GitHub has paused new sign-ups for its Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans and tightened usage limits across all individual tiers, citing a fundamental mismatch between how developers now use the product and the infrastructure it was built to support. The company’s VP of product, Joe Binder, said in a blog post that agentic coding workflows, long-running, parallelised sessions in which AI agents and subagents tackle complex problems autonomously over extended periods, are now routinely consuming more compute than users pay for in a month. “It’s now common for a handful of requests to incur costs that exceed the plan price,” Binder wrote.

Full report : GitHub has paused new Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student sign-ups as agentic AI workflows generate costs exceeding monthly plan prices.