#github-copilot

RSS

GitHub Copilot pricing, plan changes, model availability, and where it sits in the agentic-coding race against Cursor and Claude Code.

Microsoft building exterior sign on a clear day.

AI·3 weeks ago

Microsoft is canceling Claude Code for its engineers. They have until June 30 to switch to Copilot CLI.

Internal Claude Code licenses end June 30, 2026, for Microsoft's Experiences + Devices group. Engineers move to GitHub Copilot CLI instead.

Illustration of a Git commit message stamped with a Copilot co-author trailer.

Web·last month

VS Code shipped 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' on every commit by default. Microsoft is reverting it.

A two-line PR flipped the AI co-author flag from off to all in April. Hand-typed commits started getting Copilot attribution. The maintainer apologized and promised a fix in 1.119.

Stylized GitHub Copilot mascot melting into glowing puddles in front of a wall of flames — a visual metaphor for the steep multiplier hike on annual plans.

AI·last month

GitHub Copilot's Claude Opus multiplier jumps to 27x on June 1. Monthly plans dodge the hike.

GitHub's new model multiplier table for Copilot Pro and Pro+ annual plans lands June 1. Opus 4.6 goes 3 to 27. Sonnet 4.6 goes 1 to 9.

GitHub Octocat mark on a dark gradient, the cover graphic on the GitHub Blog post announcing the Copilot billing change.

AI·2 months ago

GitHub Copilot kills premium requests on June 1. Token billing arrives, fallback models do not.

On June 1 every Copilot plan switches to GitHub AI Credits priced per token. Code completions stay free. Fallback models and credit rollover do not.

GitHub Copilot announcement cover graphic

AI·2 months ago

GitHub Copilot paused new signups and kicked Opus out of Pro. Here's what actually changed.

GitHub froze Copilot Pro/Pro+/Student signups on April 20 and moved Claude Opus 4.7 behind the $39 Pro+ tier. Agent workflows broke the old math.