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Yesterday morning, GitHub Copilot users got confirmation of something I’d reported a week ago — that all GitHub Copilot plans would move to usage-based pricing on June 1, 2026 .
Instead of offering users a certain number of “ requests ,” Microsoft will now charge users based on the actual cost of the models they’re using, which it calls “...an important step toward a sustainable, reliable Copilot business and experience for all users.” Users instead get however much they spend on their GitHub Copilot subscription (EG: $19 of tokens a month on a $19-a-month plan).
Translation: "we cannot continue to subsidize GitHub Copilot users, or Amy Hood will start hitting people with a baseball bat."
Anyway, the announcement itself was a fascinating preview into how these price changes are going to get framed:
Copilot is not the same product it was a year ago.
It has evolved from an in-editor assistant into an agentic platform capable of running long, multi-step coding sessions, using the latest models, and iterating across entire repositories. Agentic usage is becoming the default, and it brings significantly higher compute and inference demands.
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