GitHub Copilot’s pricing has gone through two full billing-model changes in about a year, and the current structure — GitHub AI Credits — is barely two months old as of this writing. If you priced Copilot out before June 2026, the numbers you remember are the sticker prices, but the meter underneath them has changed.
Start with what’s free. Copilot Free gives you 2,000 completions a month, access to smaller models like Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5 mini, and Copilot CLI, no credit card required. That’s real usage, not a trial, and it’s enough for occasional completions or light chat. It becomes limiting fast if you lean on agent mode or code review, both of which are metered on every paid tier.
The individual paid tiers are Pro ($10/user/mo), Pro+ ($39/user/mo), and Max ($100/user/mo), each carrying a monthly GitHub AI Credits allowance: $15 on Pro, $70 on Pro+, $200 on Max. Notice the same pattern Cursor uses — the credit allowance doesn’t track 1:1 with price on the higher tiers. Pro+ costs about 4x Pro but gets roughly 4.7x the credits, and Max costs 2.6x Pro+ but gets about 2.9x the credits. GitHub frames this as “4x+ included usage” and “2.9x+ included usage” over the tier below, which is accurate but easy to misread as a straight multiplier on price. Pro includes unlimited code completions and Next Edit suggestions (those never touch your credit balance on any plan), plus cloud agent access, code review, and — notably — access to third-party agents including Claude Code and Codex running through Copilot’s interface. Pro+ adds premium models like Opus and audit logs; Max adds priority access to new models on top of Pro+‘s feature set. The jump from Pro to Pro+ is really about model access and credit headroom, not a locked feature you can’t get otherwise.
Team and org plans run on a separate structure: Business is $19/user/mo with 1,900 GitHub AI Credits per user monthly, org-level policy and license management, and IP indemnity that individual plans don’t carry. Enterprise is $39/user/mo and adds codebase indexing for more tailored suggestions plus a native chat interface inside GitHub.com itself, along with access to custom fine-tuned completion models. Business and Enterprise are managed by a GitHub admin rather than self-serve, and GitHub explicitly confirmed in its June 2026 pricing update that neither price changed in the billing-model transition.
That transition is worth understanding on its own, because it’s happened twice. Copilot originally shipped premium models as effectively flat-rate: you paid your plan price and used what was included without a separate meter for “premium” usage. In June 2025, GitHub introduced premium request units (PRUs), a per-request counter that charged more heavily for premium-model calls than for standard completions — this is the “premium requests” concept a lot of comparison content still references. That system lasted almost exactly a year. On June 1, 2026, GitHub retired PRUs entirely in favor of GitHub AI Credits, a token-consumption model: instead of counting requests, Copilot now meters actual input, output, and cached tokens against each model’s published API rate. GitHub’s own announcement was candid about why — a quick chat question and a multi-hour agentic session used to cost the same one PRU, which stopped making sense as agent mode became Copilot’s dominant use case. Base subscription prices didn’t move in the switch (Pro stayed $10, Pro+ stayed $39, Business stayed $19, Enterprise stayed $39); what changed is how your included allowance drains. Heavy agentic users will notice the difference more than light chat users, since long autonomous sessions now cost proportionally more credits than a single quick completion request did under the old PRU system.
Practically, the free tier is fine for evaluation or light IDE use. Pro is the default starting point once you’re doing real agentic work, and its $15 credit pool is generous for completions-heavy workflows since those don’t consume credits at all — it’s chat and agent-mode sessions that draw it down. If you’re running long autonomous coding sessions daily, budget for Pro+ or Max rather than assuming Pro’s pool will stretch, the same advice that applies to Cursor’s and Claude Code’s usage-based tiers. For teams, Business is the reasonable default unless you specifically need GitHub.com chat integration or custom fine-tuned models, in which case Enterprise’s extra $20/user/mo buys real, distinct functionality rather than just a bigger number on the invoice.