Pricing Changes: April 20–26, 2026

Week 17, 2026. 5 changes tracked.

5 changes
1 restructured
1 deprecated
1 model change
2 restricted

High Impact (3)

restricted GitHub Copilot 2026-04-22 AI Coding
No longer in force (2026-09-01). GitHub paused new self-serve signups for Copilot Business by organizations on GitHub Free and GitHub Team plans, two days after the pause on individual plans. Existing Copilot Business customers were unaffected and could keep adding seats. Copilot Enterprise was not named in the announcement. Reversed: GitHub's 2026-08-28 changelog states "Starting September 1, 2026, GitHub will start reenabling sign-ups for new Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise customers paying by credit card or PayPal." The pause announcement is marked Retired.
model change X (Twitter) 2026-04-20 API Gateway
X API per-request pricing overhaul: Owned Reads now $0.001/request; writes raised to $0.015/post (from ~$0.01); URL-containing posts now $0.20/post (massive increase). Following, likes, and quote-posts via API removed from all self-serve tiers. Announced on X Developer Community.
restricted GitHub Copilot 2026-04-20 AI Coding
No longer in force (2026-09-02). GitHub paused new signups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Copilot Student plans citing infrastructure strain from agentic AI workflows (long-running, parallelized sessions overwhelming capacity). Existing users are unaffected. Free tier signups remain open. Same announcement also removed Claude Opus from Pro (now Pro+ only) and tightened usage limits on individual plans. Reversed: GitHub's changelog post for this change is marked Retired, and its plans documentation offers Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max and Copilot Student to new users, verified 2026-09-02. A separate pause dated 2026-04-22 covered new self-serve signups for Copilot Business by organizations on GitHub Free and GitHub Team plans, and did not cover Copilot Enterprise; GitHub reenabled signups for new Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise customers paying by credit card or PayPal from 2026-09-01.

Medium Impact (1)

restructured Hyperping 2026-04-21 Monitoring
Hyperping free plan limits restructured: monitor cap raised from 5 to 20 (HTTP, port, ping, keyword), but the check interval slowed from 3 minutes to 5 minutes. Free plan now also includes 1 seat and 1 server monitoring agent. Trade-off: 4x more endpoints can be monitored, at the cost of slower check granularity.

Low Impact (1)

deprecated AWS 2026-04-20 Cloud Hosting
AWS WorkSpaces Thin Client end of availability. AWS stopping sales of Thin Client devices. Existing devices continue working but no new hardware can be purchased.

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