GitHub Copilot Price Surges 37x with Free Search MCP | Caomei Weekly Report, Week 21, 2026

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Open-Source Updates

Development of Momei Blog continues steadily this week.

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You can also visit the documentation site to learn about the project’s overall plan and future roadmap: https://docs.momei.app/

Momei Blog has officially released version 1.17.0. Below are some screenshots of the new pages and features.

Added frontend direct TTS task processing and settlement functionality. Audio can now be generated on the frontend and uploaded directly to OSS, reducing server load.

Added a waitlist feature, making it easier to view users who have joined the waitlist.

For more features and pages, visit the official website or check out the screenshots in previous blog posts.

You can now join the waitlist at the bottom of the Benefits Package page. When the enhanced package is ready, you’ll be notified via email as soon as possible.

We welcome all users to try it out and share your feedback and suggestions.

Moving forward, development will continue according to the roadmap and to-do list. Stay tuned for more updates!

Certainly, the Momei Blog still has many details to refine, and its features are not yet fully developed. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to submit them in the project’s GitHub issues.

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GitHub Copilot Price Surges 37x

The issue of throttling and price increases for multiple coding plans, including GitHub Copilot, was mentioned in last week’s “AI Programming Throttling & DeepSeek-V4 Experience with Momei Blog | 2026 Week 19 Caomei Weekly Report”. Now, let’s talk about exactly how much GitHub Copilot’s price has risen.

GitHub has released a new page to compare pricing changes before and after the billing model update: Copilot Billing Preview.

After downloading the CSV file from your billing page, upload it to this page.

Then, wait for a while, download the CSV from the email, and upload it to Copilot Billing Preview.

Here’s a look at my personal Copilot bill from last month. As you can see, under the new billing model, the cost would skyrocket from $14.22 to nearly $530—an increase of about 37.27 times.

At this rate, the previous expense of approximately $22.25 in March could rise to around $829.32!

It’s clear that even GitHub can no longer sustain the rising costs of Copilot and has opted for a significant price hike.

After the price increase, I might switch to other more affordable AI models (like DeepSeek) or Coding Plan, keeping Copilot as a backup option—after all, a monthly expense of $500 is unsustainable for anyone.

Free Search MCP

When using AI tools, I’ve often encountered a problem: the lack of a search API-supported MCP.

After all, large AI models themselves don’t have the capability to fetch information and rely on search engines to solve problems.

So, I did some research recently and found that TinyFish offers free search and fetch APIs.

The quotas are quite generous, supporting 30 searches and 150 fetches per minute, which should be sufficient for individual users (if higher frequency is needed, consider the paid version).

However, the official MCP still requires payment, so I built an additional layer on top of the free search and fetch APIs to create an MCP—the tinyfish-mcp project.

tinyfish-mcp is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) service based on TinyFish’s free search API, supporting both Stdio and HTTP transmission methods.

The Stdio mode is recommended for personal development and can be integrated as follows:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tinyfish-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "tinyfish-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "TINYFISH_API_KEY": "<your-api-key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

HTTP mode is recommended for team sharing. The integration steps are as follows.

# 1. Create a .env file
cat > .env << EOF
TINYFISH_API_KEY=<your-api-key>
AUTH_TOKEN=<your-auth-token>
EOF

# 2. Start the service
npx -y tinyfish-mcp-server
# The service runs at http://localhost:3000

Configure in the MCP client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tinyfish-search": {
      "url": "http://localhost:3000/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <your-auth-token>"
      }
    }
  }
}

For more details on usage and deployment, refer to the project documentation, which will not be reiterated here.

Latest GitHub Repository

• tinyfish-mcp - 2026-05-17 17:47:30
  An MCP (Model Context Protocol) service based on TinyFish’s free search API, providing real-time web search capabilities for AI assistants. Supports seamless integration via two standard protocols: Stdio and HTTP, enabling developers to incorporate search functionality into various AI applications.

GitHub Release

momei

v1.17.0 - 2026-05-16 20:43:20

Summary:
This is the release summary for v1.17.0, covering new features, bug fixes, and code refactoring changes.

New Features

• Advertising: Added ad placement and ad campaign-related interfaces and functionalities.
• Performance: Introduced performance monitoring and logging features.
• Development Mode: Added support for local development mode on Windows.

Bug Fixes

• admin: Introduced the CreatorStatsPanel component.
• creator-stats-panel: Added the refreshSignal property to support parent component refreshes; improved statistical panel functionality and internationalization support.
• database: Updated the TypeORM adapter to support the consumeOne method.
• tts: Prevented duplicate processing of direct TTS tasks on the frontend.
• volcengine: Added frame construction functions for voice and podcast-related features.
• Optimized ANSI escape character handling logic.

Code Refactoring

• api: Improved boolean value handling logic for settings.
• middleware: Optimized installation state detection and logging mechanisms; tightened database initialization logic.
• perf: Enhanced Nuxt startup commands and memory configurations; optimized command-line execution and process management logic; removed unnecessary max-lines exception file configurations.
• post-export: Formatted audio duration into an hh:mm:ss string.
• tts-credentials: Improved credential generation logic; updated TTS unidirectional streaming endpoints to bidirectional WebSocket endpoints; updated corresponding endpoint descriptions; refined Volcengine configuration retrieval logic.
• tts-volcengine: Implemented WebSocket-based speech synthesis functionality.
• Cron: Modified to auto-enable only in production environments; explicit setup required in non-production environments.
• Updated Windows local Dev/Build performance governance documentation.

cmyr-template-cli

v1.45.2 - 2026-05-17 15:10:40

Summary:

• Bug Fixes
  • plopfile: Changed the default value of AI-guided mode to enabled. (Commit: bfaa6a0)

Release Date: 2026-05-17

v1.45.1 - 2026-05-15 22:46:02

Summary:
Version 1.45.1 (2026-05-15)

• agents: Added support for project metadata
• core: Enhanced type safety and error handling
• eslint: Updated ESLint configuration to support TypeScript and ignore specific files

tinyfish-mcp

v1.0.6 - 2026-05-17 21:31:29

Summary:

• Simplified HTTP server creation logic.

v1.0.5 - 2026-05-17 21:08:32

Summary:

• Bug Fix: Refactored server retrieval logic.

v1.0.4 - 2026-05-17 20:38:51

Summary:
Version 1.0.4 Update Summary
Fixed an issue where the Docker startup command pointed to the wrong server file.

v1.0.3 - 2026-05-17 20:20:00

Summary:

• Bug Fix: Optimized environment variable loading logic.

v1.0.2 - 2026-05-17 19:47:05

Summary:
Version v1.0.2 fixed the optional API key parameter support issue in the handler.

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