AI Costs Skyrocket: Your GitHub Copilot Bill Shock! #shorts

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]GitHub Copilot users just got their first real invoice, and some of them are staring at $1,500 to $5,800 a month for what used to cost them $39 a month. So, let that sink in for just a second.

[00:00:10]We're told and we were promised that AI would get cheaper over time. Moore's law, scale's efficiencies, all that stuff, right? But, here's what nobody put in the brochure. These prices were never real. They were subsidized. They were propped up by billions in VC's money, and now the tab is due. Microsoft just canceled the internal cloud code licenses because usage-based billing could make costs untenable. Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in 4 months, and LLM token prices, they're up over 65% since February. That's like 3 months ago. The massive corporate giveaway that you've been relying on are silently evaporating right now beneath your feet. And for the past 2 years, venture capital firms have been artificially keeping the tech bills really low, but the real price tag is finally being exposed. Token costs have quietly surged by 12% in a single week and a staggering 65% since February. So, let me ask you something. What