Why you can’t sign up for GitHub Copilot Pro anymore (and what changes on June 1)

If you’ve tried recently to get GitHub Copilot Pro or Pro+, you probably ran into something confusing: the signup just doesn’t exist anymore. No upgrade button, no checkout page — nothing. And no, it’s not a bug. GitHub has actually removed new signups on purpose.

Around April 2026, GitHub quietly paused new subscriptions for Copilot Pro and Pro+. New users are now only able to access the free tier, while existing subscribers can continue using their plans for now.

So what’s going on? The short version is simple: Copilot got expensive to run at scale. Every suggestion you get is powered by large AI models running in the background, and when millions of developers are using it constantly, the compute costs add up fast. On top of that, heavy users were consuming significantly more resources than expected under a flat monthly pricing model, which made the system harder to balance.

Instead of letting that continue, GitHub hit pause on new signups and started preparing a new pricing approach.

Starting June 1, Copilot will shift away from fixed subscription tiers and move toward a usage-based system. Instead of paying a flat monthly fee with soft limits, users will get AI credits, and every request will consume part of that balance. In practice, it works more like prepaid usage: the more you use it, the faster your credits go.

For existing users, nothing breaks immediately — your account will still work. But after June 1, heavy usage will start to matter much more. Long conversations, frequent code generation, and intensive AI workflows will consume credits faster than before, which means costs will depend directly on how much you use the tool.

This isn’t just a Copilot change — it reflects a bigger shift happening across AI tools in general. Flat pricing is slowly being replaced with usage-based billing because AI models are expensive to run, and different users consume vastly different amounts of compute. Copilot is simply one of the first major developer tools to make that transition publicly.

In short, Copilot isn’t going away — it’s just changing how it’s priced and consumed. And starting June 1, it will feel less like an unlimited subscription and more like a pay-for-usage tool, which is probably the direction most AI platforms are heading anyway.