New Rate Limits!!?

[Sisamos]

🏷️ Discussion Type

Bug

💬 Feature/Topic Area

VS Code

Body

I'm hitting the user_weekly_rate_limited error in VS Code despite having a significant portion of my monthly premium requests remaining. I cannot open a new VS Code window without Copilot being blocked.

My situation:

• I have not exhausted my monthly premium request allowance
• The error is telling me to "upgrade my plan" — I am already on a paid plan
• There is no visible indicator anywhere showing how close I am to a weekly limit before I hit it
• The lockout lasts hours, making it impossible to do normal development work

Why this is unacceptable:
This is a hidden limit on top of the advertised monthly quota. I pay for a specific number of premium requests per month — that is what was sold to me. A separate, undisclosed weekly cap that blocks access entirely (across all models, including base models) is not what I agreed to.

GitHub acknowledged in discussion #190176 that the March 2026 rate limit changes "mistakenly impacted many users with normal and expected usage patterns." That problem is clearly still ongoing.

What I'm asking for:

1. Immediate transparency: publish the actual weekly/hourly limits per plan so users can see them before hitting them
2. A visible usage meter in VS Code for the weekly limit, just like the monthly one
3. Fix the lockout behavior so hitting a model-specific limit does not block access to all models
4. Compensation or credit for time lost during these lockouts on paid plans

I'm happy to provide logs or request IDs if helpful.

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[advicee12]

This is bs, i have pro+, and those rate limits are crazy, like with those rate limts and agents 1x use, there is no way you use half of monthly request. THis is some bullshit, i went from pro to pro+ to escape the limits. But you cant use more than 1-3% of 1x agents as you just get a stupid rate limit or weekly limit. LIke guys, normal pro was insane and had issue with using requests there due to rate limit, but pro+ is getting worse and worse...... Fix .....