GitHub Copilot drops flat-rate billing. The token era has arrived.

Effective June 1, 2026, GitHub Copilot drops its flat-rate request model and moves to GitHub AI Credits — token-based billing where every chat message, agentic run, and CLI call draws from a shared credit pool. New sign-ups for Pro, Pro+, and Student plans are already paused as of April 20. One AI credit = $0.01. The cost of using it depends on which model you're talking to and how many tokens flow through the session. What actually changed The unit of billing shifts from requests to tokens. Pre