GitHub announced Copilot will move to token-based AI Credits billing on June 1, retiring the premium request model. Monthly prices stay the same but the economics shift: code completions are now free and unlimited, while agentic coding sessions draw from a monthly credit budget that reflects actual token consumption.
GitHub paused new Copilot Pro signups and tightened limits on April 20, citing agentic workflows that exceed original plan assumptions. Two days later, Anthropic briefly moved Claude Code from its $20 Pro plan to its $100 Max plan before reversing under backlash. Both events reflect the same structural problem: per-seat flat-rate billing doesn't work when a single user session can run for hours.