You've reached Copilot monthly limit... But I've provided my own OpenAI API key

[Philosoph228]

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So I using Copilot Agent in Visual Studio. And just now i can't use the agent.
I am NOT using and don't want to use Copilot models. I've provided my own OpenAI API key and want to use my paid OpenAI models.
Why I can't do that? Why it blocks me with message:

You've reached your monthly limit of chat on the Copilot Free Plan. Upgrade now

But I am not using Copilot Models, I am using OpenAI ones directly.

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[Philosoph228]

This has stalled my workflow and that is frustrating. I missing several days or so. I have a milestone deadline until the end of the month.
It will be difficult, but if the problem persists I'm considering migrating the project to other IDEs and tools.

[acozy03]

I ran into the same problem a few months back, then switched from copilot entirely. To which I could only assume this is what was happening:

From the documentation:
"If you use Copilot Free, your plan comes with up to 2,000 code completion requests and up to 50 premium requests per month. All chat interactions count as premium requests."

Meaning that any time you use the chat feature, regardless of BYOK, it still counts as usage since you are using their feature. I would consider migrating honestly, there are a ton of other tools and IDEs out there with generous free plans.

[crlang44]

I'm also going to migrate away, this is very frustrating

[qcdesign]

Same, refuse to pay when I'm using my own local ollama models. this is ridiculous. Going to migrate away from github as well and self host my git projects out of principle at this rate! MicroSh!te