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GitHub Copilot moves to token-based billing — flat-rate is dead, power users seeing 10-50× bill spikes
GitHub Copilot transitioned all plans to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026. Base subscription prices unchanged (Pro $10, Pro+ $39, Business $19/user, Enterprise $39/user), but the monthly fee now buys an equivalent dollar amount of AI Credits ($10 plan = $10 in credits). Tokens consumed by every input, output, and cached request count against the allotment. Code completions and Next Edit stay free. Power users running agentic Copilot workflows report 10-50× bill increases vs the old flat-rate model.
Read story →DeepSeek slashes V4-Pro prices 75% — now permanent (was promo through May 5)
Eight days after V4 Pro shipped, DeepSeek announced a 75% promotional cut on V4-Pro: input drops from $1.74 to $0.435 per million tokens, output from $3.48 to $0.87. Cache-hit input charges fall 90% across the entire DeepSeek API. Update May 22-25, 2026: the 75% cut is now PERMANENT — DeepSeek confirmed the discounted rates will not roll back after the originally-planned May 31 expiry.
Read story →The $20 AI coding tier is quietly collapsing
This week GitHub paused Copilot Pro signups, Anthropic briefly removed Claude Code from the $20 Pro plan, and OpenAI consolidated Codex around higher tiers. The cheap agentic coding era is ending. Here's what it means for developers.
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