GitHub Pauses New Copilot Sign-Ups, Tightens Usage Limits

GitHub is pausing new sign-ups for its Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans and tightening usage limits for individual subscribers. The company said agentic workflows have fundamentally changed Copilot's compute demands, with long-running, parallelized sessions now regularly consuming far more resources than the original plan structure was built to support. Under the changes, new sign-ups for individual plans are paused to allow GitHub to serve existing customers more effectively. Usage limits are being tightened, with Pro+ plans offering more than five times the limits of Pro plans. Opus models are no longer available in Pro plans, while Opus 4.7 remains available in Pro+ plans. GitHub said it introduced weekly token-based limits recently to control for parallelized, long-trajectory requests that often run for extended periods and result in prohibitively high costs. The company noted that it is now common for a handful of requests to incur costs that exceed the plan price. Usage limits are displayed in VS Code and Copilot CLI to help users avoid hitting them. Users who hit unexpected limits can cancel their subscription and receive a refund for time remaining before May 20. GitHub said these changes are necessary to ensure it can serve existing customers with a predictable experience while it develops a more sustainable solution.