Expensive

[ganeshbmc]

One premium request for each prompt on paid plan is very expensive. Please make provisions for cheaper alternatives.

[rakotomandimby]

The default model used by GitHub Copilot CLI is Claude Sonnet 4. GitHub reserves the right to change this model.

You can change the model to GPT-5 by setting the COPILOT_MODEL environment variable to gpt-5.

[qazs10015]

Can I just use other model like gpt-5-mini? not gpt 5 or claude 4

[crivotz]

The default model used by GitHub Copilot CLI is Claude Sonnet 4. GitHub reserves the right to change this model.

You can change the model to GPT-5 by setting the COPILOT_MODEL environment variable to gpt-5.

gpt-5 always has 1 as a multiplier for premium requests. The same as Claude.
They should add gpt-4.

[UwUnyaa]

The fact that the choices in the CLI are restricted to premium models only, and even explicitly supplying a valid model I can use via other means sounds downright malicious.

[crivotz]

#32

[williammartin]

Closing in favour of #32 since that's the real solution to this, thanks for the feedback.