The restructuring of GitHub Copilot's individual plans announced in April is no longer an upcoming change — it's the status quo. The June 1 update to the official Community discussion confirms it: usage-based billing is live for all users, and Copilot code review now consumes GitHub Actions minutes in addition to GitHub AI Credits. If you're on an individual plan, three shifts are permanent and worth acting on.

Opus Is Gone From Pro — and 4.5/4.6 Are Leaving Pro+

Claude Opus is no longer part of Copilot Pro. Opus 4.7 stays in Pro+ only, and per the April 16 changelog, Opus 4.5 and 4.6 are being removed from Pro+ as well. GitHub's reasoning, from the FAQ: "Rate limits that would be required to keep Opus sustainable on Pro would result in a worse overall experience than using a capable model without those limits. Users would likely hit their cap very quickly." Which is to say: frontier model access now costs the premium tier, full stop.

Every Model Call Now Burns AI Credits

Starting June 1, all model usage — not just premium models — consumes AI Credits. This replaces the old PRU accounting. You get monthly included usage, and then exposure. The FAQ is explicit that there is no graceful degradation: "There are no options to continue using Copilot without waiting for the included usage to reset, enabling additional spend, or upgrading."

On top of the credit metering, limits got tighter. Pro+ sits at "more than 5X the limits of Pro." There are new rate ceilings, a seven-day limit that drops you to "Auto will continue to work" once hit, and — the useful part — usage limits are now surfaced directly in VS Code and Copilot CLI, so you can watch your ceiling approach instead of discovering it in a dead session.

The One-Way Door on Plan Migration

The critical operational detail: migration only works one direction. Users with an active Pro subscription can upgrade to Pro+. Cancelling Pro or Pro+ is not reversible, except for verified students — you won't be able to resubscribe at that level, and there's "no workaround or exception for this at this time." You'd fall back to Copilot Free.

The refund path GitHub offered (Settings → Billing and licensing → Licensing → Manage subscription → Cancel and refund) only ran until May 20. That window is closed, so "cancel if it doesn't work for you" is no longer the escape hatch it was in April.

Also be careful with the naming trap: GitHub Pro is not Copilot. GitHub Pro is an account plan (Pages, Wikis, more Actions minutes) and does not include Copilot. The discussion is full of people who bought GitHub Pro expecting Copilot access and then had to fight the refund queue, which ran at "extremely high volume."

Check Your Plan, Watch the Meters

For a working engineer, the practical checklist is short. First, confirm which tier you're actually on — if you're on Pro and want to keep Opus around, upgrading to Pro+ is the only sanctioned move right now. Second, treat the in-editor limit meters as your real bill dashboard; they're in VS Code and Copilot CLI precisely so you can budget mid-session instead of after the fact.

And one caution I'd flag: because cancellations aren't reversible and new sign-ups for Pro/Pro+/Student remain paused, anything that ends your paid subscription — a lapsed student verification, a declined card — strands you on Copilot Free with no path back. As of today, an active Pro or Pro+ subscription is effectively terminal. Treat it that way.

The broader signal is familiar by now: frontier models gated behind premium tiers, every call metered, "unlimited flat-rate AI" retired. Copilot's individual plans are just the latest place where that trade is explicit. Budget for metering, not for the old flat promise.

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