Microsoft has introduced updates to Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code to help developers monitor and manage costs following the June 1 switch to usage-based billing for GitHub Copilot, which caused "billing shock" when many developers saw almost all of their monthly credits consumed in a day or two. The June 2026 update to Visual Studio 2022 now calculates "GitHub Copilot usage based on token consumption rather than by request," with a refreshed Copilot Usage window providing "real-time updates as you work." The update also includes "proactive alerts as you approach a limit, when you hit it, and when additional usage (overages) activates," with a configurable quota warning threshold. Similar measures were already implemented in VS Code, with the recent v1.126 update adding "session-level Copilot cost information." Additional features introduced include configurable quota warning thresholds, proactive notifications, user-level spending budgets and budget controls, a preview billing experience showing projected monthly costs before billing, email alerts for administrators, Auto model selection (which provides a "10% AI credit discount"), and Copilot Max for users who consistently need higher AI credit limits.