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Microsoft is shifting Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and testing DeepSeek V4 on Azure, trading 57x cheaper tokens for a geopolitical risk that has not gone away.
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Microsoft is shifting Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing and testing DeepSeek V4 on Azure, trading 57x cheaper tokens for a geopolitical risk that has not gone away.

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Verified June 2026: real cost per million tokens for self-hosting Llama 4 Scout, Maverick, Qwen3-235B, and DeepSeek V3.2 - GPU requirements, cost formulas, and when cheap APIs actually win.

GitHub Copilot replaces flat-rate subscriptions with token-based billing on June 1, with some developers reporting costs jumping from $29 to $750 per month as agentic workflows drain credits in a single session.

DeepSeek makes its 75% V4-Pro discount permanent, leaving output tokens 34x cheaper than GPT-5.5 and resetting market expectations for enterprise API costs.

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