GitHub Copilot, Microsoft-owned GitHub’s AI coding assistant, may quickly grow to be costlier for some customers.
On Friday, GitHub introduced “premium requests” for GitHub Copilot, a brand new system that imposes fee limits when customers swap to AI fashions apart from the bottom mannequin for duties comparable to “agentic” coding and multi-file edits. Whereas GitHub Copilot subscribers can nonetheless take limitless actions with the bottom mannequin (OpenAI’s GPT-4o), duties and actions with newer fashions, like Anthropic’s 3.7 Sonnet, will now be capped.
Prospects on the Copilot Professional ($20 monthly) tier will obtain 300 month-to-month premium requests starting on Might 5, GitHub mentioned in a weblog submit. As for Copilot Enterprise and Copilot Enterprise customers, they’ll obtain 300 and 1,000 month-to-month premium requests, respectively, beginning between Might 12 and Might 19.
Prospects on any of these plans should purchase further premium requests at $0.04 per request or improve to GitHub’s new Copilot Professional+ plan. Beginning at $39 monthly, Copilot Professional+ provides 1,500 premium requests and “entry to the perfect fashions,” GitHub says, together with OpenAI’s GPT-4.5.
The efficient value hike for Copilot’s extra succesful fashions, which comes a day after AI coding platform Devin elevated charges for some customers, is probably a mirrored image of the upper computing prices these fashions incur. Reasoning fashions like 3.7 Sonnet take extra time to fact-check their solutions, making them extra dependable — but additionally rising the computing wanted to run them.
But Copilot isn’t unprofitable. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella mentioned final August that Copilot accounted for over 40% of GitHub’s income progress in 2024 and is already a bigger enterprise than all of GitHub when the tech big acquired it roughly seven years in the past.
