Overview
- GitHub changed Copilot’s pricing to a consumption model using monthly AI Credits that took effect on June 1, 2026.
- Under the new system Copilot counts tokens for input, output and contextual data and routes requests to multiple underlying models, which makes per-task cost variable and hard to predict.
- Developers have shared screenshots and retrospective calculations showing rapid credit depletion and hypothetical monthly costs ranging from about $1,000 to nearly $9,000, and a named user, Paulo Mateus, posted that his Pro quota was 99 percent used and he cancelled his subscription.
- GitHub published tiered plans with fixed monthly credit quotas (for example Pro $10 = 1,500 credits; Pro+ $39 = 7,000 credits; Max $100 = 20,000 credits) and said classic code completions do not consume AI Credits.
- The shift has prompted public complaints and some cancellations, raised calls for clearer consumption visibility, and led analysts to warn that similar token-based pricing could spread as AI features grow more compute intensive.