GitHub's New Billing Model Changes Everything About Agentic Development (opens in new tab)

The Bill Is Coming Due On April 27, GitHub announced that all Copilot plans will transition to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026. Premium Request Units (PRUs) are being replaced by GitHub AI Credits, charged based on actual token consumption — input, output, and cached tokens — at each model's published API rate. Here's the line that should make every engineering leader sit up: "Today, a quick chat question and a multi-hour autonomous coding session can cost the user the same amount." That'...