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Retired/Report for October 2026

GitHub Models

Free API tier limits · LLM inference

Fully retired on July 30, 2026 — playground, catalog, inference API and BYOK are gone.

Card n/aVerified Oct 21, 20261 official sourceLLM inference
—requests / minute · not published
—requests / day · not published
—tokens / minute · not published
—service retired

Free allowance

Not published — we could not verify a free quota from an official page.

Service no longer available.

Worth knowing

  • GitHub points users to Azure AI Foundry or GitHub Copilot instead.
  • Was a separate service from GitHub Copilot.

Change history

GitHub Models fully retired

Questions

Does GitHub Models have a free API tier?
Retired. Fully retired on July 30, 2026 — playground, catalog, inference API and BYOK are gone.
Does GitHub Models require a credit card?
Not applicable — the service is no longer available.
What are GitHub Models's free rate limits?
Service no longer available.
When was this GitHub Models data last verified?
Oct 21, 2026, against: GitHub Models docs (retirement notice).