Simon Willison analyst · 7h ago · 2/5
Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans ↗
GitHub announced changes to Copilot Individual plans including tightened usage limits, paused signups, and restriction of Claude Opus 4.7 to the $39/month Pro+ tier. The company cited agentic workflows' increased compute demands, with long-running parallelized sessions consuming far more resources than the original plan structure supported. The pricing shift moves from per-request to token-based usage limits on per-session and weekly bases to address margin pressure from compute-intensive agent requests.
Agentic workflows have fundamentally changed Copilot's compute demands. Long-running, parallelized sessions now regularly consume far more resources than the original plan structure was built to support.
Copilot was also unique (I believe) among agents in charging per-request, not per-token.