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2 articles First covered Apr 28, 2026, latest May 4, 2026

Stylized GitHub Copilot mascot melting into glowing puddles in front of a wall of flames — a visual metaphor for the steep multiplier hike on annual plans.

GitHub Copilot's Claude Opus multiplier jumps to 27x on June 1. Monthly plans dodge the hike.

GitHub's new model multiplier table for Copilot Pro and Pro+ annual plans lands June 1. Opus 4.6 goes 3 to 27. Sonnet 4.6 goes 1 to 9.

GitHub Octocat mark on a dark gradient, the cover graphic on the GitHub Blog post announcing the Copilot billing change.

GitHub Copilot kills premium requests on June 1. Token billing arrives, fallback models do not.

On June 1 every Copilot plan switches to GitHub AI Credits priced per token. Code completions stay free. Fallback models and credit rollover do not.