The Unlimited AI Coding Era Formally Ends June 1 — Every Major Tool Now Metered by Tokens or Credits

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June 1, 2026 marks the structural end of flat-rate AI coding: Cursor switched to token billing in June 2025, Windsurf followed in March 2026, and GitHub Copilot's transition lands today. A '$20 Pro / $200 Power' tier structure has converged across Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, and Copilot. Reasoning models and agent-style workflows vary compute cost by orders of magnitude, making fixed pricing unsustainable. Developers running agentic workflows should audit their token consumption immediately.