I and many other Pro and Pro+ paying customers have been affected, many threads popping up right now in community forums. Many users opened support tickets, some of the cancelling their subscription. No response whatsoever from Github.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/github_copilot_rate_l...

Copilot rate limit but i have PRO licence !!! https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/180092

38 HOUR RATE LIMIT?!?!?! https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/192678

Obscenely Long Rate Limits (Over 24 Hours) https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/192435

INCIDENT UPDATE?: Rate limit P1 for paying Pro+ still not fixed!!!!! https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/192773

The article posted by The Register is pretty amazing:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/github_copilot_rate_l...

Microsoft's answer to heavy, paid use is to limit how much people can make use of their paid plan? Hilarious. I don't know who would still pay for it, especially the $100+/month spenders.

I was given a 44 hour rate limit and haven't had a response to my support ticket yet. I've been little to no progress done on some of my hobby projects.

GitHub have finally wised up that you could run Copilot on a cron and use almost unlimited tokens. They have since made the product unusable by enforcing extremely strict rate limits, annoying many paid customers.