GitHub Copilot

Day nine. 61% gone.

The tier you choose sets the cost.

What you'll learn

What a 400,000-token month means per day
Why an agent thread with files pinned is so expensive
How to route a task to the cheapest tier that can do it

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19,000 a day

400,000 tokens over 21 working days is about 19,000 a day.

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These are built for a phone

Every short is drawn at full portrait height, the shape a phone already is. Installed, it opens full-bleed with no address bar across the top — and the whole library reads offline.

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