GitHub has paused new sign-ups for Copilot individual and Pro plans while tightening usage limits for existing users. The move is driven by a surge in agentic workflows — long-running, parallelized AI coding sessions that consume far more compute than the original plan structure was designed to handle. Weekly costs for running Copilot have reportedly doubled since the start of the year. Changes include stricter usage caps across Pro and Pro+ tiers, removal of Opus models from Pro plans, and visibility of usage limits directly in VS Code and Copilot CLI. Anthropic has made similar moves, restricting Claude usage limits and third-party tool access. Both companies are signaling a broader shift toward usage-constrained or potentially token-based billing models as AI coding demand outpaces infrastructure planning.
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