BREAKING
AI Shifts to Usage-Based Pricing
0
B
OpenAI inference spend (9 mo 2025)
0
x
vs. revenue over same period
GitHub Copilot Billing Overhaul
1
Announced Apr 27 2026
↓
2
Live from June 1
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3
Fixed caps dropped
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4
Pay per AI Credit
API Output Price per 1M Tokens
GPT-5.5
30
Claude Opus 4.8
25
GPT-5.4
15
GPT-5.4-mini
4.5
0
%
organizations using AI
0
%
see clear revenue or cost gains
0
%
max discount on cached input
Pricing Revisions Will Continue
AI NEWS BLITZ
AI providers are abandoning flat subscriptions as inference costs bite into their margins.