GitHub Copilot premium requests

Usage of Copilot is measured through a combination of licenses and monthly usage tracking. For more information about how license costs in Copilot work, see GitHub Copilot licenses.

What are premium requests?

Some Copilot features use premium requests. Premium requests give you access to advanced models and additional AI features.

Examples include:

• Using Copilot Chat with premium models
• Large context windows or advanced reasoning models
• Features like Agente de codificación de Copilot

See Solicitudes en GitHub Copilot 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 Planes para GitHub Copilot.
• 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 Supervisión del uso y los derechos de GitHub Copilot.

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 Agente de codificación de Copilot

When you use Agente de codificación de Copilot, both GitHub Actions minutes and premium requests are consumed:

• GitHub Actions minutes come from your account’s monthly allowance of free minutes for GitHub-hosted runners. This allowance is shared with all GitHub Actions workflows. See Facturación de Acciones de GitHub.
• Premium requests come from your monthly allowance of premium Copilot requests. This allowance is shared with other features, such as Copilot Chat.

Each coding agent session consumes one premium request. A session begins when you ask Copilot to create a pull request or make one or more changes to an existing pull request.

If you run out of free minutes or premium requests, and you have not set up billing, a message is displayed explaining why Copilot cannot work on the task.

For more information about Agente de codificación de Copilot, see Acerca del agente de codificación de GitHub Copilot.

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 Configuración de presupuestos para controlar el gasto en productos medidos.

Organizations and enterprises

• Admins can control whether members are allowed to exceed their allowance using the Premium request paid usage policy. See Administración de la concesión de solicitudes premium para tu organización o empresa.
• Budgets can be set to either monitor or block overages.
• Enterprises can also upgrade frequent users to Copilot para empresas for higher included allowances.

Paying for premium requests

Additional usage is charged to the payment method configured for your GitHub account.

If you are billed through Azure, premium request usage appears on your Azure invoice. See Conexión de una suscripción de Azure.

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.

Muchas cuentas tienen un presupuesto predeterminado de 0 USD para solicitudes premium de Copilot. Las solicitudes premium que superan la asignación se rechazan a menos que se edite o elimine este presupuesto.

Monitoring usage

• Track your monthly usage in your IDE, in Copilot settings on GitHub, 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 Supervisión del uso y los derechos de GitHub Copilot.