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simonwyesterday at 4:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

Windsurf made a similar change in March: https://docs.windsurf.com/windsurf/accounts/quota

> In March 2026, Windsurf replaced the credit-based system with a quota-based usage system. Instead of buying and spending credits, your plan now includes a daily and weekly usage allowance that refreshes automatically.

With hindsight, per-request pricing makes no sense at all if an agent can burn a widely varying amount of tokens satisfying that request. These pricing plans were designed before coding agents changed the dynamics of token usage.


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Incipientyesterday at 4:54 PM

I wouldn't call it hindsight - I don't think anyone, at any stage, thought running a 10 minute+ sonnet session for 1 premium credit was ever profitable. We all knew it was a loss leader to get people using it.

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Lihh27yesterday at 5:14 PM

per-request was broken, yeah. but $10 of monthly credits is basically just a prepaid wallet with a reset timer.