Is GitHub Copilot down right now?

We do not run live uptime probes. To verify GitHub Copilot's current status, check the vendor's official status page, DownDetector, or the vendor's X feed. Links are on this page.

What should I use if GitHub Copilot is down?

The top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives to GitHub Copilot are Cursor, Codex (OpenAI), Google Antigravity. Full list and tier rankings are on this page.

Is GitHub Copilot Down?

Quickest ways to check the current status of github.com plus recent known issues and working alternatives if it's out.

Last editorial review: 2026-04-21

How to check right now

Step 1 -- Load the site

Open github.com→

The simplest check. If it loads and you can log in, the tool is up for you.

Step 2 -- Crowdsourced reports

DownDetector: GitHub Copilot→

User-reported outages aggregated across regions. Good signal for partial or regional outages.

Step 3 -- Live social

Search X for “GitHub Copilotdown” →

Live tweets from other users. Fastest signal for a fresh outage -- often beats status pages by 10-20 minutes.

Step 4 -- Official status page

Find GitHub Copilot's status page →

Most vendors publish a status page at status.[domain] or on Statuspage.io. Google-search to find the current URL.

Known issues we've tracked

CRITICAL (2026-04-20): GitHub paused NEW signups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans. Copilot Free remains open. Existing subscribers keep access but face tightened usage caps -- VP Joe Binder cited agent workloads consuming more compute than subscription economics support. Refund window for dissatisfied subscribers: 2026-04-20 through 2026-05-20 via GitHub Support. If you were planning to buy Pro or Pro+, you currently cannot. Cursor, Claude Code, and Windsurf are the obvious alternatives during the pause

2026-04•GitHub Changelog (github.blog/changelog/2026-04-20), The Register, AfterDawn

Claude Opus models were pulled from the Pro tier on 2026-04-20. Opus 4.7 remains on Pro+ only; Opus 4.5 and 4.6 are being removed from Pro+ as well. If you specifically subscribed to Pro for Opus access, your tier has materially changed -- the $10 Pro plan now routes to GPT-5.4 + Gemini 3.1 + smaller open models by default

2026-04•GitHub Changelog 2026-04-20, AfterDawn

GitHub Copilot will use Copilot Free/Pro/Pro+ user inputs, outputs, code snippets, and context to train its AI models UNLESS users opt out. Effective 2026-04-24. Business and Enterprise plans are excluded from training by default. Individual developers on Free/Pro/Pro+ must explicitly opt out in settings before 2026-04-24 if they want to prevent training on their code. Big differentiator vs. Cursor and Claude Code, both of which do NOT train on user code by default

2026-04•GitHub docs (docs.github.com/copilot/get-started/plans), The Register

New 'premium requests' currency system rolled out in early 2026 -- Pro plan now gets 300 premium requests/mo, Business 1,500, Enterprise 1,000. Beyond those quotas, requests pay-as-you-go. Check the new plan details page before assuming legacy 'unlimited chat' behavior still applies

2026-03•GitHub Copilot plans page

Agent mode reached GA on VS Code and JetBrains in March 2026 -- Copilot can now run multi-step agentic workflows rather than just reply to chat messages. Still behind Cursor Composer 2 and Claude Code on autonomous multi-file work but closes the gap meaningfully

2026-03•GitHub Copilot blog

Copilot chat occasionally loses context mid-conversation in larger projects, giving irrelevant suggestions

2026-03•GitHub Community Discussions

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if GitHub Copilot is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

Cursor

8.3

AI-native code editor, now agent-first in Cursor 3 -- multi-workspace, cross-platform agents, and Composer 2 (Cursor's own 200+ tok/s coding model)

Codex (OpenAI)

8.3

OpenAI's cloud-based coding agent -- runs parallel tasks, proposes PRs, and lives inside ChatGPT

Google Antigravity

8.0

Google's agent-first AI IDE -- deploys up to 5 autonomous coding agents in parallel on a VS Code fork

Roblox Assistant

8.0

Roblox Studio's agentic AI that plans, builds, and playtests games. Planning Mode (2026-04-16) + Mesh Generation + Procedural Models brings 3D-native creation to 70M+ daily creators

Claude Code

7.8

Anthropic's terminal-based coding agent that reads your whole repo and makes real changes -- not just suggestions

About GitHub Copilot

Tier A (8.3/10). AI code assistant that lives in your editor -- autocomplete on steroids. As of 2026-04-20 new signups for Pro/Pro+/Student are PAUSED and Claude Opus was removed from Pro (Opus 4.7 remains on Pro+ only)

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