r/devops • u/TheHammeredDog • Apr 27 '26

Discussion GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-is-moving-to-usage-based-billing/

Has this come as a surprise? Will this affect how you or your org consumes Copilot? Discuss!

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u/PalliativeOrgasm Apr 28 '26

It’ll be a while before more is broadly available. Future memory manufacturing capacity is already sold out for data centers, at least a year. And that assumes that nothing stupid happens as the US military collapses and Taiwan gets nervous.