alt Hacker NewsI've had single prompt to Opus consume as many as 13 premium messages. The Copilot harness is so gimped so they can abstract tokens from messages. Every person that started with Copilot that I know that tried CC were amazed at the power difference. Stepping out of a golf cart and into <your favorite fast car>.
It hasn't done that to me. It's worked according to their docs:
> Copilot Chat uses one premium request per user prompt, multiplied by the model's rate.
> Each prompt to Copilot CLI uses one premium request with the default model. For other models, this is multiplied by the model's rate.
> Copilot coding agent uses one premium request per session, multiplied by the model's rate. A session begins when you ask Copilot to create a pull request or make one or more changes to an existing pull request.
https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/billing/copilot-...