Switch from GitHub Copilot to Claude Code: Migration Guide 2026 (opens in new tab)

$750 per month. That is the real cost some developers hit in the first billing cycle after GitHub Copilot switched to token-based AI Credits pricing on June 1, 2026. One developer on X reported going from $29 to $750. Another reported $50 climbing to $3,000. These are not edge cases from unusual usage — they are the result of running normal agentic sessions against large repositories with models like Claude 3.7 Sonnet or GPT-4o, which cost between $0.10 and $0.30 per 1,000 tokens billed throu...