As announced in our recent blog post, usage-based billing for GitHub Copilot is now live for all users and Copilot code review consumes GitHub Actions minutes, in addition to GitHub AI Credits.

As part of this release, we’re also launching new user-level budget controls and enabling upgrades to Copilot Max.

Usage-based billing is active for all Copilot plans

As of June 1, all Copilot plans bill based on GitHub AI Credits consumed. Each plan comes with monthly included usage. To find more details about what’s included in each plan, please review the documentation for usage-based billing for individuals and usage-based billing for organizations and enterprises.

After you consume your included AI Credits, you can continue to spend additional AI Credits and be billed at the end of the month by setting an additional spending budget. For individual plans, we may limit your total additional AI Credits based on your usage patterns, billing history, and verification status for your user account. To continue spending AI Credits, we recommend upgrading to the next plan for more included and additional usage limits.

Configure a default Actions runner for Copilot code review

As of June 1, Copilot code review consumes Actions minutes, in addition to GitHub AI Credits. By default, Copilot code review will use a standard GitHub-hosted runner, but organization admins can now set a default runner to be used automatically across all repositories, without requiring each repository to be individually configured. To learn more, see Configure runners at the organization level.

Control spending with user-level budgets

For customers needing more granular spend controls, user-level budgets are now generally available for organizations and enterprises. Admins can now set a universal budget for users or override for specific sets of users. As users approach their budgets, admins will receive email notifications and can adjust budgets anytime from their billing settings. For AI credits, user-level budgets control total usage, not just additional spend. See our budget management documentation for more details.

Copilot Max: optimized for power users

Copilot Max is available today as an upgrade for existing Student, Pro, and Pro+ subscribers, with higher included usage and higher spending limits to support more intensive workflows. New user sign-ups will open in the coming weeks.

New sign-ups remain paused

New user sign-ups remain paused for Copilot Student, Pro, Pro+, and Max plans. We’ll reopen sign-ups in the coming weeks.

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