GitHub Copilot drops premium request units on June 1, 2026. Every plan converts to GitHub AI Credits billed by token consumption: input, output, and cached tokens at published API rates per model. Base prices hold. Pro stays at $10/month, Pro+ at $39/month, Business at $19/user/month, Enterprise at $39/user/month. Each plan's monthly credit allotment matches its dollar price, one dollar equals one dollar of credits.
The driver is agentic usage. Copilot now runs multi-step, multi-hour autonomous coding sessions across entire repositories, and GitHub has been absorbing the inference cost gap between a one-line chat query and a full autonomous run. That subsidy ends. The fallback model behavior also ends: users who exhaust credits hit admin-set budget caps, not a degraded model. Code completions and Next Edit suggestions remain outside the credit system entirely. Business and Enterprise customers get a promotional buffer of $30 and $70 in monthly credits respectively for June through August, plus pooled credits across the org to eliminate stranded per-seat waste.
The article is worth reading in full for three specific details that matter operationally: the model multiplier table taking effect June 1 for annual plan subscribers only, the mechanics of prorated credit conversion for users who exit annual plans early, and the new enterprise budget controls that let admins set spend limits at the enterprise, cost center, and individual user levels. A preview billing dashboard goes live in early May at github.com so admins can see projected costs before the transition hits.
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