Visual Studio Code 1.126 adds AI chat cost tracking, multiple Copilot chats in one session, and a safer Restricted Mode for ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. GitHub Copilot warned in April that the status quo was "no longer sustainable." Now, power users of ...

Token-based billing for GitHub Copilot went live today, and 4.7 million paid subscribers woke up to a fundamentally different product than the one they paid for yesterday. The new GitHub AI Credits ...

In April, GitHub announced that it was moving subscribers from request-based billing to a usage-based model for its AI-powered Copilot service. As that new pricing model goes into effect today, many ...

GitHub Copilot's billing system shifts permanently to token-based pricing at midnight UTC tonight, replacing the flat premium-request model with GitHub AI Credits — and the credit rate developers were ...

The golden age of Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot appears to be at an end — for the little guy, at least. The company is switching its billing system from a flat subscription rate to a token-usage system ...

VS 2026: Ollama provider available in Visual Studio 2026 18.6.0 and later (regular + Insiders). Insiders features may be in flux due to its preview nature — expect occasional regressions. VS Code: ...

Visual Studio Code 1.118 now stamps a Copilot co-author trailer on Git commits by default after PR #310226 flipped git.addAICoAuthor to all in 1.118 builds. The opening comment quickly drew 372 thumbs ...

GitHub has announced that it will be shifting to a usage-based billing model for its GitHub Copilot AI service starting on June 1. The move is pitched as a way to “better align pricing with actual ...

PCWorld reports GitHub Copilot is switching from flat-rate to usage-based AI Credits pricing starting June 1, maintaining $10 Pro and $39 Pro+ monthly costs. This change addresses unsustainable ...

Agentic coding workflows are now routinely generating costs that exceed what users pay per month. GitHub’s response, pausing new sign-ups for Pro, Pro+, and Student plans and tightening usage caps, ...