GitHub Copilot's new bill is a metered surprise

From 1 June, Copilot's flat fee became the floor, with usage billed on top and a new $100 Max tier for heavy hitters. The backlash was instant and loud, because people had built workflows — and team budgets — around a predictable number that just turned into a variable one.

Same month: Windsurf becomes Devin Desktop, Google's Gemini CLI heads to Antigravity, pricing tiers reshuffle everywhere. This isn't Microsoft being greedy in isolation — it's the entire AI-tools market admitting the flat-rate land-grab phase is over and the unit economics have arrived. The 'agentic' workflows vendors pushed you toward are exactly the ones that cost the most to serve.

So the move to make isn't ragequitting Copilot — it's treating AI-tool spend like cloud spend: forecast it, cap it, watch the agentic workflows that quietly rack up tokens. The companies that win your money next won't be the cheapest; they'll be the ones whose bill you can actually predict.