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Provider plan & limit change history: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI
A dated log of 3 provider-announced plan and limit changes, each sourced to the provider's own announcement page. This is a historical record, not a live status page.
Last updated 2026-08-16 · Every entry independently verified 2026-08-16 · By Soren Starck
Read this before the log: what this page is and is not
- Not exhaustive. This page logs 3 provider-announced changes selected for this pass, one each for Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini CLI. Providers announce far more changes than are logged here; absence from this page is not evidence that nothing else changed.
- A historical source log, not a statement of current terms. Every entry below describes what a provider announced on a specific dated page. None of it is restated, updated, or implied to be this provider's current plan, limit, price, or benchmark today. For current terms, use the rate-limit guide linked from each entry.
The log
Newest first, ordered by the date each change actually took effect (falling back to the announcement date when the provider named no separate effective date).
Google: Gemini CLI and Code Assist IDE extensions stop serving Google AI Pro/Ultra and free individual users
Google announced that, effective 2026-06-18, Gemini CLI and the Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions would stop serving requests for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers and for people using free Gemini Code Assist for individuals. Google said Standard and Enterprise organization access remained unchanged, and that paid Gemini or Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform API-key access remained available.
Scope
A historical statement, scoped exactly as Google scoped it: the retirement applies to Google AI Pro/Ultra subscriber access and free individual Gemini Code Assist access to Gemini CLI and the Code Assist IDE extensions, effective 2026-06-18. It does not apply to Standard/Enterprise organization access or to paid Gemini / Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform API-key access, which Google said continued.
Editorial scope note· this guide's boundary on the claim, not vendor wording
Do not generalize this to all Gemini CLI users or read it as an ongoing/future deadline — the effective date has already passed relative to this record’s verification date. Enterprise/API-key routes Google names as continuing are not affected by this record.
- Published
- 2026-05-19 (Google Developers Blog post date)
- Effective
- 2026-06-18
- Verified
- 2026-08-16
Source evidence
On June 18, 2026, Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions will stop serving requests for Google AI Pro and Ultra, as well as those using it free of charge using Gemini Code Assist for individuals.
If your organization uses Gemini CLI or our IDE extensions via a Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise license, or if your organization uses Gemini Code Assist for GitHub through Google Cloud, your access remains unchanged.
Gemini CLI will remain accessible via paid Gemini and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform API keys.
https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transitioning-gemini-cli-to-antigravity-cli/ → · verified 2026-08-16
GitHub Copilot: usage-based billing active on all plans; Copilot Max upgrade for existing subscribers
GitHub said usage-based billing was active for all Copilot plans, with each plan including a monthly usage allowance measured in GitHub AI Credits and additional spend requiring an additional budget to be set. Copilot Max was available as an upgrade for existing Student, Pro, and Pro+ subscribers, while new Copilot Max sign-ups remained paused.
Scope
A historical statement of what GitHub announced as active/true on 2026-06-01: that usage-based billing covered every Copilot plan, that plan usage was denominated in GitHub AI Credits, that overage required an explicit additional budget, and that Copilot Max upgrade eligibility was limited to existing Student/Pro/Pro+ subscribers with new sign-ups paused.
Editorial scope note· this guide's boundary on the claim, not vendor wording
Do not infer any current Copilot allowance, credit amount, price, or Max sign-up availability from this record — those move and are not restated here. See the Copilot rate-limits guide for current-terms coverage.
- Published
- 2026-06-01 (GitHub Changelog post date/URL)
- Effective
- 2026-06-01
- Verified
- 2026-08-16
Source evidence
As of June 1, all Copilot plans bill based on GitHub AI Credits consumed. Each plan comes with monthly included usage.
After you consume your included AI Credits, you can continue to spend additional AI Credits and be billed at the end of the month by setting an additional spending budget.
Copilot Max is available today as an upgrade for existing Student, Pro, and Pro+ subscribers, with higher included usage and higher spending limits to support more intensive workflows.
New user sign-ups remain paused for Copilot Student, Pro, Pro+, and Max plans.
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-01-updates-to-github-copilot-billing-and-plans/ → · verified 2026-08-16
Cursor announced the Ultra plan and moved Pro from request limits to compute-based limits
Cursor announced Ultra as a $200/month plan offering 20x more usage than Pro. For the Pro plan, Cursor said usage would move from request limits to compute limits, that Pro would include at least $20 of model inference at API prices each month, that Auto would become unlimited, that tool-call limits would be lifted, and that existing users could keep the prior 500-request method.
Scope
A historical statement of what Cursor announced on 2025-06-16 (page-noted update 2025-06-30) it would do: introduce Ultra at that price/multiplier and change Pro's limit model in the ways listed. It is not a restatement of Cursor's current Ultra price, current Pro allowance, or current request/compute terms.
Editorial scope note· this guide's boundary on the claim, not vendor wording
Do not present $200/month, the 20x multiplier, the $20 inference floor, or the 500-request retention option as Cursor’s current terms — this is a dated announcement, not a current plan snapshot. See the Cursor rate-limits guide for current-terms coverage.
- Published
- 2025-06-16 (the page's BlogPosting JSON-LD publish date)
- Effective
- Not separately dated by the source
- Verified
- 2026-08-16
The page visibly notes it was updated June 30, 2025.
Source evidence
We’re excited to roll out an option to purchase Ultra, a $200 / mo plan with 20x more usage than Pro.
By default, the Pro plan will move from request limits to compute limits; all users will get at least $20 of model inference at API prices per month.
Concurrent with this change, we're rolling out unlimited access to the “Auto” model and lifting all limits on tool calls. Existing users can choose to stay with the “500 request limit” method if they prefer.
https://cursor.com/blog/new-tier → · verified 2026-08-16
Current terms live elsewhere
This page never restates a provider's current plan limits, prices, or benchmarks — those move, and a dated change-history entry would go stale the moment it tried to describe today's terms instead of a specific past announcement. Use the guide for the provider you care about:
- Cursor rate limits explained — the current-terms guide for Cursor.
- GitHub Copilot rate limits explained — the current-terms guide for GitHub Copilot.
- Gemini rate limits explained — the current-terms guide for Gemini CLI.
- Gemini CLI menu bar workflow — open the related workflow guide.
Maintenance protocol
This log is checked quarterly: every source link is re-opened to confirm it still resolves and that the event wording it supports still matches what the page currently shows. New entries are appended only when they are sourced to a provider-owned dated page describing a plan or limit change. Existing entries are never silently rewritten to reflect current terms — a record describes what a provider announced on its dated page, not what is true today. If a source becomes unreachable or is revised in a way that changes the historical claim, that one record gets a scoped note; unrelated entries keep their own verification dates.
Providers covered
This pass covers three of SessionWatcher's supported providers: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini CLI. See the full supported-provider map for every provider SessionWatcher tracks (registry verified 2026-08-11).
SessionWatcher is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Cursor, GitHub, Microsoft, or Google. Product and provider names are trademarks of their respective owners.
Measurement note for this page
This is a Lane B/C authority-asset experiment (candidate c_e514833e9878). Its frozen success criterion is at least 60 cumulative Google Search Console impressions for this exact URL, restricted to the query family (a provider term AND a change/update term AND a plan/limit/quota/credit/request term), over the first 56 complete days after it becomes indexable. That clock has not started: the first complete indexable day has not yet been verified.
No page-level baseline exists — this URL is new. A separate, authenticated site-level opportunity reading (96 impressions, 0 clicks, across existing pages, for the same query family, over 2026-05-15..2026-08-13) is recorded in config/change-history-gate.mjs and is never compared to this page's own reading as though it were a baseline for it.
Tracked internal-link clicks from this page (guide_internal_link_clicked with source=provider-plan-limit-change-history) are diagnostics, not success criteria. Full contract: config/change-history-gate.mjs; reviewer record: CHANGE-HISTORY-GATE.md.