Github Copilot customers report up to 100-fold price hikes — AI sticker shock bites as Microsoft switches to usage-based pricing

GitHub Copilot users get a rude awakening as new AI pricing goes into effect

GitHub Copilot switched to token-usage billing June 1; users face $700+ monthly bills instead of $45 fixed subscriptions. This consumption model exposes true agentic AI inference costs, signaling broader industry shift toward variable pricing—rethinking engineering budgets.