The Credits Era: Why Token Economics Won Over Flat Rates

As AI agents drive up inference costs beyond what flat-rate subscriptions can sustain, both GitHub and Anthropic have shifted to metered credit-based billing within weeks of each other. This signals a fundamental restructuring of AI SaaS economics, forcing developers to rethink how they monetize AI products. The era of unlimited AI for a fixed fee is ending—the question now is whether your model uses credits or classic subscriptions.