One week after confirming that GitHub Copilot will move to a usage-based billing model, Microsoft has set a date for the transition: June 1.
In the GitHub blog post, they explain:
“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.
Today, a quick chat question and a multi-hour autonomous coding session can cost the user the same amount. GitHub has absorbed much of the escalating inference cost behind that usage, but the current premium request model is no longer sustainable.
Usage-based billing fixes that. It better aligns pricing with actual usage, helps us maintain long-term service reliability, and reduces the need to gate heavy users.”
It is important to note that the base plan pricing of current GitHub Copilot subscriptions is not changing users must still subscribe to one of the Copilot plans Pro, Pro+, Business, or Enterprise. Users will receive monthly AI Credits equivalent to their subscription cost. For example, if you are on a $10 plan, you will receive $10 in AI Credits. For business and enterprise customers, pooled AI credits are available. If all your AI credits are used then users must purchase additional credits in both the personal and business models.
GitHub Copilot users who are already on annual Pro or Pro+ plans will remain on their existing plans with premium request-based pricing until their plans expire.