Did Github tweek copilot ? Used 10% of premium request in 1hr.

[adithyapaib]

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I usually use GitHub Copilot's premium models on a regular basis, and they use approximately 0.1% or 0.2% of my premium request quota for those tasks. This morning, I used the premium model (Claude Sonnet 4.5), and I was surprised to see 10% of the quota used for a simple fix. I was like WT$. I often use 10% for a week. And today, 10% gone in under an hour. I highly doubt they have made any changes or reduced my quota. Did anyone notice the same?

Posted on reddit to check if It was only me,
Found multiple people with the same issue.

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[Mayureshju]

Yeah, I’m seeing the same thing today. Normally a premium Claude request only uses like 0.1%–0.3% of my quota, but suddenly it’s jumping to 5–10% per request. It doesn’t matter if the prompt is small either even simple fixes are getting counted as huge usage.

A bunch of people on Reddit are reporting the exact same spike, so it definitely doesn’t look like it’s just you. Seems like something changed on GitHub’s end or there’s a metering bug causing the system to miscount tokens.

This has happened before when they roll out updates - they usually fix it pretty quickly or restore the quota once the bug is resolved. So I’m pretty sure our actual quota didn’t change; the usage tracking is just acting weird today.

[ComplianceOne]

yes

[adithyapaib]

I am raising a ticket for the same

[Absiinator]

I'm seeing this in regards to rate limitings too. Seems to be linked to the token usage as well. And I don't even scratched the monthly usages. So they need to be clearly indicataing to users when a change is made regarding token counts and rate limitings.

[dstevens79]

I have a similar issue - i thought it was a bit excessive as this month started,
i do use copilot extensively in visual studio, but no different from month to month... and this month in 2 days i swallowed 20% of my credit in 2 days - as opposed to the normal 4-10%...

thats a little excessive and i know its the same amount of usage - something is different, or wrong.
This does need looking into.