GITHUB COPILOT ENDS FLAT PRICING TODAY — DEVELOPERS NOW PAY PER TOKEN AND ARE CALLING IT A BAIT AND SWITCH GitHub flipped the switch on June 1 and moved all Copilot plans from flat monthly pricing to usage-based billing tied to a new virtual currency called GitHub AI Credits, priced at one cent each. The transition affects every individual plan holder immediately, with annual subscribers held on the old system until their plan expires. Plan prices are not changing. What is changing is how much usage those prices actually buy. The anger in developer communities has been building for weeks. The core complaint is not complicated: under flat pricing, developers paid a fixed amount and used as much as they wanted. Under credits, the same monthly fee now buys a fixed pool of tokens, and compute-intensive tasks burn through that pool faster. For heavy users running agents, long context windows, or demanding models, the math does not work in their favor. GitHub’s defense is that code completions and next edit suggestions stay unlimited and do not consume credits. That covers everyday autocomplete. But anything involving reasoning models, agentic tasks, or high-volume API calls now meters against the credit balance. When the credits run out, Copilot stops. Users can set a budget to allow additional spending or wait for the monthly reset. No one is being forced to overspend, but the implicit promise of unlimited AI assistance, which drove many to sign up in the first place, is gone as of today. Keywords: GitHub Copilot billing change, AI Credits GitHub, Copilot usage-based pricing, developer AI cost 2026