Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans

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TLDR

  • GitHub tightened Copilot individual plan limits, paused new signups, and moved Claude Opus 4.7 to the $39/month Pro+ tier.

Key Takeaways

  • Individual plan signups are paused; existing per-request pricing is being replaced with token-based limits per session and per week.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 is now restricted to the Pro+ plan at $39/month; previous Opus models are dropped entirely.
  • GitHub cited agentic workflows as the cause: long-running parallelized sessions consume far more compute than the original plan was built to support.
  • Copilot previously charged per-request rather than per-token, meaning token-heavy agentic sessions cut directly into margins.
  • The announcement covers Copilot CLI, the cloud agent, code review on GitHub.com, and IDE extensions for VS Code, Zed, and JetBrains.

Why It Matters

  • Coding agents have driven token consumption to roughly 10x what heavy LLM users burned six months ago, forcing a structural pricing reset.
  • The per-request model that made Copilot distinctive is being unwound because individual agentic calls now span far more tokens than the model assumed.
  • The announcement does not clearly specify which of the 15 products with “GitHub Copilot” in their name are affected, leaving scope ambiguous.

Simon Willison, Simon Willison’s Weblog · 2026-04-22 · Read the original

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