Visual Studio Update Aligns Copilot Tracking with GitHub's New Billing Model

Visual Studio just got honest about Copilot costs — here's how to use the new window

The June 2026 update to Visual Studio did something developers have been asking for since GitHub Copilot launched: it stopped hiding what you're actually paying for. The new Copilot Usage window tracks every token, in real time, against a usage-based billing model that Microsoft flipped on June 1, 2026. For the first time, you can see the cost of a chat turn as it lands, not after the invoice arrives.

That's a real shift. Token-based accounting is what every other AI tool already does — OpenAI's dashboard, Cursor's usage panel, Claude Code's /cost command.

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