Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+
As shared in our recent blog post, we're making the following changes to Copilot plans for individuals as part of our ongoing efforts …
The GitHub Blog
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Discussion
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@sqs
Quinn Slack
on x
I'm not surprised that GitHub Copilot raised the effective prices of Opus and stopped allowing signups: https://github.blog/.... We didn't support Copilot subs in Amp because we knew this would happen and be a bad experience.
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
on bluesky
AI token subsidies seem to be ending across the industry. — GitHub Copilot has paused new signups on multiple plans, removed Opus from $10-a-month subscriptions, and plans to move users to token/API-based billing later this year. — Usage quotas are also being reduced and user…
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@edzitron.com
Ed Zitron
on bluesky
Exclusive: Microsoft is reducing rate limits on GitHub Copilot, removing Opus from $10-a-month subscriptions, and plans to move users to token/API-based billing some time later in 2026 in a sign that it's looking for way to cut costs for its AI services. — www.wheresyoured.at/n…
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r/windsurf
r
on reddit
Copilot died too
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r/GithubCopilot
r
on reddit
This is plain extortion
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@edzitron.com
Ed Zitron
on bluesky
Got exactly one citation and ignored by several major pubs covering the official Microsoft post here, looking forward to Thursday when they get to do it again when token-based billing is announced ❤️ [embedded post]
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r/GithubCopilot
r
on reddit
Exclusive: Microsoft To Shift GitHub Copilot Users To Token-Based Billing, Reduce Rate Limits
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r/brdev
r
on reddit
GitHub copilot remove o Claude Opus e limita uso do plano Pro
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r/GithubCopilot
r
on reddit
Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans
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r/BetterOffline
r
on reddit
Exclusive: Microsoft To Shift GitHub Copilot Users To Token-Based Billing, Reduce Rate Limits
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Angelo Dejaeghere
Angelo Dejaeghere
on linkedin
GitHub recently made quiet changes that downgraded Copilot Pro and Pro+ for customers who pay for these plans. …
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Brent Laster
Brent Laster
on linkedin
Today GitHub made some distressing announcements about GitHub Copilot usage. As someone who has done extensive training on GitHub Copilot and written a book on it, I'm concerned to see this. …
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@pawelgrzybek.com
Paweł Grzybek
on bluesky
This is news for today. Finally, someone (Microsoft) admitted that the real running cost of AI infrastructure massively exceeds the income from it. — I expect similar posts from other AI giants to follow. — github.blog/news-insight...