GitHub Copilot Switches to Usage-Based Billing on June 1. The Token Tab Came Due.

The receipt landed in my GitHub inbox on a Monday morning. Subject: important changes to your Copilot plan. Body: starting June 1, every Copilot subscription pays a metered tab, not a flat fee. The Pro tier still costs ten dollars, but ten dollars now buys you ten dollars in AI credits, and a single agent session against Claude Opus can burn that in one run. I published a piece last week called The Token Tab: A Developer's Audit of the AI Hype Stack . The thesis was that AI tools advertise layer