GitHub has recorded its ‘best month ever’ in June after a major change to how it charges customers for its Copilot AI coding tool. According to a report by Business Insider, GitHub chief technology officer Vladimir Fedorov told employees during a meeting that usage surged after the company moved from a flat-rate per user model to billing based on consumption. “June was by far our best month ever,” Fedorov said, though he declined to share specific figures with the financial quarter nearing its close. On June 1, GitHub shifted to a usage-based pricing model, aligning itself with competitors such as Cursor, OpenAI’s Codex, and Anthropic’s Claude Code. These platforms also charge based on consumption rather than fixed user fees. The move appears to have boosted adoption, giving GitHub a bright spot amid intensifying competition in the AI coding space.Competition and challengesMicrosoft acquired GitHub in 2018 and it is the leading platform for developers to store and manage code. However, it has faced growing pressure from newer AI-native rivals. Internal discussions at Microsoft last year acknowledged the need to overhaul GitHub to stay competitive.The surge in usage has also strained infrastructure. GitHub experienced dozens of major outages in 2026, prompting Microsoft to seek additional cloud capacity from rival Amazon Web Services to stabilize operations.Fedorov further noted that despite the spike in demand, he does not believe GitHub needs to raise prices significantly. He stopped short of confirming any definitive pricing plans, leaving open questions about how the company will balance growth with revenue strategy.GitHub COO on AI 'Shit Code' overload Recently, GitHub's COO Kyle Daigle responded to a viral post from popular developer personality ThePrimeagen, who credited GitHub for "handling the amount of shit code added over the last three months," Daigle confirmed the growth is unlike anything the platform has seen before.There were one billion commits across all of 2025. Now GitHub is processing 275 million commits per week—putting it on pace for 14 billion this year if growth holds linear. GitHub Actions has exploded from 500 million minutes per week in 2023 to over 2.1 billion minutes in a single week this year. As for the shit code remark? Daigle's response was characteristically dry: "As a fine purveyor of hand-crafted shit code for many years, I'm not gonna weigh in on that."The core problem, as the software developer put it bluntly, is that "GitHub has been around since April 10, 2008. Agents came out yesterday. GitHub was in fact NOT designed for agents." OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger echoed the frustration, noting he keeps hitting API quota limits—infrastructure that was clearly designed with humans in mind, not autonomous coding agents hammering endpoints around the clock.