GitHub Copilot will switch to usage-based billing starting June 1st, with the monthly fee remaining the same but billed based on tokens used.

According to Beating Monitoring, GitHub announced that all Copilot plans will switch to pay-as-you-go billing starting June 1. The existing billing method for “premium request” will be replaced by GitHub AI Credits, calculated based on actual token consumption (including input, output, and cached tokens). The pricing rates match the publicly available API prices for each model.

This is GitHub’s final outcome from its consecutive tightening measures over the past ten days. On April 20, GitHub paused new registrations for the Personal Pro, Pro+, and Student plans, tightened usage limits, and removed Claude Opus from the Pro plan. On April 22, it also paused self-service registration for Copilot Business for Free and Team organizations. At the time, Product Vice President Joe Binder explained: agentic workflows allow models to automatically start sub-agents and run long tasks in parallel, and the single-session compute consumption is far beyond the plan design—“often the cost after just a few requests exceeds the price of the entire plan.” In this announcement, GitHub explicitly stated that after pay-as-you-go billing takes effect, it will relax the usage limits that were previously in place.

Subscription monthly prices remain unchanged: Pro is $10/month, Pro+ is $39/month, Business is $19 per user/month, and Enterprise is $39 per user/month. The monthly fee is the amount of AI Credits included each month. Any credits beyond that can be added by purchasing at the public rates. Code completion and Next Edit Suggestions do not consume credits and will remain as before. The previous fallback mechanism that automatically switched to a lower-cost model after premium requests were used up will be canceled; instead, credit balances and administrator budgets will be used for control.

Enterprise customers will have a 3-month buffer period: from June to August, Business users will receive $30 in credits per month (the official period amount is $19), and Enterprise users will receive $70 in credits per month (the official period amount is $39). At the same time, an organization-level pooled usage feature will be introduced. Unused credits can be shared within the organization, and administrators can set budget caps across three tiers—enterprise, cost center, and user. A billing estimate feature is expected to go live in early May, helping users understand projected expenses before the official switch.

Annual subscription users will keep the original billing method until their plan expires. After expiration, they will switch to Copilot Free. They can also switch to monthly billing in advance and receive credits converted from the remaining portion of their annual fee.