GitHub Copilot goes metered

Microsoft is preparing to bill GitHub Copilot by usage, replacing the simpler flat-fee model that helped turn it into a standard coding subscription. (wheresyoured.at) Internal documents reviewed by Where’s Your Ed At say the change is planned for June, with Copilot Business priced at $19 per user per month and bundled with $30 of pooled artificial intelligence credits. Copilot Enterprise is listed at $39 per user per month with $70 of pooled credits. (wheresyoured.at) GitHub already prices Copilot Business at $19 a seat and Copilot Enterprise at $39 a seat in its billing docs. Those same docs say Copilot usage is now tracked through licenses plus monthly usage, not just a seat assignment. (docs.github.com) The company has spent the last year moving Copilot toward metering in smaller steps. GitHub’s June 18, 2025 changelog said monthly premium request allowances for paid Copilot users had gone into effect across Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans. (github.blog) A premium request is GitHub’s current unit for advanced model use: one chat or agent action can count as more than one request if it uses a larger context window or a heavier reasoning model. GitHub says overages can already be billed at a standard rate when customers exceed their included allowance and have overages enabled. (docs.github.com) GitHub also says organizations and enterprises can set budgets for Copilot premium requests at the organization, enterprise, or cost-center level. Its admin docs say paid usage over the allowance is enabled by default for organizations and enterprises unless a budget caps spending. (docs.github.com, docs.github.com) The timing follows a visible capacity squeeze. On April 20, GitHub said it was pausing new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans, tightening usage limits, and changing model availability “to protect the experience for existing customers.” (github.blog) GitHub said “agentic workflows” had changed Copilot’s compute demands, a reference to newer tools that do more than autocomplete and can run multi-step tasks with bigger model calls. In a separate docs update for individuals, GitHub said premium request quotas renew monthly and apply to advanced models and features. (github.blog, docs.github.com) Microsoft and GitHub have not publicly confirmed the June token-pricing details in the leaked documents. But GitHub’s own pricing, budgeting, and request-tracking changes show the company has already rebuilt Copilot around metered consumption, even before the reported switch becomes official. (wheresyoured.at, docs.github.com, docs.github.com)