Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

I wouldn't mind this change that much if opus-4.7 worked properly in copilot cli. It keeps stopping mid-thought or task and forces me to waste more prompts for no observable reason.

Looks like I'm ending my subscription, good (likely too good, no way my account was even remotely within profitable range) access to opus-4.6 was the only reason I used this at all.

Re: Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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Post by diath » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 7:05 PM UTC

I guess it makes more sense for me to just get Claude Pro instead. I was using my Copilot license only because of Opus 4.6 access as all other models seemed crippled in comparison in Copilot; does not even make sense to upgrade to Pro+ which goes from $10/mo to $40/mo and only gives you access to a model that has 7x the rate - 5x the limit at 7x the rate for 4x the price does not seem appealing at all.

Re: Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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Post by aleksiy123 » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 7:43 PM UTC

I saw some Reddit rumours going around and locked myself into the yearly Pro+

I guess overall probably was a good decision.

But 7.5x as well as quota limits is pretty hard to swallow.

The annoying thing about the quota limits is they make it really awkward to actually fully utilize the 1500 premium requests you are paying for.

Like if you don’t plan working around the daily and weekly quotas you may not actually be able to utilize your full request allocation.

Claude has the same issue. Single session blows through the quota.

Re: Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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Post by davepeck » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 8:00 PM UTC

This thread is pretty quiet for what strikes me as a substantial set of changes with, presumably, more substantial changes still to come for anyone not grandfathered into a Pro plan.

I get the impression that the intersection of HN posters and Copilot users is quite small in practice; that Claude Code and Codex suck up all the oxygen in this room. But it seems plausible we’ll see similar “true costs greatly exceed our current subscription pricing” from Anthropic and OpenAI someday soon…

Re: Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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Post by rectang » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 8:52 PM UTC

Welp. I already added a $20 Claude Pro subscription to complement my $10 Github Copilot Pro subscription and $10 DuckDuckGo Plus. That was partly to show support for Anthropic after the OpenAI/DOD episode, but also because I've been using Opus 4.5 exclusively with Copilot and I figured I should try Claude Code eventually.

Now it's going to cost me an upgrade to $39 Github Pro+ to keep using Opus, and even then it's with much higher multipliers. I don't fully understand the extent to which this reflects actual costs for Opus versus Microsoft leveraging network effects to discourage the usage of a competitor.

I didn't really want to wander outside of VSCode just yet because I was happy with VSCode/Copilot/Opus-4.5 and I don't want to spend all my time experimenting when stuff is changing so fast. But I guess my hand has been forced.

Re: Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans

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Post by diath » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 9:01 PM UTC

rectang wrote: post #9

Welp. I already added a $20 Claude Pro subscription to complement my $10 Github Copilot Pro subscription and $10 DuckDuckGo Plus. That was partly to show support for Anthropic after the OpenAI/DOD episode, but also because I've been using Opus 4.5 exclusively with Copilot and I figured I should try Claude Code eventually. Now it's going to cost me an upgrade to $39 Github Pro+ to keep using Opus, and even then it's w…

> I didn't really want to wander outside of VSCode just yet because I was happy with VSCode/Copilot/Opus-4.5

This was my first thought too but apparently you can just use Claude Code within VSC: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/vs-code