GitHub's Copilot Individual Shake-Up — What It Means 💸
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GitHub has announced changes to its Copilot Individual plans — Free, Pro, and Pro+ — taking effect in April 2026. The details are in the company news post and the changelog entry. Our reaction: unsurprising — and overdue. For historic context (see the Copilot plans page and GitHub's 2025 Pro+ announcement): Copilot Pro has been $10/month since launch, back when frontier models were cheaper and agent mode didn't exist, and Pro+ arrived in April 2025 at $39/month. The economics of that original entry-level tier were never going to survive a world of agentic coding on frontier models. This post is commentary, not a restatement of GitHub's announcement — read the source for the actual numbers.