docs/content/billing/concepts/product-billing/github-copilot-premium-requests.md

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GitHub Copilot premium requests	Learn how premium requests in {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} work, including usage measurement and managing your budget.	feature copilot	Billing Copilot	concepts

Usage of {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} is measured through a combination of licenses and monthly usage tracking. For more information about how license costs in {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} work, see AUTOTITLE.

What are premium requests?

Some {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} features use premium requests. Premium requests give you access to advanced models and additional AI features.

Examples include:

• Using {% data variables.copilot.copilot_chat_short %} with premium models
• Large context windows or advanced reasoning models
• Features like {% data variables.copilot.copilot_coding_agent %}

See AUTOTITLE for details on which models and features consume premium requests.

How usage of premium requests is measured

Usage of premium requests is tracked monthly and is based on the following factors.

Monthly allowance

• Each plan includes a fixed number of premium requests per user per month.
• Allowances vary by plan. See AUTOTITLE.
• Allowances reset on the 1st of each month at 00:00:00 UTC.

Multiple licenses

If you receive licenses from multiple enterprises, you must choose which entity is billed for your premium requests. See AUTOTITLE.

Usage by premium models

• Each interaction that uses a premium model consumes from your allowance.
• Some models use multipliers, meaning a single interaction may count as multiple premium requests.
• For example, advanced reasoning models may consume 5× or 20× the standard rate.
• If you exceed your allowance and overages are enabled, extra usage is billed at the standard rate.

Usage by {% data variables.copilot.copilot_coding_agent %}

When you use {% data variables.copilot.copilot_coding_agent %}, including any {% data variables.copilot.copilot_custom_agents %}, both {% data variables.product.prodname_actions %} minutes and premium requests are consumed:

• {% data variables.product.prodname_actions %} minutes come from your account’s monthly allowance of free minutes for {% data variables.product.github %}-hosted runners. This allowance is shared with all {% data variables.product.prodname_actions %} workflows. See AUTOTITLE.
• Premium requests come from your monthly allowance of premium {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} requests. This allowance is shared with other features, such as {% data variables.copilot.copilot_chat_short %}.

Each coding agent session consumes one premium request. A session begins when you:

• Ask {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} to create or edit a pull request
• Assign {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} to an issue

If you run out of free minutes or premium requests, and you have not set up billing, a message is displayed explaining why {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} cannot work on the task.

For more information about {% data variables.copilot.copilot_coding_agent %} and {% data variables.copilot.copilot_custom_agents %}, see AUTOTITLE and AUTOTITLE.

Using more than your included premium requests

If you exceed your plan's included premium requests, there are options available depending on your account type.

Personal accounts

If you exceed your allowance, set a budget for additional premium requests or upgrade to a higher plan. See AUTOTITLE.

Organizations and enterprises

• Admins can control whether members are allowed to exceed their allowance using the Premium request paid usage policy. See AUTOTITLE.
• Budgets can be set to either monitor or block overages.
• Enterprises can also upgrade frequent users to {% data variables.copilot.copilot_enterprise_short %} for higher included allowances.

Paying for premium requests

Additional usage is charged to the payment method configured for your {% data variables.product.github %} account.

If you are billed through Azure, premium request usage appears on your Azure invoice. See AUTOTITLE.

Managing your budget for premium requests

To help manage your budget for premium requests, consider the following strategies.

Personal accounts

You can set a budget in your personal billing settings to receive alerts when you reach 75%, 90%, or 100% of your budget.

Organizations and enterprises

You can set budgets at the organization, enterprise, or cost center level. If you enable stop usage when budget is reached, extra premium requests are blocked when the budget runs out.

{% data reusables.copilot.zero-budget-changes-link %}

Monitoring usage

• Track your monthly usage in your IDE, in {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} settings on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}, or by downloading a usage report.
• Usage reports show all premium requests, both within and beyond the allowance, and can be used to identify high-usage users.

For more information about monitoring your usage, see AUTOTITLE.