Copilot is not the same product it was a year ago.

It has evolved from an in-editor assistant into an agentic platform capable of running long, multi-step coding sessions, using the latest models, and iterating across entire repositories. Agentic usage is becoming the default, and it brings significantly higher compute and inference demands.

Today, a quick chat question and a multi-hour autonomous coding session can cost the user the same amount. GitHub has absorbed much of the escalating inference cost behind that usage, but the current premium request model is no longer sustainable.

Usage-based billing fixes that. It better aligns pricing with actual usage, helps us maintain long-term service reliability, and reduces the need to gate heavy users.

Mi predicción: cuando OpenAI y/ó Anthropic se conviertan en empresas públicas, esto es lo primero que van a hacer (si no es que antes, para poder demostrar los números positivos a los inversionistas).

Creo que el convo matón para usos no-enterprise en un futuro va a ser modelos open source corriendo en VPS propios.