GitHub Copilot Closes Its First Usage-Based Billing Cycle — and Agentic Users Are Feeling It
Read this because Flat-rate AI coding tools were always cross-subsidizing heavy agentic users with light autocomplete users. Copilot just stopped — and the first invoice is the part everyone skipped past in the announcement post.
Copilot moved to token-based billing June 1; June 30 closes cycle one, and agentic users report bills 10x-50x their old flat-rate subscriptions.