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Today, GitHub is making the following changes to GitHub Copilot’s Individual is set to protect the experience for existing customers: pausing new
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Agentic workflows have fundamentally changed Copilot’s compute demands.
Key facts
- Please reach out to GitHub support between April 20 and May 20 for a refund
- GitHub Copilot has two usage limits today: session and weekly (7 day) limits
- Starting today, VS Code and Copilot CLI both display your available usage when you’re approaching a limit
- As Copilot’s agentic capabilities have expanded rapidly, agents are doing more work, and more customers are hitting usage limits designed to maintain service reliability
Summary
Today they're making the following changes to GitHub Copilot’s Individual plans to protect the experience for existing customers: pausing new sign-ups, tightening usage limits, and adjusting model availability. They've heard your frustrations about usage limits and model availability, and they need to do a better job communicating the guardrails they are adding—here’s what’s changing and why. New sign-ups for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans are paused. The team are tightening usage limits for individual plans. Usage limits are now displayed in VS Code and Copilot CLI to make it easier for you to avoid hitting these limits.