GitHub Copilot’s usage-based billing is live: Here’s what you need to know
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GitHub has officially retired Copilot's premium request model and replaced it with a token-based billing system using AI Credits. Plan prices remain unchanged, but usage is now metered by token consumption across input, output, and cached data. Individual Pro users ($10/month) get $15 in monthly credits, Pro+ ($39/month) gets $70, and a new Copilot Max plan at $100/month includes $200 in credits. Credits include a fixed base allotment plus a variable 'flex allotment' that GitHub can adjust as AI costs evolve. Business and enterprise tiers pool credits at the org level rather than per-user buckets, with a layered budget control system including user-level budgets, cost center budgets, and enterprise-wide caps. Critically, the enterprise budget only limits metered overage charges after the shared pool is exhausted — not total spend. Model choice now directly impacts cost, with prices ranging from $0.25/million tokens (GPT-5 mini) to $5.00/million tokens (GPT-5.5 or Claude Opus 4.8). Some users report significant bill increases, while others acknowledge GitHub was subsidizing heavy agentic usage under the old model.
