GitHub Copilot tightens plan limits

GitHub just announced changes to Copilot individual plans. New signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student are paused, though Free is still open. Usage limits on individual plans got tighter. Opus is gone from Pro, and on Pro+ Opus 4.5 and 4.6 are being removed, so Opus 4.7 is the only Opus option left at a 7.5× request multiplier through April 30.

The real reason isn't just "usage grew." GitHub admits in the post that it's now common for a handful of requests to cost more than the entire plan price. Agent fleets, long parallel sessions, tools like /fleet — a single run can outspend a month of Pro. The $10/$39 plans were designed for completions and chat, not autonomous multi-hour agents. The math flipped.

The more interesting signal is that GitHub now runs two meters in parallel: premium requests (the legacy count) and usage limits (the actual token-based guardrail). The post quietly says you can have premium requests left over and still get throttled — meaning the request count is cosmetic, tokens are what matter. VS Code and Copilot CLI are now showing token-window usage in the UI. That's the same path Cursor walked in June 2025 when it junked "fast requests" for usage-based credits, and it's how Claude Code / Max has always worked. Copilot is the last major AI coding tool still priced in requests; this move looks like the runway before a token- or credit-based plan takes over.

If this breaks your setup, you can cancel Pro or Pro+ and get an April refund by reaching out to GitHub support between April 20 and May 20.

• Free: signups open, no Opus
• Pro: signups paused, Opus removed
• Pro+: signups paused, Opus 4.7 only at 7.5× multiplier

Full details: github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans