Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans

The pause on new Individual plan signups is the detail worth sitting with: GitHub isn't just repricing, it's actively throttling the entry-level funnel, which suggests the free-to-paid conversion math wasn't working at scale rather than simple feature segmentation.

This lands in the middle of an unusually compressed competitive window. OpenAI upgraded Codex with agentic capabilities in mid-April (covered here as 'OpenAI's big Codex update is a direct shot at Claude Code'), and Cursor is reportedly raising at a $50B valuation on the back of enterprise momentum. GitHub is effectively being squeezed from both directions: Cursor pulling enterprise developers upmarket, and OpenAI's own Codex threatening the agentic coding space where Copilot wants to grow. Moving Claude Opus 4.7 behind the $39 Pro+ tier reads less like a premium feature decision and more like GitHub trying to preserve margin while competitors are still burning capital to acquire users.

Watch whether Cursor's expected raise closes before GitHub announces any enterprise Copilot pricing changes. If Cursor closes at or above $50B and GitHub responds with a revised Individual tier within 60 days, that confirms the signup pause was a strategic reset rather than a routine policy tightening.