GitHub cuts Copilot credits, Anthropic cancels its 50% API hike

September 1 was a pricing date on two calendars. GitHub let a credit promotion lapse. Anthropic cancelled an increase it had already published. Somewhere in the middle, a smaller CRM vendor did the increasingly rare thing: it moved list prices.

GitHub's September 1 credit cliff: same seat price, 40% less AI

On September 1, the promotional AI credit allowances for GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise expired. Business seats fell from 3,000 included credits per user per month to 1,900. Enterprise fell from 7,000 to 3,900. In dollar terms, included usage dropped from $30 to $19 on Business and from $70 to $39 on Enterprise — cuts of 37% and 44%. Subscription prices did not move: Business remains $19 per seat, Enterprise $39.

GitHub replaced premium request units with AI Credits on June 1, then ran a three-month promotional window at the higher allowances, confirming the billing changes in an August 28 changelog. Credits pool across the organization and burn at per-model token rates, so a team running agentic workflows on frontier models drains the pool far faster than one using autocomplete.

The mechanic matters more than the number. Usage beyond the pooled allowance is enabled by default for organizations and enterprises. A team that crosses the smaller pool is not blocked. It keeps working, and it keeps billing.

For buyers: nothing changed on the price list, and something may have changed on the invoice. Enterprise seats now include exactly their own seat price in credits — $39 of usage for $39. September is the first full month at the new allowance, so the October bill is the real read. Set budget caps before then. This is the pattern to internalize for AI-bundled seats: the list price stops telling you what you're buying. The invoice becomes the only reliable read.

Kommo hiked list prices September 1 — the move most vendors have stopped making

From September 1, 2026, Kommo raised its Base plan from $15 to $25 per user per month and its Advanced plan from $25 to $35, both for new customers. Existing customers stay grandfathered on current pricing unless they switch plans. A CRM-vertical vendor moving list prices by 67% and 40% overnight would have been unremarkable three years ago. In September 2026, it stands out — the SaaS Price Hub tracker logged 40+ verification runs the past week and every one came back Stable.

Bessemer's 2026 AI Pricing Playbook shows why Kommo is now the exception. Hybrid pricing — a base subscription with usage on top — rose from 27% of tracked AI vendors in 2025 to 41% in 2026. Pure per-seat fell from 21% to 15%. The market is not increasing seat prices. It is quietly moving the pricing lever from seats to consumption, then metering AI usage separately on top.

For buyers: when a vendor's sticker stays flat but packaging shifts to bundled AI credits or usage overage, ask whether more of your workload now sits above the meter. Total cost can rise 30% while the price list looks unchanged. Kommo is at least being honest about the increase.

Anthropic cancels its own 50% price increase

The other September 1 event was the one that did not happen. When Claude Sonnet 5 launched in June, Anthropic set API pricing at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, explicitly framed as introductory through August 31, with standard pricing of $3/$15 due September 1. On August 10, Anthropic cancelled the step-up and made $2/$10 permanent. The company's pricing documentation now states that the scheduled increase will not occur.

The context is competitive. OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna 80% and Terra 20% on July 30, then cut flagship Sol by more than 20% on August 21 — input $5 to $4, output $30 to $20, promotional through at least November 21. Pushing a 50% increase into that market would have been unusual.

Note what did not change: the model, the context window, the rate limits. Anthropic gave up 50% of unit revenue on its mid-tier model to hold position, which is what a price war looks like from the seller's side.

For buyers: a published future price is a plan, not a commitment, and it can move in your favour. If you built 2027 budget on the $3/$15 assumption, that line is 33% too high. It also means introductory pricing is now worth negotiating against — vendors are demonstrably willing to make it permanent.

Also this week

• Microsoft's July 2026 packaging update begins hitting renewals: Copilot, Defender and Intune bundle into new suite SKUs, retiring older commercial contracts. Customers on legacy plans see new pricing apply at their next renewal after July 1.
• Zylo's 2026 report puts enterprise software inflation at 2x to 10x general consumer CPI, with 79% of IT leaders facing price hikes at renewal and heavy multi-tool stacks seeing a 34% surge in annual expenditure — driven by mandatory AI feature bundling and elimination of grandfathered pricing tiers.
• The SaaS Price Hub tracker logged 40+ snapshots between August 30 and September 5 — Shopify, Notion, Monday.com, Asana, ClickUp, Mailchimp, Zendesk, Canva and others. Every one came back Stable. The movement this week is in credits and tokens, not list prices.

Catch you next week. — SaaS Price Hub