Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent

I can see how pricing at 100 to 200$ per month per employee could make sense for companies, it’s a clear value proposition at that scale. But for personal projects and open source work, it feels out of reach. I’d really like to see more accessible pricing tiers for individuals and hobbyists. Pay per token models don’t work for me either; earlier this year, I racked up almost $1,000 in a month just experimenting with personal projects, and that experience has made me wary of using these tools since.

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Github Copilot has unlimited GPT-4.1 for $10/month.

And you can use it as an API, so you can plug it as an OpenAI compatible LLM provider into any 3rd party tool that uses AI, for free.

That's the only reason I subscribed to GitHub Copilot. Currently using it for Aider.

Say more. Is the API access unlimited? What models are available?