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 对话助手 with premium models
- Large context windows or advanced reasoning models
- Features like Copilot 编码智能体
See GitHub Copilot 中的请求 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 适用于 GitHub Copilot 的计划.
- 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 监视 GitHub Copilot 使用情况和授权.
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 编码智能体
When you use Copilot 编码智能体, 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 计费.
- Premium requests come from your monthly allowance of premium Copilot requests. This allowance is shared with other features, such as Copilot 对话助手.
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 编码智能体, see 关于 GitHub Copilot 编码智能体.
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 设置预算以控制按流量计费的产品的支出.
Organizations and enterprises
- Admins can control whether members are allowed to exceed their allowance using the Premium request paid usage policy. See 管理组织或企业的高级请求限额.
- 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 连接 Azure 订阅.
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.
许多帐户的 Copilot 高级请求的默认预算为 0 美元。 除非编辑或删除此预算，否则会拒绝超出限额的高级请求。
注意
2025 年 8 月 22 日之后启动的具有 Copilot Business 或 Copilot Enterprise 计划的帐户没有默认的 0 美元预算，因此高级请求默认不间断************。 可以通过创建预算或禁用“高级请求付费使用”策略来限制高级请求的支出。 请参阅 管理组织或企业的高级请求限额。
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 监视 GitHub Copilot 使用情况和授权.