GitHub has paused new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans, tightened usage limits across individual tiers, and removed Opus models from Pro plans entirely. Opus 4.7 survives only on Pro+. Opus 4.5 and 4.6 are being cut from Pro+ as well. Affected users can cancel and claim a full April refund by contacting GitHub support between April 20 and May 20.
The root cause is agentic workflows. Long-running, parallelized sessions now regularly generate token costs that exceed the monthly plan price on a handful of requests. Copilot enforces two separate limit types: session limits to prevent peak-load overload, and weekly token-based caps introduced specifically to rein in high-trajectory agentic runs. These are independent of premium request entitlements. You can have requests remaining and still hit a wall. Pro+ carries over 5x the weekly token allowance of Pro. VS Code and Copilot CLI now display live usage warnings at 75 percent consumption.
The full post is worth reading for the mechanics: how token multipliers per model accelerate limit consumption, why parallel fleet workflows burn through quotas faster than sequential ones, and how plan mode improves both efficiency and task success rate. GitHub frames this explicitly as a stopgap while it rebuilds pricing to match agentic compute reality. The shape of that solution is not yet public.
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