GitHub Copilot moved all of its plans to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, ending the flat-rate subscription model. Subscription prices stay the same — Pro at $10/month, Pro+ at $39, Business at $19/user and Enterprise at $39/user — but each plan now includes only a monthly allotment of GitHub AI Credits (1 credit = $0.01), with anything beyond that metered by token consumption across input, output and cached tokens.
Code completions and Next Edit suggestions remain free and do not draw down credits. The pain falls on heavy agentic users: one developer estimated routine agentic coding sessions burn $30 to $40 each, and others reported monthly costs leaping from roughly $29 to nearly $750, and in one screenshot from about $50 to $3,000.
The shift has triggered a wave of backlash on Reddit and X, with one developer calling it "stupidly expensive" and critics arguing Microsoft spent months making it easy to burn tokens before flipping to a meter. Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment.