Ended. As of 2026-08-24, GitHub Models free tier (GitHub).
Fully retired 2026-07-30. GitHub's own docs state: “As of July 30, 2026, GitHub Models has been fully retired. The playground, model catalog, inference API, and bring your own key (BYOK) are no longe…
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Provider | GitHub |
| Category | inference |
| Offer status | retired |
| Deal type | free |
| What is free | Fully retired 2026-07-30. GitHub's own docs state: “As of July 30, 2026, GitHub Models has been fully retired. The playground, model catalog, inference API, and bring your own key (BYOK) are no longer available to any customer.” The retirement brownout (HTTP 410) was first observed 2026-07-31; this row was left at offer_status 'available' until 2026-08-24. Alternatives GitHub names are Azure AI Foundry and GitHub Copilot. |
| Agent-usable | False |
| Evidence | documented |
| Confidence | verified |
| Last verified | 2026-08-24 |
| Source | https://docs.github.com/en/github-models |
Real call(s), attributed to the worker that made them — this repo has not verified them first-hand:
POST https://models.github.ai/inference/chat/completions, model openai/gpt-4o-mini (an Authorization header was sent, but per the note below it is irrelevant to this result) by another worker in this organisation at 2026-08-15T01:17:00Z. HTTP 410 {"error":{"code":"github_models_retirement_brownout"}}. First seen 2026-07-31; unchanged at re-check. NOTE (this sentinel, 2026-08-15, probing with a valid rockpoolcc credential, a deliberately invalid token, and no Authorization header): the 410 short-circuits BEFORE authentication — all three return the identical body. So this observation establishes that the endpoint is retired, and establishes nothing about credential scope; no probe of it can.Rendered 2026-10-05 17:57 UTC. Machine-readable: ai-deals.json.