GitHub Copilot changelog

Copilot Automations adds AI credit limits per run, day, week or month

You can set optional AI credit limits on each automation. Automations without limits keep running as before.

Who is affected:

Teams using Copilot Automations on Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise plans.

What to do:

Set credit limits when creating or editing an automation.

GitHub Enterprise now includes Copilot for every licensed user, Standalone is $10

Enterprises working with a GitHub or Microsoft account team can get Copilot included with GitHub Enterprise. Users without an Enterprise license get Copilot Standalone at $10 per user per month, with no monthly AI credits per seat.

Who is affected:

Enterprise admins and users on GitHub Enterprise Cloud who manage Copilot seats and AI usage budgets.

What to do:

Talk to your sales team about moving an enterprise account to the new model, or keep your current plan.

Copilot Automations adds shared automations billed to the repository owner

Shared automations are visible to everyone with repository read access and billed to the repository owner instead of the creator. They are rolling out on Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans.

Who is affected:

Teams using Copilot Automations and organization admins who pay for AI credits.

What to do:

Org admins should enable the cloud agent billed to the organization policy to allow shared automations.

Copilot cloud sandboxes bill from November 2026 against a shared Actions entitlement

The included Actions compute entitlement becomes one shared, dollar-based pool instead of a fixed number of standard runner minutes. It covers standard runners, cloud sandboxes, and larger runners on Team and Enterprise Cloud. Billing for cloud sandbox usage begins in November 2026.

Who is affected:

Paid Copilot users and GitHub Free, Pro, Team and Enterprise Cloud accounts that use cloud sessions or Actions.

Action needed:

Review Actions budgets and usage, since higher-rate compute uses the entitlement faster.

Copilot Business and Enterprise sign-ups reopen for card and PayPal customers

GitHub is gradually reopening Copilot Business and Enterprise sign-ups for customers paying by card or PayPal, with stricter account vetting. New seats must be paid before access, and usage beyond the included amount may need extra payment.

Copilot model access now follows the organization that pays for your usage

For users with Copilot seats in more than one organization, model access is now decided only by the billing organization. Before, a model was usable if any of the organizations enabled it. Access that comes entirely through an enterprise is unchanged.

Who is affected:

Copilot users with seats in several GitHub organizations.

What to do:

Check which organization is listed under Usage billed to if a model disappeared.

Copilot Business and Enterprise seats billed upfront for card and PayPal customers

New Copilot Business and Enterprise seats require payment before access. From October 1, 2026, existing card and PayPal customers are charged upfront for assigned seats at the start of each billing cycle. Prices are unchanged.

Who is affected:

Copilot Business and Enterprise customers paying by credit card or PayPal.

What to do:

Check seat assignments before your next billing cycle starts.

Copilot individual plan sign-ups reopen

GitHub began reopening sign-ups for Copilot Student, Pro, Pro+ and Max gradually, and added pay-as-you-go for usage beyond plan limits.

Copilot switches all plans to usage-based billing

All Copilot plans now bill by GitHub AI Credits consumed, with monthly included usage and optional extra spend. Copilot code review also consumes GitHub Actions minutes, and a new Copilot Max plan is available as an upgrade.

Who is affected:

Every Copilot subscriber and organization.

Action needed:

Set spending budgets and check what your plan includes.

GitHub Copilot moves all plans to usage-based AI Credits from June 1, 2026

GitHub announced that every Copilot plan would switch from premium requests to a monthly allotment of GitHub AI Credits on June 1, 2026, with usage priced on input, output and cached tokens at each model's API rates. The Hacker News thread drew 767 points and 553 comments.

Who is affected:

All GitHub Copilot subscribers, especially heavy agent users.

Action needed:

Review your AI Credits usage in Copilot settings and set a budget.

Copilot pauses Pro sign-ups, tightens limits and removes Opus from Pro

GitHub paused new sign-ups for Copilot Student, Pro and Pro+, tightened usage limits on individual plans, and removed Opus models from Copilot Pro. Subscribers could cancel for a refund until May 20.

Who is affected:

Copilot Pro, Pro+ and Student subscribers.

Action needed:

If Opus on Pro was important to you, upgrade to Pro+ or request a refund before May 20.

Copilot enforces new usage limits and retires Opus 4.6 Fast from Pro+

GitHub began rolling out service reliability limits and per-model limits for Copilot, and retired Opus 4.6 Fast for Copilot Pro+ users.

Who is affected:

Heavy Copilot users who send many concurrent requests.

Action needed:

Spread requests over time, switch models or use Auto when you hit a model limit.