GitHub just had its “best month ever” thanks to a growing demand for AI coding.
The Microsoft-owned developer platform saw a significant jump in customer usage in June after changing how it charges for Copilot, its AI coding tool, Chief Technology Officer Vladimir Fedorov told employees during a meeting on Wednesday.
“June was by far our best month ever,” Fedorov said, declining to “talk about the numbers” because the company’s financial quarter is coming to a close.
The surge is a bright spot for GitHub as it competes with fast-growing rivals such as Cursor, OpenAI’s Codex, and Anthropic’s Claude Code, all of which help write, edit, and fix software.
Microsoft declined to comment. Fedorov also said he personally doesn’t think GitHub needs to raise prices much based on this usage spike, but he stopped short of disclosing any of the company’s definitive plans on pricing.
On June 1, GitHub changed how it charges customers for its Copilot AI coding tool to billing based on how much they use the tool, versus a flat-rate per user for a fixed number of requests. The change aligns GitHub with its coding tool rivals that charge based on consumption.
GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018, is a popular place for engineers to store and manage code and collaborate on projects. GitHub had an early lead because of its popularity.
Lately, though, GitHub has faced more competition from Cursor and Anthropic’s Claude Code. In an internal meeting late last year, a Microsoft executive spoke about needing to overhaul GitHub to compete with those tools, according to audio reviewed by Business Insider.
Due to increased usage, GitHub experienced dozens of major outages in 2026. Microsoft is now turning to its biggest cloud rival, Amazon, to help address capacity issues after those outages, Business Insider recently reported.
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