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 Copilot コーディング エージェント

See GitHub Copilot における要求 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 GitHub Copilot のプラン.
• 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 GitHub Copilot の使用状況とエンタイトルメントの監視.

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 Copilot コーディング エージェント

When you use Copilot コーディング エージェント, 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 GitHub Actions の課金.
• 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 Copilot コーディング エージェント, see GitHub Copilot コーディング エージェントについて.

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 従量制課金製品の支出を管理するための予算の設定.

Organizations and enterprises

• Admins can control whether members are allowed to exceed their allowance using the Premium request paid usage policy. See Organization または Enterprise の Premium リクエスト許容量の管理.
• Budgets can be set to either monitor or block overages.
• Enterprises can also upgrade frequent users to Copilot Enterprise 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 Azure サブスクリプションを接続する.

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.

多くのアカウントでは、Copilot Premium リクエストの予算が既定で $0 に設定されています。 この予算が編集または削除されない限り、使用枠を超える Premium リクエストは拒否されます。

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 GitHub Copilot の使用状況とエンタイトルメントの監視.