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Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch
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Microsoft's GitHub has stopped accepting new Copilot individual subscriptions while the code hosting biz figures out how it can meet its service commitments without breaking the bank.
Key facts
- Opus 4.7 expands more tokens than its predecessors, making it between 20 percent to 40 percent more expensive, though it performs better in certain scenarios
- As part of the transition toward more sustainable business practices, Binder said that Anthropic's Opus 4.5 and 4.6 models will be removed from Pro+ subscriptions
- Opus 4.7, launched last week, will be available to Pro+, Teams, and Enterprise customers, in conjunction with a 7.5× premium request multiplier as part of promotional pricing until April 30th
- Google enacted a similar policy for its Antigravity AI development environment, Gemini CLI, and Gemini Code Assist
Summary
The code locker has paused signups for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans, wrote Joe Binder, VP of product, to help the company serve existing customers more effectively. "Agentic workflows have fundamentally changed Copilot's compute demands," said Binder. "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. Microsoft didn’t say why it needs to implement this pause, but February’s surge of enthusiasm for OpenClaw seemingly caught AI infrastructure providers unprepared for rising demand and struggling to keep up.