck no. It isn't even clear it is an upgrade over Opus 4.6.

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upvoteby chewz7 hours ago|
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7.5 is promotional rate, it will go up to 25. And in May you will be switched to per token billing.

Opus 4.5 and 4.6 will be removed very soon.

So what is your contingency plan?

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upvoteby carlinm6 hours ago|
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Are you saying github copilot is switching to a per token billing model? If so, you have a link to that?
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upvoteby Someone12346 hours ago|
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Can you link to a source for anything you're claiming?
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upvoteby slopinthebag6 hours ago|
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https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-16-claude-opus-4-7-is-...

> Over the coming weeks, Opus 4.7 will replace Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6 in the model picker for Copilot Pro+.

> This model is launching with a 7.5× premium request multiplier as part of promotional pricing until April 30th

TBF, it's a rumour that they are switching to per-token price in May, but it's from an insider (apparently), and seeing how good of a deal the current per-request pricing is, everyone expects them to bump prices sometime soon or switch to per-token pricing.

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upvoteby phainopepla24 hours ago|
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The per-request pricing is ridiculous (in a good way, for the user). You can get so much done on a single prompt if you build the right workflow. I'm sure they'll change it soon
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upvoteby p1necone3 hours ago|
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Yeah it seems insane that it's priced this way to me too. Using sonnet/opus through a ~$40 a month copilot plan gives me at least an order of magnitude more usage than a ~$40 a month claude code plan (the usage limits on the latter are so low that it's effectively not a viable choice, at least for my use cases).

The models are limited to 160k token context length but in practice that's not a big deal.

Unless MS has a very favourable contract with Anthropic or they're running the models on their own hardware there's no way they're making money on this.

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upvoteby slopinthebag2 hours ago|
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Yeah, you can even write your own harness that spawns subagents for free, and get essentially free opus calls too. Insane value, I'm not at all surprised they're making changes. Oh well. It was a pain in the ass to use Copilot since it had a slightly different protocol and oauth so it wasn't supported in a lot of tools, now I'm going to go with Ollama cloud probably, which is supported by pretty much everything.
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upvoteby GaryBluto8 hours ago|
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Microsoft are going to be removing Opus 4.5 and 4.6 from Copilot soon so I'd enjoy the lower cost while it lasts.
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upvoteby bwat499 hours ago|
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in copilot I find it hard to justify using opus at even 3x vs just using GPT 5.4 high at 1x
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upvoteby d01006 hours ago|
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I went from plan with opus, implement with claude, to simply plan and implement with GPT 5.4

It's a very good model for a very good price

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upvoteby solenoid09377 hours ago|
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I don't know how you guys are not seeing 4.7 as an upgrade, it just does so much more, so much better. I guess lower complexity tasks are saturated though.
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upvoteby _puk6 hours ago|
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Anecdotally, been leaning on 4.6 heavily, and today 4.7 hallucinated on some agentic research it was doing. Not seen it do that before.

When pushed it did the 'ol "whoopsie, silly me"; turned out the hallucination had been flagged by the agent and ignored by Opus.

Makes it hard to trust it, which sucks as it's a heavy part of my workflow.

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upvoteby Aurornis4 hours ago|
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This article is only about the tokenizer. It doesn't measure the number of tokens needed for each request, which could be higher or lower overall.
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upvoteby aulin6 hours ago|
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Opus 4.6 also just got dumber. It's dismissive, hand-wavy, jumps to conclusions way too quickly, skips reasoning... Bubble is going to burst, either some big breakthrough comes up or we are going to see a very fast enshittificafion.
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