You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. GitHub Copilot warned in April that the status quo was "no longer sustainable." Now, power users of ...

Token-based billing for GitHub Copilot went live today, and 4.7 million paid subscribers woke up to a fundamentally different product than the one they paid for yesterday. The new GitHub AI Credits ...

In April, GitHub announced that it was moving subscribers from request-based billing to a usage-based model for its AI-powered Copilot service. As that new pricing model goes into effect today, many ...

The golden age of Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot appears to be at an end — for the little guy, at least. The company is switching its billing system from a flat subscription rate to a token-usage system ...

GitHub is battling outages, security issues, and a talent exodus. GitHub is battling outages, security issues, and a talent exodus. is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been ...

A so-called software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate piece of software to hide their own malicious code, was once a relatively rare event but one that haunted the ...

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GitHub is moving its Copilot coding assistant to a usage-based billing model, replacing fixed subscription pricing with consumption-based charges as demand for AI-driven development workloads ...

GitHub Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, replacing Premium Request Units (PRUs) with GitHub AI Credits tied to token consumption. Base plan prices are unchanged, but ...