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Copilot cloud sandboxes bill from November 2026 against a shared Actions entitlement

The included Actions compute entitlement becomes one shared, dollar-based pool instead of a fixed number of standard runner minutes. It covers standard runners, cloud sandboxes, and larger runners on Team and Enterprise Cloud. Billing for cloud sandbox usage begins in November 2026.

Action needed:

Review Actions budgets and usage, since higher-rate compute uses the entitlement faster.

Copilot Fusion adds local model routing in experimental preview

Copilot Fusion can now choose between supported on-device models and cloud models in Copilot CLI, the Copilot app and VS Code. MAI Code 1.1 Flash can be downloaded on supported Windows devices.

Copilot removes Gemini 3.7 Flash, Grok 4.5 and older GPT models

On October 19, 2026 Copilot deprecated Gemini 3.7 Flash (use Gemini 3.8 Flash), Grok 4.5 (use Grok 4.7), and GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5 mini.

Action needed:

Switch to the suggested alternatives. Admins may need to enable them.

Copilot Automations adds AI credit limits per run, day, week or month

You can set optional AI credit limits on each automation. Automations without limits keep running as before.

GitHub Enterprise now includes Copilot for every licensed user, Standalone is $10

Enterprises working with a GitHub or Microsoft account team can get Copilot included with GitHub Enterprise. Users without an Enterprise license get Copilot Standalone at $10 per user per month, with no monthly AI credits per seat.

Copilot Automations adds shared automations billed to the repository owner

Shared automations are visible to everyone with repository read access and billed to the repository owner instead of the creator. They are rolling out on Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans.

GitHub Copilot Fusion becomes generally available with a 30% launch discount

Copilot Fusion routes and orchestrates models per task with Standard, High and Max effort levels. Users are billed per model used at standard rates, with a limited-time 30% discount on paid plans.

Copilot Memory becomes generally available on paid plans

Copilot can remember personal preferences and repository conventions across sessions and clients. Copilot dreaming, which curates memories and proposes skill updates, launches in public preview and dream runs consume AI credits.

Copilot code review adds Max effort level in public preview

GitHub reported degraded Grok 4.6 and Grok 4.7 in Copilot for 42 minutes

• Oct 23, 11:41 PM to Oct 24, 12:23 AM UTC

Copilot global default policy for features starts applying to unconfigured settings

Copilot to remove Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra on November 16

Takes effect Nov 16, 2026 · in 15 days

Action needed:

Move to the suggested alternatives before November 16, 2026.

Copilot adds HydraFusion Max multi-model option in research preview

Gemini 4 Argon available in GitHub Copilot for Pro+ and above

Claude Haiku 5.5 available in GitHub Copilot

Copilot code review now defaults to Balanced effort

Copilot removes Claude Opus 4.7, Kimi K2.7 Code, Gemini 3.5 Flash and 3.6 Flash

Action needed:

Switch to the suggested replacement models.

GPT-6.1 Sol available in GitHub Copilot

Claude Sonnet 5.5 available in GitHub Copilot

GitHub reported Copilot code review failures for about 3 hours

• Sep 28, 7:23 PM to 10:08 PM UTC