Copilot Token Pricing — 5 Prompt Tricks to Cut Usage by 60%

Copilot Token Pricing - 5 Prompt Tricks to Cut Usage by 60% If you woke up on June 2 and checked your GitHub Copilot usage dashboard, you probably did a double-take. Microsoft flipped the switch on June 1: Copilot now charges by token, not by message. This means: Every word of context you feed it? You pay. Every line of code it reads to understand your request? Every retry because the first suggestion was wrong? You keep paying. Some developers are reporting bills 2-4x higher than their old flat-rate plan. Uber reportedly burned through 4 months of AI budget in weeks.