Model Fallback Routing: Critical 2026 Cost Warning

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Model fallback routing stopped being optional the moment AI providers started restructuring how they bill for usage. On June 1, 2026, GitHub Copilot switched to usage-based billing through GitHub AI Credits — one credit per $0.01, consumed against published per-model rates for input, cached, and output tokens. Around the same window, Claude Code shipped native … Read more