The way we use and pay for AI is changing
For three years, businesses have bought AI the way they buy Microsoft 365.
Flat fee, line item, sat next to the Zoom invoice and asked no difficult questions. The budget holders were happy, the IT team ticked a box - and somewhere in a product division, engineers started doing things with it that nobody in finance fully understood.
That era is over.
Founder Codifiedstrategy.
On 14 May, Anthropic announced it would split agentic usage out of its Claude subscription and put it behind a metered credit pool, effective 15 June. GitHub Copilot will move to token-based AI Credits on 1 June.
Legacy Anthropic enterprise seats are being retired at renewal. And a tokenizer change in Claude Opus 4.7 has already pushed some API bills up by as much as 27% - with nothing moving on the published pricing page.
The thing being counted has changed. Not the stated price per...
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