GitHub Copilot Pricing in 2026: Every Plan and How AI Credits Work

The short answer

GitHub Copilot costs $0 on Free, $10 a month on Pro, $39 on Pro+, $100 on Max, $19 per seat on Business and $39 per seat on Enterprise. Usage is billed in GitHub AI Credits at $0.01 each, which replaced the old premium request system. Code completions remain unlimited on every paid plan.

Note: Prices checked on Aug 02, 2026, against Anthropic's official pricing page.

Key takeaways

• Premium requests are gone. Billing is now GitHub AI Credits at $0.01 each, and any guide still quoting a per-premium-request price is out of date.

• Every paid plan bundles a credit allowance split into base and flex, and GitHub says flex allotments may change over time. Your included usage is not a fixed quantity.

• Code completions and next edit suggestions consume no credits and stay unlimited on paid plans. Agents and chat are what actually draw down the balance.

• Business and Enterprise get a credit pool with no published size, so the only way to know your run rate is to measure it.

• Guickly shows Copilot credit burn by team next to every other AI tool you run, so the overage is a forecast rather than a surprise.

GitHub rewrote how Copilot is billed, and the rewrite is more interesting than the price list. The seat price is now the smaller half of the question.

How much does GitHub Copilot cost in 2026?

GitHub publishes monthly rates only. There is no annual or discounted-annual price for any Copilot plan, so treat any annual figure you see elsewhere as invented.

What are GitHub AI Credits?

GitHub's own definition: AI Credits are how you pay for AI usage in Copilot, every plan includes a monthly allowance, and 1 AI credit equals $0.01.

That single line reframes the product. Copilot is no longer a seat licence with soft limits. It is a seat licence with a metered wallet attached.

Note what that table actually says. On Pro you pay $10 and receive $15 of credits. On Max you pay $100 and receive $200. The flex portion is the part GitHub explicitly reserves the right to change: flex allotments may change over time. So your included usage is a policy, not a contract.

What happens when you run out of credits?

Credits draw down at $0.01 each, so a $10 budget covers 1,000 credits. Additional credits can be purchased on Pro, Pro+ and Max. Budget alerts fire at 75%, 90% and 100% of whatever budget you set.

Two admin policies gate organisation overage: GitHub AI Credits paid usage, and whether members without a Copilot licence may use Copilot code review. If you have not looked at those, look, because they decide whether your org can spend beyond its allowance at all.

What does not consume credits?

This is the most useful thing to know, and the most misread.

In GitHub's words: code completions and next edit suggestions don't use credits, and they remain unlimited with every paid plan.

So the autocomplete that most developers think of as being Copilot is free at the margin. What draws down credits is agent work and chat. Which means credit burn does not track headcount. It tracks how many people have moved from autocomplete to agents, and that is a behavioural shift you will not see on a seat report.

What changed, and when

That 1 June change deserves attention because it is the sort of thing that never reaches finance. Copilot code review now bills into a second meter, your Actions minutes. Your Copilot spend and your Actions spend are now coupled, and they almost certainly sit in different budget lines owned by different people.

How much does Copilot cost for a team?

Seats are the easy part. Twenty developers on Business is $380 a month. The honest answer is that you cannot forecast the rest from published numbers, because GitHub does not publish the credit pool size for Business or Enterprise. Both are described only as a monthly pool and a larger monthly pool.

So the model is: a floor you can calculate, plus a variable you cannot, plus a second meter in Actions minutes that a different team owns.

The way through it is measurement rather than arithmetic. Watch credit burn per team over a few weeks, find the ratio of agent users to autocomplete users, and forecast from your own data. There is no published figure that substitutes for that.

Is GitHub Copilot worth it?

At $10 for Pro, for a developer who uses completions daily, the maths is not close. Completions are unlimited and consume no credits.

The question gets harder at Pro+ and Max, and at the org tiers, because you are then buying agent capacity. That is worth it exactly when agents are shipping work, and worth nothing when the seats sit idle at full price. Which is a usage question, not a pricing question.

That is the gap we built Guickly to close. Copilot credit burn by team, sitting next to your OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini spend, tied to what each dollar produced. If a credit overage would reach you as an invoice rather than a forecast, you are flying on the meter GitHub can see and you cannot.

To see your own Copilot spend next to the rest of your AI stack, book a 15-minute walkthrough with the founder of Guickly.

FAQ

How much does GitHub Copilot cost in 2026? Free is $0. Pro is $10 per user per month, Pro+ is $39, and Max is $100. Business is $19 per seat per month and Enterprise is $39. GitHub publishes monthly rates only, with no annual pricing for any plan.

What are GitHub AI Credits? AI Credits are how GitHub bills Copilot usage. One credit equals $0.01. Every plan includes a monthly allowance, and credits draw down as you use agents and chat. They replaced the retired premium request system.

Did GitHub remove premium requests? Yes. Premium requests no longer appear in GitHub's pricing, and there is no published per-premium-request rate. Usage is now measured in AI Credits at $0.01 each. Any guide quoting a premium request allowance or price is describing a retired system.

How many AI Credits does each Copilot plan include? Pro includes $15 a month, made up of $10 base and $5 flex. Pro+ includes $70, being $39 base and $31 flex. Max includes $200, being $100 base and $100 flex. GitHub states that flex allotments may change over time. Business and Enterprise receive a credit pool whose size GitHub does not publish.

Do code completions use AI Credits? No. GitHub states that code completions and next edit suggestions do not use credits and remain unlimited on every paid plan. Credits are consumed by agent work and chat, which is why credit burn tracks behaviour rather than headcount.

What happens if you exceed your Copilot credits? Credits draw down at $0.01 each, so a $10 budget covers 1,000 credits. Additional credits can be purchased on Pro, Pro+ and Max. Budget alerts fire at 75%, 90% and 100%. Organisation overage is gated by an admin policy called GitHub AI Credits paid usage.

What is GitHub Copilot Max? Max is a tier at $100 per user per month, marked by GitHub as best value. It includes $200 of monthly AI Credits, split as $100 base and $100 flex, making it aimed at heavy agent use rather than autocomplete.

Does Copilot code review cost extra? Since 1 June 2026, code review workflows also consume GitHub Actions minutes in addition to Copilot billing. That means Copilot code review draws on two meters, and Actions minutes usually sit in a different budget line from Copilot seats.

What is the difference between Copilot Business and Enterprise? Business is $19 per seat per month and Enterprise is $39. Enterprise receives a larger monthly credit pool, though GitHub publishes no figure for either pool. Both add organisation-level policy controls that individual plans do not have.