GitHub Copilot's Usage-Based Billing Lands Like a Brick

GitHub's switch from flat-rate Copilot to usage-based GitHub AI Credits took effect June 1: tokens billed at each model's API rates, no cheaper-model fallback, and code review eating Actions minutes on top of credits. Developers posted projections of bills going from $29 to ~$750/month; GitHub's defense is that flat pricing "was no longer sustainable" once agents became the default. Connect the dots with Altman's token-cost confession and Anthropic's June 15 billing split, and you get the month's real macro-story: agentic AI economics are forcing per-token pricing everywhere.

Sources: GitHub blog, TechCrunch ("what a joke")