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GitHub Copilot

IDE and GitHub agent billed in AI credits.

GitHub documents Copilot Free, Student, Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise. Paid individual plans include a base credit allotment plus a flex allotment. Code completions and next-edit suggestions are not billed in AI credits and stay unlimited on paid plans. Copilot is not available for GitHub Enterprise Server.

Checked 15 Oct 2026 · Official site

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Pricing

As of 15 Oct 2026.

Pricing tiers for GitHub Copilot
Tier	Price	Billing	What the page states
Copilot Free	$0	Free	An allowance of AI credits Auto model selection only Limited agents 2,000 completions per month
Copilot Student	$0	Free for verified students	An allowance of AI credits Auto model selection only Excludes third-party agents
Copilot Pro	$10 USD/month	Monthly. Free for some users.	1,000 base credits 500 flex credits 1,500 total monthly credits A selection of models
Copilot Pro+	$39 USD/month	Monthly	3,900 base credits 3,100 flex credits 7,000 total monthly credits Premium models, including Opus and Fable on the model table
Copilot Max	$100 USD/month	Monthly	10,000 base credits 10,000 flex credits 20,000 total monthly credits Priority access to premium models
Copilot Business	$19 USD per granted seat/month	Per seat	1,900 AI credits per user per month Premium models Organization policy management
Copilot Enterprise	$39 USD per granted seat/month	Per granted seat. Requires GitHub Enterprise Cloud.	3,900 AI credits per user per month Priority access to premium models Audit logs Content exclusion

One GitHub AI Credit equals $0.01 on the usage-based billing docs.
Pro is described as free for some users. The plans page says verified teachers and maintainers of popular open source projects may be eligible for free Copilot Pro.
After included credits, additional usage can be billed. Organization and enterprise overage is $0.01 per AI credit.
The overview table lists base credits. The individual allowance table adds a flex allotment, so the total is higher than the base.

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Feature matrix

Features for GitHub Copilot
Price
Published from	Pro $10/mosource Lowest paid individual plan. Free is $0 with tighter limits.
Free tier	Yessource Copilot Free. Completions are limited to 2,000 per month. Agents are limited.
Product
Open source	Nosource A paid GitHub product. The plans page does not publish an open-source license.
Agent edits code	Yessource Agent mode is marked Included from Free through Enterprise. Free's overview cell still says agents are limited. Cloud agent is marked off on Free and on for Student, Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise.
Inline completion	Yessource Inline suggestions exist on the plans. Free is capped at 2,000 completions per month. Paid plans keep completions and next-edit suggestions unlimited.
Surfaces
CLI	Yessource Copilot CLI is marked on every plan in the feature tables, and the overview says all plans include it.
Models
Bring your own key	Unknownsource The plans page does not describe bringing your own provider API key.
MCP	Yessource Model Context Protocol is marked Included on Free through Enterprise in both the agents and customization tables.
Surfaces
Cloud agent	Not on Freesource Copilot cloud agent is marked off for Free and on for the other listed plans.
Price
Team or enterprise admin	Yessource Business and Enterprise include organization policy management, audit logs on those plans, and centralized seat billing.

Models

Free and Student use auto model selection only. On the individual model table, Pro includes Haiku 4.5 and 5.5, Sonnet 4.6, Sonnet 5, Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 3.7 Flash, Gemini 3.8 Flash, GPT-5 mini, GPT-5.3-Codex, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini, GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-6 Luna, Grok 4.5, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.7, Kimi K3, and MAI-Code-1.1-Flash. Opus 4.8, Opus 5, Opus 5.5, Fable 5, Fable 5.1, Gemini 4 Argon, GPT-5.4 nano, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6.1 Sol are marked on Pro+ and Max, not Pro. Sonnet 4.6 is marked on Pro and Pro+ and not on Max, Business, or Enterprise. GPT-5.4 nano is marked on Pro+ and Max only. A footnote says GPT-5.4 nano is only in the Codex Visual Studio Code extension.

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Platforms

IDEs, GitHub, Copilot CLI, and the Copilot app. The plans page says all plans include Copilot CLI and the Copilot app. Chat is also named in IDEs, GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Windows Terminal. Agent mode is marked on every individual and organization plan in the agents table. source

Changelog

1 Jun 2026

GitHub Copilot — Usage-based billing and Copilot Max

GitHub said usage-based billing was live for all Copilot users, and Copilot Max was available as an upgrade for existing Student, Pro, and Pro+ subscribers.

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17 Jun 2026

GitHub Copilot — Individual sign-ups reopening

GitHub said sign-ups for Student, Pro, Pro+, and Max would reopen gradually over the following weeks.

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28 Aug 2026

GitHub Copilot — Business and Enterprise billing changes

GitHub said Business and Enterprise prices were not changing, and that new credit-card or PayPal sign-ups would start to return on 1 September 2026, with upfront seat charges for existing card or PayPal customers from 1 October 2026.

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GitHub Copilot

Pricing

Feature matrix

Models

Platforms

Changelog

GitHub Copilot — Usage-based billing and Copilot Max

GitHub Copilot — Individual sign-ups reopening

GitHub Copilot — Business and Enterprise billing changes

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