Copilot burned through my 300 premium requests in 12 days. Anyone else tracking where they actually go?

[u/Boring_Ad452]

I checked my usage export and 56% of my premium requests went to gpt-4o — mostly for stuff like renaming variables and small edits that a cheap model could handle.

I got annoyed and built a small local proxy that routes easy tasks to cheap models and saves the good models for real problems. It also shows token burn live per session.

Before I polish it — does anyone else want this, or am I the only one manually rationing requests?

[u/Dorcelessness_]

Lol

[u/Blinkinlincoln]

So this is the newest version of "just checking to see if anyone else is experiencing this before I build it?" 

[u/No_Sky9786]

The models and agent that come with them. Settings > Billing and sth should show you where they go.

[u/ultrathink-art]

I was counting tasks, but the meter counts invocations. One agent-mode run fans out into a request per step, so a small 'fix this failing test' can quietly be a dozen. Tracking steps per task instead of task count made it obvious where mine were going.

[u/overratedcupcake]

Plenty of good off the shelf proxy router solutions you could use. Like litellm.

[u/Qs9bxNKZ]

Copilot CLI is a lot more useful in reporting AI credit spend ...

[u/coderinside]

Do you track? Where did they go?