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The price hike was insane. My $dayjob is moving away from Copilot and into Claude Code subscriptions. In parallel we are testing AWS bedrock and Deepinfra for open weight models in preparation for when CC inevitably stops being such a good deal and aligns with actual token cost. Fun times.

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I had to do the same. I expect everything will go token pricing, and at that point a LOT of small/mid businesses will drastically change how they use code.

I've swapped to the 20x Claude plan for a month or two to knock out two ideas I need to get it MVP - expecting Claude to go token priced soon.

Hell it’s past small and mid. I do work for a few of the fortune 100s and what I’m hearing is somewhere between “justify all of your usage or don’t use it” to “you now get 500 bucks a month, go over that and you’re getting it revoked”

The price hike was insane yes, but because they were eating the price difference. How exaclty does moving to a Claude sub is better, when it's actually more expensive ?

At my company we did the comparison and Copilot still wins: for 20$ you get a seat and 20$ of usage, whereas with Claude enterprise you get a seat and then usage is completely added. Moreover usage in Copilot is exactly the price of the providers AND it allows us to use various models from multiple providers.

The case that might be less expensive is if you negociate a volume discount with AWS for Bedrock usage, but that is also possible with GitHub and Microsoft.

Last month we consumed all the subscription credits by the 7th day, and had to top the extra credits up every 2-3 days. Last month was definitely not cheaper than a CC subscription. It actually triggered a cost savings effort across the Engineering org (cancelling subscriptions, stopping environments,...) in order to be able to afford AI usage which was not appropriately budgeted for ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: wording on the cost saving effort

> Last month was definitely not cheaper than a CC subscription.

How is that possible? AFAIK copilot charges the same price per token that claude does. They don't offer fixed price subscriptions to enterprise customers (again AFAIK but even if they did presumably they would match the price).

The only exception I'm aware of is volume discounts and you can get those from both copilot and bedrock (and presumably also vertex).

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