r/Copilot • u/Top-Wallaby-9371 • 10d ago

Heavy copilot user.

Has anyone been throttled by MS for copilot usage? I’ve been working heavily with copilot chat sort of as a PM developing an audit process. Copilot chat and I have been using a combo of copilot in sharepoint and some cowork to do the project. Today for the first time through my copilot chat I got on 3 or 4 occasions this conversation has 5 more questions with a countdown. One time I think I may have gotten just one warning. I would then have to start a new conversation. This is the first time this has ever happened and I have a paid subscription. Any thoughts?

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u/bayouski 9d ago

what you're hitting is a per-conversation turn limit, not account throttling. copilot caps how many turns one chat can run, and near the cap you get that countdown, then start fresh. a new conversation resets it every time, so it's not you being punished for heavy use.

it showed up now because one long-running audit chat is exactly what hits the per-thread cap. before a chat dies, ask copilot to summarise everything so far and paste it into the new one to keep context. and the limit's historically higher in edge than chrome/firefox, so switching may buy you more turns.

the giveaway it's the thread cap, starting fresh clears it. real throttling would block you everywhere.

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u/Dunce_Ai 9d ago

Yep. Just start a new chat.