📈GitHub Copilot Flips To Usage-Based Billing, Token Meter Starts Now
TL;DR
GitHub Copilot switched every paid plan to AI Credit metering on June 1. Code completions stay unlimited, but chat, agents and model calls now burn tokens at API rates.
GitHub Copilot switched every paid plan to AI Credit metering on June 1. Code completions stay unlimited, but chat, agents and model calls now burn tokens at API rates. Pro stays $10/mo with $10 in credits; Pro+ is $39 with $39 in credits.
Key Points
1 AI Credit = $0.01; usage is metered by input, output and cached tokens at each model's API rate
Copilot Pro: $10/mo + $10 credits; Pro+: $39/mo + $39 credits; Business: $19/seat + $19 credits; Enterprise: $39/seat + $39 credits
Code completions and Next Edit Suggestions stay unlimited and unmetered for paid users
Business and Enterprise customers get pooled credits across the org plus budget caps at user, cost center and enterprise levels
Annual Pro/Pro+ plans keep premium-request pricing until renewal — only monthly seats migrate today
Why It Matters
Heavy agentic users will pay more for the same work, and engineering managers now need real budget telemetry — the era of 'flat-fee AI coding' is over for any team using Copilot beyond autocomplete.
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Why does this matter?
Heavy agentic users will pay more for the same work, and engineering managers now need real budget telemetry — the era of 'flat-fee AI coding' is over for any team using Copilot beyond autocomplete.
What happened?
GitHub Copilot switched every paid plan to AI Credit metering on June 1. Code completions stay unlimited, but chat, agents and model calls now burn tokens at API rates.
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