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I'm still paying $4 a month for GitHub since I keep some repos private, which was down from the $8 a month or whatever before Microsoft acquired GitHub, are you saying there's a price hike for AI services or something else?


AI yearly plans got particulalry hasrsh treatment. per official GitHub Blogs and policies, they penalized specifically yearly plans with 50x ~ 100x multipliers on 2026-06-01.

and yearly plans were given options by GitHub: A) leave and get pro-rata refund; 2) switch to new plan.

so what is the point of yearly plans when GitHub can unilatrerally change conditions of your plan? or force you to leave? what is the point of agreement if I can change it later or say "no agreement".


In case you didn't know, you don't need to pay for private repos.


You do if you want wikis and protected branches, the other features I'm not as invested in, and protected branches is just a common sense nice to have.




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