GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot pricing stopped counting requests in June 2026 and started counting money.
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GitHub Copilot pricing stopped counting requests in June 2026 and started counting money. Every plan now carries a monthly allowance of GitHub AI Credits, each worth exactly $0.01, and your token consumption converts into credits at each model's published rate. The subscription buys an allowance rather than a feature set, which makes Copilot one of the easier products in this index to forecast.
Key takeaways
Individual plans run $10, $39 and $100 a month, carrying 1,500, 7,000 and 20,000 credits.
One AI credit equals one cent, so the allowance converts directly into a dollar budget.
Code completions and next edit suggestions cost nothing and stay unlimited on every paid plan.
Business and Enterprise pool every licence's credits into one shared balance rather than stranding them per user.
GitHub Copilot pricing in 2026
Plan | Price/month | Base credits | Flex allotment | Total credits
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
Copilot Free | Free | Allowance | n/a | Allowance |
Copilot Pro | $10 | 1,000 | 500 | 1,500 |
Copilot Pro+ | $39 | 3,900 | 3,100 | 7,000 |
Copilot Max | $100 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 20,000 |
Copilot Business | $19/granted seat | n/a | n/a | 1,900 per user |
Copilot Enterprise | $39/granted seat | n/a | n/a | 3,900 per user |
Source: docs.github.com/en/copilot/get-started/plans, read 22 September 2026.
What GitHub Copilot actually meters
Copilot meters tokens and reports them as credits. An interaction consumes input tokens, output tokens and cached tokens, each priced per model, and the total converts into AI credits at one cent per credit. Beyond the included allowance, extra usage bills at those same rates.
Two details shape a real bill more than the headline rate.
Long context costs roughly double. Models carry a token threshold, and crossing it moves you to a second rate tier. GPT-5.5 runs $5 per million input tokens up to 272K and $10 above it, with output going from $30 to $45. GPT-5.6 Luna doubles from $0.20 to $0.40. The model you chose is only half the price; the size of the context is the other half.
Completions are free. Code completions and next edit suggestions are not billed in AI credits and remain unlimited on every paid plan. Only agentic and chat work draws down the allowance, which means the feature most developers use most often never appears on the bill.
The newer OpenAI models also carry a separate cache write cost on top of cached input, which earlier models do not.
How credits work
The allowance splits into "base credits" and a "flex allotment" that sum to the monthly total. GitHub publishes the split in its plan table but does not explain what distinguishes the two, which is the one genuine gap in otherwise complete documentation.
Pooling is where the business plans get interesting. Each Business or Enterprise licence contributes its credits to a shared pool at the billing entity level rather than holding them per seat. A team of twenty on Business contributes 38,000 credits to one balance, so a heavy user draws from the same pot as a light one and nothing strands unused in an individual account.
One restriction is worth knowing before you subscribe: you cannot buy additional AI credits if you subscribe, or have ever subscribed, through GitHub Mobile on iOS or Android. An app store billing relationship permanently removes the top-up path.
What happens when you hit the limit
Work continues and bills. Usage past the allowance charges at $0.01 per AI credit on paid plans, with no throttling and no interruption. Since September 2026 admins can also set an expiration date on individual user budgets, which caps exposure per person rather than per organisation.
Copilot Free is the exception. It caps completions at 2,000 a month and has no purchase path.
How GitHub Copilot's pricing has changed across all these years
Date | Milestone | Source
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|---|---|---|
1 Sep 2026 | Admins can set an expiration date on individual user budgets | github.blog/changelog |
28 Aug 2026 | Business and Enterprise signups reopen from 1 September, with every seat charged upfront. Prices unchanged | github.blog/changelog |
1 Jun 2026 | All Copilot plans move to usage-based billing. Premium request units are replaced by GitHub AI Credits, billed on token consumption at published API rates | github.blog/changelog |
27 Apr 2026 | GitHub announces that Copilot code review will begin consuming GitHub Actions minutes from 1 June | github.blog/changelog |
18 Jun 2025 | Consumptive billing experience updated ahead of the wider shift | github.blog/changelog |
Source: github.blog/changelog, read 22 September 2026.
Customer
Sentiment Highlights
I stopped using GitHub Copilot extension in VS Code when they introduced their new pricing model
Former Copilot subscriber, Hacker News, September 2026
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