GitHub Models will be fully retired on July 30, 2026

GitHub announced the final milestone for GitHub Models: full retirement on July 30, 2026. After closing to new customers in June, this step applies to all customers, including those with active usage.

After July 30, the playground, model catalog, inference API and BYOK (bring your own key) endpoints will stop working, and the related UI will be removed from GitHub.

Key points

• Warning brownouts: GitHub will run short scheduled interruptions on July 16 and July 23 — GitHub Models requests will temporarily return errors before service is restored, helping teams spot remaining dependencies.
• Anyone calling the GitHub Models inference API from CI/CD, bots or prototypes must migrate before July 30 or pipelines will break.
• GitHub's suggested paths: Azure AI Foundry (broad model catalog) or GitHub Copilot for AI workflows directly on GitHub.
• This follows the June 16 announcement (closed to new customers) — a clearly phased wind-down.

For developers who used GitHub Models as a free LLM playground, this is the cue to audit side projects and demos still hitting these endpoints.