As of June 1, 2026, all GitHub Copilot plans run on usage-based billing. Premium request units are gone. What replaced them is a token-metered currency called GitHub AI Credits: one credit equals one cent, and every model interaction converts into credits based on the input, output, and cached tokens it consumes, charged at each model's published rate.
GitHub's framing is that Copilot outgrew its old pricing. A one-line completion and a multi-hour autonomous run used to cost the same, and once agentic use went mainstream, that flat rate stopped matching the compute behind it. Tying the price to tokens fixes the mismatch.
If your Copilot use is mostly autocomplete, this barely registers. If you drive Copilot as an agent from the terminal, it changes which moves cost money. Here's the practical shape of it.
Requests out, tokens in
Old model: each interaction cost one premium request, scaled by a per-model multiplier, drawn from a monthly request allowance.
