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The April every AI plan broke

April 2026 saw five major pricing and plan changes from Anthropic, OpenAI, and GitHub in just three weeks, revealing that agentic workloads are breaking the subscription economics model, pushing the industry toward per-token billing.

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  • Anthropic restricted third-party agent tools from using subscription quotas, forcing users to pay-as-you-go.
  • GitHub halted new Copilot Pro signups due to runaway costs from agentic workloads.
  • Anthropic's Opus 4.7 tokenizer increases token consumption by 35% for same input, but API price unchanged.
  • OpenAI doubled API prices for GPT-5.5 and moved Codex to per-token billing.

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