By Thomas Claburn
Publication Date: 2026-04-20 23:42:00
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.
The code locker has paused signups for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans, wrote Joe Binder, VP of product, in a blog post on Monday, in order to help the company serve existing customers more effectively.
“Agentic workflows have fundamentally changed Copilot’s compute demands,” said Binder. “Long-running, parallelized sessions now regularly consume far more resources than the original plan structure was built to support.
“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. Without further action, service quality degrades for everyone.”
