GitHub Copilot Pauses New Signups, Tightens Usage Limits, Removes Opus Models from Pro — Agentic Workflows Broke the Pricing Model

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GitHub announced sweeping changes to Copilot individual plans on April 20: new signups for Pro, Pro+, and student plans are paused, usage limits are tightened (Pro+ gets 5x Pro's limits), and Opus models are removed from Pro (Opus 4.7 remains on Pro+ only). GitHub's stated reason: 'Agentic workflows have fundamentally changed Copilot's compute demands, with long-running, parallelized sessions consuming far more resources than the original plan structure was built to support.' The 99-point HN story suggests this is the first major pricing correction driven specifically by agentic coding costs.