Important
- Billing for premium requests began on June 18, 2025 for all paid Copilot plans, and the request counters were only set to zero for paid plans.
- Billing for premium requests is not available if you use GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency. This means premium requests are not counted and you will not be charged for them. Support for premium request billing in data residency environments is coming soon.
- Premium request counters reset on the 1st of each month at 00:00:00 UTC. See Monitoring your Copilot usage and entitlements.
- Certain requests may experience rate limits to accommodate high demand. Rate limits restrict the number of requests that can be made within a specific time period.
What is a request?
A request is any interaction where you ask Copilot to do something for you—whether it’s generating code, answering a question, or helping you through an extension. Each time you send a prompt in a chat window or trigger a response from Copilot, you’re making a request.
What are premium requests?
Some Copilot features use more advanced processing power and count as premium requests. The number of premium requests a feature consumes can vary depending on the feature and the AI model used.
Premium features
The following Copilot features can use premium requests.
| Feature | Premium request consumption |
|---|---|
| Copilot Chat | Copilot Chat uses one premium request per user prompt, multiplied by the model's rate. |
| Copilot coding agent | Copilot coding agent uses one premium request per session. A session begins when you ask Copilot to create a pull request or make one or more changes to an existing pull request. |
| Agent mode in Copilot Chat | Agent mode uses one premium request per user prompt, multiplied by the model's rate. |
| Copilot code review | When you assign Copilot as a reviewer for a pull request, one premium request is used each time Copilot posts comments to the pull request. |
| Copilot Extensions | Copilot Extensions uses one premium request per user prompt, multiplied by the model's rate. |
| Copilot Spaces | Copilot Spaces uses one premium request per user prompt, multiplied by the model's rate. |
| Spark | Each prompt to Spark uses a fixed rate of four premium requests. |
How do request allowances work per plan?
If you use Copilot Free, your plan comes with up to 2,000 code completion requests and up to 50 premium requests per month. All chat interactions count as premium requests.
If you're on a paid plan, you get unlimited code completions and unlimited chat interactions using the included models (GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o). Rate limiting is in place to accommodate for high demand. See Rate limits for GitHub Copilot.
Paid plans also receive a monthly allowance of premium requests, which can be used for advanced chat interactions, code completions using premium models, and other premium features. For an overview of the amount of premium requests included in each plan, see Plans for GitHub Copilot.
Note
If a user has licenses from multiple enterprises, or standalone organizations, they must make a selection using the "Usage billed to" drop down in order to utilize premium requests. The billing entity selected will be billed for any premium requests they make. See Monitoring your Copilot usage and entitlements.
What happens to unused requests at the end of the month?
Unused requests for the previous month do not carry over to the following month.
What if I run out of premium requests?
Note
Additional premium requests are not available to:
- Users on Copilot Free. To access more premium requests, upgrade to a paid plan.
- Users who subscribe, or have subscribed, to Copilot Pro or Copilot Pro+ through GitHub Mobile on iOS or Android.
If you're on a paid plan and use all of your premium requests, you can still use Copilot with one of the included models for the rest of the month. This is subject to change. Response times for the included models may vary during periods of high usage. Requests to the included models may be subject to rate limiting. See Rate limits for GitHub Copilot.
If you need more premium requests beyond your monthly allowance, you can:
- Set a spending limit for additional premium requests. See Setting up budgets to control spending on metered products.
- Upgrade your individual subscription to a higher plan.
- If you're an enterprise owner, edit the default $0 budget or upgrade members to Copilot Enterprise. See Managing the premium request allowance for users in your enterprise.
These actions can be taken by enterprise owners, organization owners, billing managers, and personal account users.
Important
By default, all budgets are set to zero and premium requests over the allowance are rejected unless a budget has been created. Additional premium requests beyond your plan’s included amount are billed at $0.04 USD per request.
Model multipliers
The available models vary depending on your Copilot plan. See Plans for GitHub Copilot.
Note
The models included with Copilot plans are subject to change.
Each model has a premium request multiplier, based on its complexity and resource usage. If you are on a paid Copilot plan, your premium request allowance is deducted according to this multiplier.
GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o are the included models, and do not consume any premium requests if you are on a paid plan.
If you use Copilot Free, you have access to a limited number of models, and each model will consume one premium request when used. For example, if you make a request using the Gemini 2.0 Flash model, your interaction will consume one premium request, not 0.25 premium requests.
| Model | Multiplier for paid plans | Multiplier for Copilot Free |
|---|---|---|
| GPT-4.1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-4o | 0 | 1 |
| Claude Sonnet 3.5 | 1 | 1 |
| Claude Sonnet 3.7 | 1 | Not applicable |
| Claude Sonnet 3.7 Thinking | 1.25 | Not applicable |
| Claude Sonnet 4 | 1 | Not applicable |
| Claude Opus 4 | 10 | Not applicable |
| Gemini 2.0 Flash | 0.25 | 1 |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | 1 | Not applicable |
| o3 | 1 | Not applicable |
| o4-mini | 0.33 | Not applicable |
Examples of premium request usage
Premium request usage is based on the model’s multiplier and the feature you’re using. For example:
- Using Claude Opus 4 in Copilot Chat: With a 10× multiplier, one interaction counts as 10 premium requests.
- Using GPT-4.1 on Copilot Free: Each interaction counts as 1 premium request.
- Using GPT-4.1 on a paid plan: No premium requests are consumed.