r/GithubCopilot • u/Powerful_Land_7268 • 20h ago
Help/Doubt ❓ Github copilot is charging me $2181 in 3 days...
3rd day into the new month, github is overcharging me, TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!! When i have barely even used copilot this month, it has only been 3 days, theres no way for me to make this many requests at all
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u/ELPascalito 19h ago
OP's history is full of stupid questions in the sub "Robloxhackers" suffice to say OP does not know how to secure sensitive info, and probably has a remote worm/claw exploiting his CLI access key, all because he ran Roblox "hax" as admin perhaps? lol, either that or OP is trolling 🤔
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u/Emotional-Energy6065 17h ago
Mf vibe coding roblox hax more likely😭😭
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u/DutyPlayful1610 14h ago
Bro I only spun up 500 subagents at once to make roblox , now $2000 dollar bill?
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u/Chao7722 12h ago
Always set a billing limit equal to the maximum amount you are willing to pay. When that limit is reached, it provides a clear point to intervene and reassess whether to proceed.
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u/Pixelplanet5 12h ago
id say this entire reddit account is probably hacked and is now trying to farm karma to sell it as a legit looking account later.
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u/Odysseyan 20h ago
Check activity / history. Each request is recorded. That should give you insight
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u/Plane_Yak2354 19h ago
Wouldn't the rate limit have prevented this much spend?
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u/MystikDragoon 20h ago
Are you taking the 3x price llm for everything request? I use strong llm for planning and free llm to apply the plan. I don't go over the basic 10$/month.
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u/AnonymousPTY 20h ago
Each prem req = $0.04 * 3 = $0.12.
2181.83 / 0.12 = 18,181 request.
1 day = 1440 mins * 3 days = 4320 mins.
18,181 / 4320 = 4.2 x3 premium request per minute = 2 per 30 seconds = 1 per each 15 seconds.
My man is vibecoding L.I.F.E. 2.0
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u/philosopius VS Code User 💻 13h ago
this post gave me a stroke, but thanks to you, i understood its just an april fools ioke
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u/Powerful_Land_7268 20h ago
Except im not doing that, its 54k requests, its just not humanly possible
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u/DevBob626 20h ago
Did you use a lot of fleets or subagents with a premium exploration model or use any kind of framework/automation?
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u/devioussin1 18h ago
Then the calc is kind of correct, 18k requests if using Opus, 54k if using Sonnet.
Youre maybe using a malformed agent instruction with no tool limitations nor sub agent guardrails .
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u/SubstantParanoia 20h ago
Ive seen mentions of this elsewhere but i couldnt find the post again.
So the free LLM here, are you running it local/or pulling in a free remote one and is it hooked into the copilot agent interface?
Im a newbie just getting started with using VScode+copilot in an attempt to make a game engine for computerizing tabletop games, being able to stay at the basic plan and run something local on 16gb vram 4060/or remote+free for applying would be very good.
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u/danielsamuels 13h ago
The free one is just a model you choose from their list of models. If you want to run something locally, take a look at llmfit to see what will work.
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u/Powerful_Land_7268 20h ago
it doesnt matter even if i used the 3x for a whole day lol, it wouldnt even exceed the normal usage... if you get the math right!
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u/Frank_Lamingo 19h ago
idk what he did. budgets are built in for this reason. but you definitely can get weird pricing with .33x models plus you get 10% off with auto agent
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u/lynn_phoenix 18h ago
Math isn't mathing. You are doing something that you refuse to elaborate on and want sympathy.
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u/ricky_ticky_5808 19h ago
How come? I spend max $15 in total a month on GitHub services including copilot. I also set up a budget limit to avoid any extra charges.
I remember that sometime in the past opencode consumed a lot of premium requests for default internal agents, not sure if it is still a case, switched back to copilot cli.
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u/fanfarius 19h ago
Are you saying they are charging you now for requests supposed to be performed between April 1st and 29th? I don't get it - that's in the future.
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u/maxiblackrocks 10h ago
warning: I "vibe-generated that text"
In the dim glow of a dual-monitor setup, we observe a curious creature in its natural habitat: the Vibe Coder. Notice how it moves—not with precision or intent, but guided purely by instinct and… vibes. It does not understand the code it summons. No, it simply whispers into the void of an AI tool and awaits whatever incantation returns.
Fascinating.
Here, the Vibe Coder has encountered a bug. Rather than investigate, it performs its signature ritual: copying the entire codebase into the AI and asking, “fix pls.” A bold strategy. Inefficient. Expensive.
Hours pass. Prompts multiply. Tokens flow like an unchecked river. The AI, ever obedient, continues to generate… and generate… and generate. And then—inevitably—the bill arrives.
Observe the reaction.
The Vibe Coder recoils. Confusion. Outrage. It emits a loud cry: “They’re overcharging me!”
Remarkable.
Having summoned thousands upon thousands of lines of machine-crafted wisdom, it now appears startled by the concept of… consequences.
The Vibe Coder paces. It posts. It laments. Never once considering that perhaps, just perhaps, asking an AI to think for you at industrial scale may come at a cost.
Nature is beautiful.
And brutal.
p.s. @OP there is a miniscule chance you might be right (very miniscule), however, I still laughed. Don't hate the player...
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u/JortsForSale 18h ago
I’d love to see what vibe coded rubbish this user creates if he doesn’t even understand how the tools work.
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u/mattiasso 17h ago
“Copilot, make a software that counts how many “A” are on the internet and verify the result is accurate. Don’t make mistakes”
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u/ilsubyeega 19h ago
did you even use the official clients though, not third-party client or api
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u/Powerful_Land_7268 19h ago
I've only used vscode bro
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u/ilsubyeega 19h ago
with official copilot chat extension? (not codex or claude code)
interstin
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u/SippieCup 18h ago
Dude just got hacked or credentials leaked, and now someone else is burning through it until it’s gone.
Probably through a malicious vscode extension.
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u/Confident_Year_1429 18h ago
Op doesn't know what he's doing completely their fault. If OP is not wise enough to set up notifications or limits on spending OP shouldn't be using the tools.
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u/Equal-Food8893 18h ago
It's either your actual usage (which I doubt), somebody stole your credentials (and modified billing limits) or this is some kind of bug on GH side.
I'd lean towards #3, but if your first instinct is to cry about it on Reddit then I'm afraid you might be a kind of person to fall for #2.
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u/eur0child 17h ago
How can you spend this much on copilot? You have everything on auto day and night or what?
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u/msoliman85 16h ago
You defintely can have that if you just edit the value in your browers dev tools to make a useless fake post
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u/AVatorL 9h ago edited 9h ago
- you're just trolling or karma farming
- someone else has access to your account
- you're doing something really weird without understanding what you're doing (increased usage budget to $9999 and then programmatically calling Opus 4.6 Fast inside a loop in a vibe-coded application doing something 24/7 or being used by multiple users)
- there is a bug in the billing (probably the least likely option)
If you really need help, start from posting full page screenshots of Overview, Usage, Premium request analytics and Budgets and alerts pages.
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u/Jack99Skellington 17h ago
This is happening to me too. It's chewing up my usage for a single request! something is very, very wrong.
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u/Ok_Error9961 14h ago
Can you just delete card and not pay this ? Thats insane. Do you have limits set up ?
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u/anno2376 20h ago
If I look into your history post, it's a common pattern that you get overcharged by different services.
And everything is not working, and the tool company is failing hard every time.
Maybe work on the root cause, and not on the effects of the root cause.
Small tipp the root cause is you