🪦 Dead
GitHub Models
Product killed · Strategic Consolidation · shut down July 30, 2026
- Born
- Died
- Lifespan
- 1y 12m
- Cause of death
- Strategic Consolidation
- Killed by
- GitHub
- Type
- Service
GitHub's free multi-model playground and inference API — Llama 3.1, GPT-4o, Cohere Command and Mistral Large, all callable with just a GitHub token. GitHub closed it to new customers in June 2026, then ran two deliberate 'brownouts' on July 16 and 23 where requests simply returned errors, to smoke out anyone still depending on it. On July 30 everything went dark, including for existing paying customers. Free model experimentation went back to being a cloud-procurement decision.
Collateral damage: No grandfathering and no paid escape hatch. Projects that prototyped against a GitHub token had to migrate to a billed cloud provider.