GitHub Copilot Pricing 2026: Plans, AI Credits, and What Changed June 1

GitHub Copilot pricing changed more this year than in its whole history: on June 1, 2026, every plan moved from unlimited-feeling premium requests to a metered AI Credits system. Verified July 10, 2026, the plans run Free, Pro at $10, Pro+ at $39, Max at $100, Business at $19 a seat, and Enterprise at $39 a seat - each with a monthly credit allowance where one credit equals $0.01. Sticker prices held steady. What a dollar buys did not.

AI Credits Replaced Premium Requests on June 1

Here is the new mechanic in one paragraph. Inline code completions and next-edit suggestions are free and unmetered on every paid plan. Chat, agent mode, code review, and Copilot CLI draw from your monthly credit pool at one cent per credit, with different actions burning different amounts. Run out and paid plans can buy more; Free pauses until the monthly reset.

First invoices under the new system landed this month, and the reaction was loud - we covered the fallout when the first metered bills hit developers. Developers rarely read billing posts until the invoice arrives; July proved that at scale.

Free Plan: 2,000 Completions and Not Much Else

Free covers 2,000 completions a month plus limited chat and agent access. Completions alone make it a decent autocomplete tool for light coding. Anyone using chat daily will hit the ceiling within days, which is the point.

Pro, Pro+, and Max: $10 to $100 for Individuals

Pro at $10 includes $15 in monthly credits and unmetered completions - enough for developers whose Copilot use is mostly autocomplete plus occasional chat. Pro+ at $39 raises the pool to $70 for people running agent mode and code review through the day.

Max at $100 carries $200 in credits - 2.9x the Pro+ pool - plus priority access to new models. GitHub built it for sustained agent work, and the credit math only closes if agents genuinely run most of your working day.

Business and Enterprise: Seats at $19 and $39

Business costs $19 per seat with $19 in monthly credits per seat, adding policy management, license administration, and IP indemnity - the clause legal teams ask about first. Enterprise at $39 a seat requires GitHub Enterprise Cloud and raises the credit allowance along with knowledge-base features.

Seat prices did not move in the June change, but per-seat credit pools mean one agent-happy engineer can now exhaust a seat's allowance mid-month. Admins get spend controls; they should actually set them.

Three Billing Catches to Know

GitHub Copilot pricing looks unchanged on the surface, and that is the first catch: the same $10 buys metered usage that used to feel unlimited. Watch your credit burn in the first month before trusting old habits.

Second: credit consumption varies by model - premium models burn credits faster inside the same chat panel, so the model picker is now a budget control. Third: overage is opt-in per plan, and leaving it enabled without a spend cap is how the July billing-shock stories happened.

Which Copilot Plan Should You Pick

GitHub Copilot pricing rewards measuring before upgrading. Autocomplete-mostly developers should sit on Pro at $10 - completions cost nothing there. Daily agent users belong on Pro+ at $39, and only all-day agent workflows justify Max. Teams take Business for the IP indemnity alone. Before committing anywhere, compare the field: our GitHub Copilot vs Cursor vs Tabnine guide covers the rivals, and Cursor pricing gets its own breakdown.

For the wider market - what every AI provider charges and where coding tools fit - see our full guide to AI pricing, and the Claude pricing page covers Claude Code, Copilot's fastest-growing agent rival.