What does a GitHub Copilot plan give you per month?

As of 18 October 2026, GitHub's Copilot plans page lists Free at $0, Pro at $10, Pro+ at $39 and Max at $100 per month. Usage is measured in GitHub AI Credits, where one credit equals $0.01. GitHub does not publish a monthly token count per plan on that page.

Everything below comes from GitHub's own pages, fetched on 18 October 2026. Prices and allowances change, so check the live page before you budget. This post says nothing about what any model costs GitHub to run.

What are GitHub AI Credits?

GitHub's FAQ says AI Credits are how you pay for AI usage in Copilot, with every plan including a monthly allowance. You use credits when you chat with Copilot, work with agents, or use Copilot CLI, Spaces and Spark. Code completions and next edit suggestions do not use credits, and GitHub says they remain unlimited on every paid plan.

How many credits an interaction uses depends on the model you choose and the complexity of the task. GitHub's example: a quick question to a lightweight model costs a fraction of a credit, while a longer agent session on a frontier model across many files costs more.

So there is no fixed answer to "how many requests do I get." It depends on what you ask and which model answers.

What does each plan include?

The plans page shows a base amount and a flex amount for each paid plan.

• Free: $0. Limited chat and agent usage. The page says Free supports the CLI and agent mode. No flex allotment and no option to purchase more credits.
• Pro: $10 per month in base credits plus a $5 flex allotment, shown as $15 in total.
• Pro+: $39 per month in base credits plus a $31 flex allotment, shown as $70 in total.
• Max: $100 per month in base credits plus a $100 flex allotment, shown as $200 in total.

The page describes the flex allotment as variable additional usage on top of your base, and says flex allotments may change over time. Plan your usage around the base amount, and treat flex as a bonus that could shrink.

Pro, Pro+ and Max can purchase additional credits. Pooled usage, where included credits are shared across an organization with admin spending controls, is shown as not included on any of these four plans.

What happens when you run out?

GitHub lists four options: wait for the monthly reset, set a dollar budget for additional usage so Copilot continues, switch to a cheaper model, or on Business and Enterprise plans, rely on admin-set limits. Credits draw down at $0.01 each, so GitHub's example says a $10 budget covers 1,000 credits. Alerts fire at 75, 90 and 100 percent of a configured budget.

On Business and Enterprise, admins set usage limits and decide whether additional paid usage is allowed. If it is not, Copilot pauses until the next cycle. This post does not cover Business or Enterprise prices because the plans page does not show them in the section we fetched.

Are there costs outside credits?

Two details from GitHub's pages are worth noting.

• GitHub says that beginning June 1, 2026, code review workflows also consume GitHub Actions minutes.
• Usage from people without a Copilot license, when an admin enables Copilot code review for them, is billed to the organization as AI Credits. GitHub says this is off by default and needs two separate policies enabled.

What about older plans?

GitHub's docs keep a page for a legacy model. It applies only to Pro and Pro+ subscribers on an existing annual plan who stayed on premium request billing after June 1, 2026. On that model the docs give 300 premium requests per month for Pro and 1,500 for Pro+, with extra requests at $0.04 each, and say Copilot code review has a model multiplier of 13. If you are on an annual plan, check which model applies to you before comparing numbers.

What to do

1. Open your Copilot billing settings and find your base and flex amounts.
2. Set a dollar budget for additional usage, and keep the 75 percent alert on.
3. Choose a lightweight model for routine questions, and reserve large models for work that needs them.
4. Track one week of real usage before you decide whether to change plans.
5. If you run an organization, decide whether non-licensed code review is worth turning on, and who watches the spend.
6. Recheck this page monthly. Flex amounts are described as changeable.

Quick check

Sources

• GitHub Copilot plans and pricing, fetched 18 October 2026
• GitHub Docs, Requests in GitHub Copilot (legacy), fetched 18 October 2026

Last reviewed: 18 October 2026.