GitHub Copilot Pricing: Free, Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise

Quick answer: which GitHub Copilot plan fits your development workflow?

Start with GitHub Copilot Pro ($10/month) if you are an individual developer or open-source contributor. It provides unlimited code completions and next edit suggestions, a selection of current models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others, and 1,500 monthly GitHub AI Credits (1,000 base plus 500 flex) for chat and agentic work.

Choose GitHub Copilot Pro+ ($39/month) if you rely heavily on agent mode, the Copilot CLI, and premium models across large repositories. Pro+ includes 7,000 monthly AI Credits (3,900 base plus 3,100 flex) and access to premium models.

Choose GitHub Copilot Max ($100/month) if you are an engineering power user orchestrating long-running agentic workflows. Max provides 20,000 monthly AI Credits (10,000 base plus 10,000 flex) and priority access to premium models.

Choose GitHub Copilot Business ($19/seat/month) or Copilot Enterprise ($39/seat/month) if you are an engineering organization requiring centralized seat provisioning, corporate IP indemnification, policy enforcement (blocking public code suggestions), telemetry privacy, and pooled credit budgets.

GitHub Copilot pricing plans comparison 2026

The table below provides a comparison of the current individual and organizational GitHub Copilot plans:

How GitHub AI Credits and usage-based billing work

On June 1, 2026, GitHub replaced request-based billing (premium requests with model multipliers) with usage-based billing measured in GitHub AI Credits:

The Credit Valuation and Consumption Ratio

• Fixed Valuation: 1 GitHub AI Credit = exactly $0.01 USD.
• What Does Not Consume Credits:
• Inline code completions and Next Edit Suggestions (NES) are not billed in AI Credits and are unlimited on paid plans. Copilot Free includes 2,000 completions per month.
• What Consumes AI Credits:
• Chat and agent mode: Each interaction consumes credits based on the model and the input, output, and cached tokens it uses, at the listed API rates for that model.
• Copilot CLI: Terminal sessions where Copilot inspects directory trees, reads error logs, runs tests, and fixes code consume credits for their model usage.
• Copilot cloud agents and code review: Background issue work, pull request generation, and code review consume credits for the model portion; code review also uses GitHub Actions minutes.
• Premium models: Larger models cost more per token, so the same task consumes more credits on them.

For example, a chat turn with 20,000 input tokens and 1,000 output tokens costs about 5 credits on Claude Sonnet 5.5 ($2 input / $10 output per million tokens) and about half a credit on GPT-5.6 Luna ($0.20 / $1.20). An agentic task with 200,000 input tokens (160,000 of them cached) and 10,000 output tokens costs about 20 credits on Claude Sonnet 5.5 at its $0.10 cached-input rate, so Pro's 1,500 credits cover roughly 75 such tasks.

Credit reset schedule and overage budget management

Managing credit boundaries ensures continuous development throughput without surprise invoices:

• Calendar Reset: Included credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on the first day of each calendar month and do not roll over.
• Organization Pooling: On Business and Enterprise, allowances pool at the billing-entity level. An organization with 20 Business seats shares a monthly pool of 38,000 AI Credits (20 seats × 1,900 credits), worth $380.
• Configurable Budgets:
• Individuals and organizations can set budgets for paid usage beyond the included allowance.
• Additional usage is charged at $0.01 per AI Credit.
• Depending on budget settings, usage beyond the allowance either continues as paid usage or stops until the next monthly reset, while code completions continue.

Multi-model selection in Copilot

GitHub Copilot is no longer tethered to a single model. Paid subscribers can choose among current models from several providers, and credits are charged at each model's API rates:

Business vs Enterprise: organization governance and IP defense

Choosing between organizational tiers hinges on compliance, security, and repository-specific intelligence:

GitHub Copilot Business ($19/seat/mo)

• Public Code Filter: Automatically detects and blocks code completions that match public GitHub repositories, preventing accidental license contamination.
• Data Exclusion Guarantee: Business code snippets, chat prompts, and telemetry are excluded from being used to train foundation AI models.
• Centralized Seat Management: IT administrators can assign seats via GitHub Organizations, GitHub Teams, or SCIM integration through Okta, Azure AD, or Google Workspace.
• Commercial IP Indemnification: GitHub defends customers against third-party copyright claims arising from code generated by Copilot.
• Pooled Credits: 1,900 AI Credits per user per month, pooled across the organization with admin budgets.

GitHub Copilot Enterprise ($39/seat/mo)

• Knowledge Base Indexing: Indexes your organization’s private repositories and documentation so Copilot answers architecture questions based on your own frameworks.
• Pull Request Summaries: Automatically generates PR descriptions, breaking down modified files, architectural impacts, and testing considerations.
• GitHub.com Chat: Integrates conversational Copilot directly inside the GitHub web interface for issue review, code search, and discussions.
• Larger Pooled Credits: 3,900 AI Credits per user per month and access to premium models.

Upgrade triggers: when should you step up?

1. Move from Free to Pro ($10/mo) when:

• You hit the 2,000 monthly completion ceiling or exhaust the Free credit allowance in under a week.
• You want to choose models such as Claude Sonnet 5.5 or GPT-6 Sol instead of automatic selection.
• You want unlimited completions across multiple IDE installations.

2. Move from Pro to Pro+ ($39/mo) or Max ($100/mo) when:

• You frequently use agent mode to transform 5+ files at a time.
• You run the Copilot CLI in your terminal as an autonomous agent to triage bugs and run local test suites.
• Your 1,500 monthly AI Credits run dry before mid-month.

3. Move from Individual to Business ($19/seat/mo) when:

• You hire employees or contractors and need centralized license provisioning and revoking.
• Legal counsel requires intellectual property indemnification and public code matching filters.
• You need centralized accounting on a single corporate invoice.

Budget watchouts and common misconceptions

• Premium Requests Are Legacy: Monthly premium request allowances with model multipliers were replaced by AI Credits on June 1, 2026. They still apply only to existing annual Copilot Pro and Pro+ plans until those plans end.
• Free Trial Renewal Timing: GitHub's free trial on individual Pro plans automatically renews into a paid monthly subscription unless cancelled before it ends.
• Student Access: Verified students can use the free Copilot Student plan, which includes unlimited code completions and an AI Credit allowance.