In April, GitHub announced that it was moving subscribers from request-based billing to a usage-based model for its ...

The new system will charge users based on how much the AI does, rather than how many requests they make, and some users are finding their bills jumping by 10x or more.

Usage of the company's Copilot AI coding tool surged after GitHub changed how it bills customers, the executive said.

Microsoft shifts GitHub Copilot to usage-based pricing, replacing subscriptions with AI credits, making costs depend on how much developers use AI features and compute power.

The golden age of Microsoft’s Github Copilot appears to be at an end — for the little guy, at least. The company is switching its billing system from a flat subscription rate to a token-usage system ...

GitHub Copilot switched to token-based billing on June 1, 2026. Some developers report monthly costs jumping from $29 to $750 as AI Credits replace unlimited-style usage.

VS Code 1.125 adds in-editor visibility into additional Copilot budget usage as GitHub's AI-credit billing model continues to draw developer scrutiny.

Microsoft’s recently announced MAI-Code-1-Flash model is now generally available to GitHub Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise customers. With this support, organizations can have more centralized ...

GitHub is removing the ability to manually select an AI model from its Copilot Free and Student plans, making its automatic routing system the default and only way to choose a model. This means users ...

We went through something similar at work a few months ago with Cursor. My boss is all in on AI coding. And frankly its becoming indispensable annoyingly quickly. But you cant be naive about usage. He ...