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• @github @github on x

  Starting June 1st, GitHub Copilot will move to a usage-based billing model as GitHub Copilot supports more agentic and advanced workflows. In early May, you'll see a preview bill experience, giving visibility into projected costs before the transition. 👉 Read more about the

• @tenobrus @tenobrus on x

  there is no other sane way to sell an ai-based product in 2026. costs will keep going up as models get *more* expensive and people expect even longer running things that require more token spend. u cannot reduce costs with cheaper models, that leaves u always behind the frontier

• @edandersen Ed Andersen on x

  What's incredible about this announcement is that annual Pro and Pro+ subscribers get the premium request model grandfathered in, but Opus 4.7 goes from 7.5x to 27x!! [image]

• @scaling01 @scaling01 on x

  “GitHub Copilot will move to a usage-based billing” on June 1, 2026 now let's see AI demand after it stops being heavily subsidized [image]

• @orenme Oren Melamed on x

  I will totally need to reevaluate how I work with AI now But this makes a lot of sense, it is not really sustainable to manage economics when some people consume millions of tokens per single premium token Nevertheless it's hard to grok for anyone who got used to taking

• @rawkode David Flanagan on x

  Oh well, we had a good run; but back to Codex it is.

• @hkarthik Karthik Hariharan on x

  My prediction is that GitHub will move to usage based billing for all source control operations by the end of 2026. Copilot is just them trialing the billing infrastructure and market response.

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  Its the beginning of the end of subsidized AI subscriptions. GH Copilot is moving to usage-based billing, as has Claude (for business customers.) Fair to assume more will follow. I expect this change will also be a great boost for open models - cheaper, and pretty good already

• @stevibe @stevibe on x

  Copilot is going credit-based June 1. Pay per token, just like the API. Anyone reselling someone else's model was always going to end up here. You can't subsidize inference forever when you don't own the model. This is why local LLMs matter. Not because they're frontier — they're…

• @badlogicgames Mario Zechner on x

  no more free riders :D i suppose they got all the data they need. [image]

• @benvargas Ben Vargas on x

  Translation: We want to lock you into a subscription but only provide you with up to your monthly committed spend in AI credits... and you'll lose them if not spent. Sounds like a sweet deal for GitHub/Microsoft. [image]

• @mkurman88 Mariusz Kurman on x

  Starting June 1, Copilot's new sub pricing will be as follows: for $39, you will receive 3,900 AI credits, with each credit valued at $0.01. Essentially, this means there is no added value at all. From the best to the worst. Great job, Microsoft! 👏👏 [image]

• @awakecoding Marc-André Moreau on x

  I'm burning premium requests like there's no tomorrow until June 1st 😎

• @edzitron Ed Zitron on x

  https://www.wheresyoured.at/ ... [image]

• @marypcbuk Mary Branscombe on bluesky

  GitHub Copilot is no longer absorbing as much of the cost of inference (inference got cheaper but you're doing more of it though not sure that's a Jevons quite yet) and I am absolutely wondering about the timing of this and the OpenAI divorce (although GitHub Copilot uses multipl…

• @shredberg @shredberg on bluesky

  People love to say AI/LLMs are “here to stay” but they never really ever explain what that means.  Like of course the tech will always exist but LLMs are largely expensive to run.  What will AI look like when it's no longer subsidized? [embedded post]

• r/PinoyProgrammer r on reddit

  GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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  GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

• r/technology r on reddit

  GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

• r/GithubCopilot r on reddit

  GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

• r/programmingHungary r on reddit

  GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

• r/devops r on reddit

  GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

• r/github r on reddit

  GitHub Copilot moving to token usage based billing model

• @danifinnwrites @danifinnwrites on bluesky

  Mommy's gonna pitch a fit when she sees your new Robux bill [embedded post]

• @mariorod1 Mario Rodriguez on x

  Being the foundation for millions of developers means our bar must be higher for availability, reliability, and security. I'm sorry it's been a rocky stretch at GitHub. We know we need to do better. Today we published an update on two recent incidents: one on April 23 involving

• @mariorod1 Mario Rodriguez on x

  @MrAhmadAwais I'm sorry it's been a rocky stretch at GitHub. We know we need to do better. Today we published an update on two recent incidents including the April 27 affecting pull requests, issues, projects, and search-backed experiences. https://github.blog/...

• @nicoloboschi Nicolò Boschi on x

  I know i've said bad things on Github stability but honestly I'm sure they are doing an amazing job to keep the infra as stable as possible with this kind of growth

• @auchenberg Kenneth Auchenberg on x

  GitHub experiencing exponential growth fueled by AI. “By February 2026, it was clear that we needed to design for a future that requires 30X today's scale.” [image]

• @glcst Glauber Costa on x

  Is Github fucking with us again? Can't seem to deploy stuff to our cloud, and Github says we don't have any PRs in this repo, open or closed. The PRs simply are not there. I don't actually know if our last changes are in or not! [image]

• @peer_rich @peer_rich on x

  i honestly think if you let people (somehow) migrate repos including stars; that would be huge haha so much of not moving off of github is this stupid stars vanity metric

• @paularambles @paularambles on x

  github not showing any PRs, it's a PR crisis

• @mrahmadawais Ahmad Awais on x

  all fixed now hugops to GitHub!

• @jpschroeder Justin Schroeder on x

  Uhhhg. I totally agree...and also kinda don't want to kill Github. I'm quite worried if we throw out Github we'll end up with a balkanized hellscape of half-used Mastadonish fiefdoms with reddit mod vibes — or worse, bluesky.

• @hsvsphere @hsvsphere on x

  “github just lost another 8” [image]

• @mrahmadawais Ahmad Awais on x

  Woke up to all our GitHub PRs gone. ☠️ [image]

• @hsvsphere @hsvsphere on x

  GitHub has reached six sevens of uptime.

• @0x45o @0x45o on x

  we need a new github that isn't under Microsoft

• @theo @theo on x

  Github has been down for most of the day. I'm so tired of this. Never been so ready to move on. [image]

• @bruvimtired Ahmet on x

  we should all get together and finish building gitbruv. i promise it has better downtime than GitHub.

• @ryanvogel Vogel on x

  “github just lost another 9” [image]

• @chshersh Dmitrii Kovanikov on x

  It's never been a better time to finally explore alternatives to git and different version control models like Pijul https://pijul.org/