GitHub Copilot and OpenCode Go Both Cost $10/Month — The Difference Is What You Get

On June 1, 2026, GitHub Copilot Pro switched to token-based billing. The subscription price stayed the same — $10/month. What changed is what that $10 buys. Under the old model: a fixed pool of premium requests, predictable, no surprises. Under the new model: $10 in AI Credits. One credit = $0.01. One agentic coding session = $30–40. That’s your entire monthly budget gone in a single afternoon.

OpenCode Go also costs $10/month. Here’s what $10 actually buys on each platform — and why the math matters for anyone still paying per token.

$10 on Copilot Pro vs $10 on OpenCode Go

The math is brutal for Copilot. A developer who uses the agent feature three times a week hits $360–480/month in token costs on top of the $10 subscription. OpenCode Go is $10 flat. No surprise invoices, no credit anxiety, no spreadsheet tracking.

OpenCode Go Request Limits per Model (per 5 hours)

This is the screenshot that made the switch obvious:

The default setup: DeepSeek V4 Pro for anything that needs real reasoning (80.6% on SWE-bench Verified), Flash for mechanical tasks. 3,450 requests per 5-hour window covers a full heavy coding day with room to spare. That’s not a premium tier — that’s the standard $10/month plan.

What the Switch Actually Looks Like

OpenCode is a terminal agent — not a background autocomplete. You describe a task, it reads your codebase, plans, writes, iterates. For multi-file refactors, bug hunting across modules, generating test suites — this is where it shines. The workflow is closer to pair programming than to autocomplete.

For inline completions, Supermaven (free tier) fills the gap. It’s not Copilot-quality, but it’s good enough that the friction disappears after a few days. The tradeoff is clear: lose native IDE integration, gain unlimited agentic sessions and full model choice.

What’s better than Copilot: cost predictability, model choice, no lock-in, no token anxiety. What’s worse: no native IDE integration, inline completions are a step down, terminal context-switch adds friction for some workflows.

Who Should Switch

Good fit if Copilot is used mainly for agentic tasks — writing features, refactoring modules, debugging across files. OpenCode handles all of that at a fraction of the real post-June-1 cost. The math works for anyone doing more than a handful of agent sessions per week.

Not a great fit if inline completions are the primary workflow. The terminal context-switch adds friction that some developers won’t tolerate, especially in fast-paced editing sessions where every keystroke matters.

The first month of OpenCode Go is $5. Cheap enough to test alongside whatever tool is currently in use. The real test is whether the workflow adapts — and whether the cost savings justify the adjustment period.

Have you switched away from Copilot since June 1? What’s working? Drop a comment below.