You're paying $10/month (Individual), $19/user/month (Business), or $39/user/month (Enterprise). Students and verified open-source maintainers get Copilot Pro free.
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In the sidebar, scroll to Code, planning, and automation > Copilot.
Click Cancel subscription.
Confirm. Access continues until the end of your billing period.
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Copilot inline completions in VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, etc. stop working immediately at period end.
Copilot Chat features (the chat panel in your IDE, /explain, /fix commands) disable.
Copilot CLI (`gh copilot`) also stops working — you'll see authentication errors.
Your prompt history and chat conversations are NOT preserved.
GitHub retains your account, repos, and history independently of Copilot. Copilot-specific data — chat conversations, custom instructions, prompt suggestions — are deleted within 30 days of cancellation. Your code is never used for Copilot training (per GitHub's terms).
It works until the end of your current billing period. After that, the extension stays installed but shows 'You don't have access to Copilot' on first use, and inline completions become silent.
Cursor (cursor.com — free tier with 2000 completions/month, paid $20/mo for unlimited) is the closest IDE alternative. Continue.dev is a fully open-source VS Code extension that works with local Ollama models. Codeium has a generous free tier.
Yes, but only the account admin can do it via Organization settings > Billing > Manage spending. Individual seats automatically convert. Each user keeps their chat history during the transition.
Yes, Copilot Pro is free for verified students via the GitHub Student Developer Pack (education.github.com/pack). The verification asks for a .edu email or school documents. Pro is also free for verified open-source maintainers with 100+ stars/contributions.
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