Quota mechanics by access plan
Direct answer
Current disclosed limit structure
- Last verified
- Sep 7, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC
How usage is measured and reset
Measurement
FactChat, CLI, cloud agent, Spaces, Spark, and third-party coding agents consume AI Credits at model token rates. Paid code completions and next edit suggestions are unlimited and consume no AI Credits. Copilot Free includes 2,000 completions per month; its AI Credit quantity is Unknown.Copilot individual usage billing · Plans for GitHub Copilot Reset cadence
What happens when exhausted
Copilot Free:
Copilot Pro:
Copilot Pro+:
Copilot Max:
Copilot Business:
Copilot Enterprise:
What is not disclosed
Unknown — Free AI Credit quantity, exact credits per chat or agent session, and remaining annual-plan premium-request balances for customers who stayed on legacy billing.
Unknown — Free AI Credit quantity, exact credits per chat or agent session, and remaining annual-plan premium-request balances for customers who stayed on legacy billing.
Unknown — Free AI Credit quantity, exact credits per chat or agent session, and remaining annual-plan premium-request balances for customers who stayed on legacy billing.
Unknown — Free AI Credit quantity, exact credits per chat or agent session, and remaining annual-plan premium-request balances for customers who stayed on legacy billing.
Unknown — Free AI Credit quantity, exact credits per chat or agent session, and remaining annual-plan premium-request balances for customers who stayed on legacy billing.
Unknown — Free AI Credit quantity, exact credits per chat or agent session, and remaining annual-plan premium-request balances for customers who stayed on legacy billing.
Metering map
What GitHub Copilot actually meters
Each plan below is a pool graph: consumers drain a pool, a reset clock refills it, and exhaustion says what happens at empty. Numeric capacity is shown only when an official source publishes it for that exact pool.
Copilot Free
FactFree code completions · other
Published capacity: 2000.
- Consumer · feature Code completions — Fact Free code completions are a separate monthly count, not AI Credits.
- Consumer · feature Next edit suggestions — Fact Next edit suggestions are not billed as AI Credits in the reviewed individual billing article; Free completion quantity is the published numeric cap.
- Reset · monthly Unknown The 2,000 Free code completions are a monthly allowance. The precise completion reset boundary beyond the monthly window is Unknown in this source.
- At limit · wait for reset, unknown Unknown Copilot Free includes 2,000 completions per month. Continuation after that cap is not spelled out as a paid overage path in the reviewed table.
Source: Copilot individual usage billing · verified Sep 7, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC
UnknownFree AI Credits · credits
Copilot Free includes an AI Credit allowance. The numeric quantity is not published in the reviewed individual billing table.
- Consumer · feature Copilot Chat — Fact Copilot Chat consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · surface Copilot CLI — Fact Copilot CLI consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · agent mode Copilot cloud agent — Fact Copilot cloud agent consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · feature Copilot Spaces — Fact Copilot Spaces consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · feature Spark — Fact Spark consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · agent mode Third-party coding agents — Fact Third-party coding agents consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Reset · monthly Fact AI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on day 1 of each calendar month. Unused credits do not roll over. Visible in GitHub usage dashboard.
- At limit · unknown Unknown The Free AI Credit quantity is Unknown, so exhaustion of that allowance cannot be described as a number.
Source: Copilot individual usage billing · verified Sep 7, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC
Copilot Pro
FactPro AI Credits · credits
Published capacity: 1500.
- Consumer · feature Copilot Chat — Fact Copilot Chat consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · surface Copilot CLI — Fact Copilot CLI consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · agent mode Copilot cloud agent — Fact Copilot cloud agent consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · feature Copilot Spaces — Fact Copilot Spaces consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · feature Spark — Fact Spark consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · agent mode Third-party coding agents — Fact Third-party coding agents consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Reset · monthly Fact AI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on day 1 of each calendar month. Unused credits do not roll over. Visible in GitHub usage dashboard.
- At limit · overage, upgrade, wait for reset Fact Upgrade, set a paid additional-usage budget, or wait for reset. Additional usage may be capped.
Source: Copilot individual usage billing · verified Sep 7, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC
FactPro unlimited completions · other
- Consumer · feature Code completions — Fact Paid code completions do not consume AI Credits and remain unlimited.
- Consumer · feature Next edit suggestions — Fact Next edit suggestions do not consume AI Credits and remain unlimited on paid plans.
Source: Copilot individual usage billing · verified Sep 7, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC
Copilot Pro+
FactPro+ AI Credits · credits
Published capacity: 7000.
- Consumer · feature Copilot Chat — Fact Copilot Chat consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · surface Copilot CLI — Fact Copilot CLI consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · agent mode Copilot cloud agent — Fact Copilot cloud agent consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · feature Copilot Spaces — Fact Copilot Spaces consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · feature Spark — Fact Spark consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · agent mode Third-party coding agents — Fact Third-party coding agents consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Reset · monthly Fact AI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on day 1 of each calendar month. Unused credits do not roll over. Visible in GitHub usage dashboard.
- At limit · overage, upgrade, wait for reset Fact Upgrade, set a paid additional-usage budget, or wait for reset. Additional usage may be capped.
Source: Copilot individual usage billing · verified Sep 7, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC
FactPro+ unlimited completions · other
- Consumer · feature Code completions — Fact Paid code completions do not consume AI Credits and remain unlimited.
- Consumer · feature Next edit suggestions — Fact Next edit suggestions do not consume AI Credits and remain unlimited on paid plans.
Source: Copilot individual usage billing · verified Sep 7, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC
Copilot Max
FactMax AI Credits · credits
Published capacity: 20000.
- Consumer · feature Copilot Chat — Fact Copilot Chat consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · surface Copilot CLI — Fact Copilot CLI consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · agent mode Copilot cloud agent — Fact Copilot cloud agent consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · feature Copilot Spaces — Fact Copilot Spaces consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · feature Spark — Fact Spark consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · agent mode Third-party coding agents — Fact Third-party coding agents consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Reset · monthly Fact AI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on day 1 of each calendar month. Unused credits do not roll over. Visible in GitHub usage dashboard.
- At limit · overage, upgrade, wait for reset Fact Upgrade, set a paid additional-usage budget, or wait for reset. Additional usage may be capped.
Source: Copilot individual usage billing · verified Sep 7, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC
FactMax unlimited completions · other
- Consumer · feature Code completions — Fact Paid code completions do not consume AI Credits and remain unlimited.
- Consumer · feature Next edit suggestions — Fact Next edit suggestions do not consume AI Credits and remain unlimited on paid plans.
Source: Copilot individual usage billing · verified Sep 7, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC
Copilot Business
FactBusiness pooled AI Credits · shared · credits
Published capacity: 1900.
- Consumer · feature Copilot Chat — Fact Copilot Chat consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · surface Copilot CLI — Fact Copilot CLI consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · agent mode Copilot cloud agent — Fact Copilot cloud agent consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · feature Copilot Spaces — Fact Copilot Spaces consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · feature Spark — Fact Spark consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · agent mode Third-party coding agents — Fact Third-party coding agents consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Reset · monthly Fact AI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on day 1 of each calendar month. Unused credits do not roll over. Visible in GitHub usage dashboard.
- At limit · overage, blocked, wait for reset Fact When the pooled credits are exhausted, additional usage continues unless an administrator disables paid AI-credit usage or a budget blocks it.
Source: Copilot organization and enterprise usage billing · verified Sep 7, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC
FactBusiness unlimited completions · other
- Consumer · feature Code completions — Fact Paid code completions do not consume AI Credits and remain unlimited.
- Consumer · feature Next edit suggestions — Fact Next edit suggestions do not consume AI Credits and remain unlimited on paid plans.
Source: Copilot organization and enterprise usage billing · verified Sep 7, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC
Copilot Enterprise
FactEnterprise pooled AI Credits · shared · credits
Published capacity: 3900.
- Consumer · feature Copilot Chat — Fact Copilot Chat consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · surface Copilot CLI — Fact Copilot CLI consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · agent mode Copilot cloud agent — Fact Copilot cloud agent consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · feature Copilot Spaces — Fact Copilot Spaces consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · feature Spark — Fact Spark consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Consumer · agent mode Third-party coding agents — Fact Third-party coding agents consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Reset · monthly Fact AI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on day 1 of each calendar month. Unused credits do not roll over. Visible in GitHub usage dashboard.
- At limit · overage, blocked, wait for reset Fact When the pooled credits are exhausted, additional usage continues unless an administrator disables paid AI-credit usage or a budget blocks it.
Source: Copilot organization and enterprise usage billing · verified Sep 7, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC
FactEnterprise unlimited completions · other
- Consumer · feature Code completions — Fact Paid code completions do not consume AI Credits and remain unlimited.
- Consumer · feature Next edit suggestions — Fact Next edit suggestions do not consume AI Credits and remain unlimited on paid plans.
Source: Copilot organization and enterprise usage billing · verified Sep 7, 2026, 6:30 PM UTC
Published numeric allowances
Copilot Free
- Monthly
Fact2,000 code completions / month. Monthly allowance; precise completion reset boundary is Unknown in this source.. Separate from metered AI Credits.Copilot individual usage billing
Copilot Pro
- Monthly
Fact1,500 AI Credits / calendar month. AI Credits reset on day 1 of each calendar month at 00:00:00 UTC; no rollover.. Includes a variable flex allotment; not a fixed message count.Copilot individual usage billing
Copilot Pro+
- Monthly
Fact7,000 AI Credits / calendar month. AI Credits reset on day 1 of each calendar month at 00:00:00 UTC; no rollover.. Includes a variable flex allotment; not a fixed message count.Copilot individual usage billing
Copilot Max
- Monthly
Fact20,000 AI Credits / calendar month. AI Credits reset on day 1 of each calendar month at 00:00:00 UTC; no rollover.. Includes a variable flex allotment; not a fixed message count.Copilot individual usage billing
Copilot Business
- Monthly
Fact1,900 AI Credits / calendar month. Pooled AI Credits reset on day 1 of each calendar month at 00:00:00 UTC; no rollover.. Credits are pooled at the billing entity, not copied into Copilot Pro. A June 1–September 1, 2026 promotional 3,000-credit amount for existing Business customers has ended.Copilot organization and enterprise usage billing · Plans for GitHub Copilot
Copilot Enterprise
Capacity qualifications
An absent numeric field means no verified value is stored. Use the cited capacity rules; request, credit, token and usage-value units are not interchangeable.
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Do Copilot Chat and Copilot CLI share usage?
DocumentedShared pools: Business pooled AI Credits; Enterprise pooled AI Credits. Only documented consumers on those pools draw the same allowance. A surface not listed as a consumer is not assumed to share it.
Mechanics
- Business pooled AI Credits consumers: Copilot Chat, Copilot CLI, Copilot cloud agent, Copilot Spaces, Spark, Third-party coding agents.
- Enterprise pooled AI Credits consumers: Copilot Chat, Copilot CLI, Copilot cloud agent, Copilot Spaces, Spark, Third-party coding agents.
- IDE chat and agent
- Code completions and next edit suggestions
Unknown / conflict
- Unknown The verified sources do not establish that IDE chat and agent shares this pool.
- Unknown The verified sources do not establish that Code completions and next edit suggestions shares this pool.
Source: Copilot organization and enterprise usage billing · Plans for GitHub Copilot
What counts as GitHub Copilot credits?
PartialFree AI Credits is drained by Copilot Chat, Copilot CLI, Copilot cloud agent, Copilot Spaces, Spark, Third-party coding agents. Pro AI Credits is drained by Copilot Chat, Copilot CLI, Copilot cloud agent, Copilot Spaces, Spark, Third-party coding agents. Pro+ AI Credits is drained by Copilot Chat, Copilot CLI, Copilot cloud agent, Copilot Spaces, Spark, Third-party coding agents. Max AI Credits is drained by Copilot Chat, Copilot CLI, Copilot cloud agent, Copilot Spaces, Spark, Third-party coding agents. Business pooled AI Credits is drained by Copilot Chat, Copilot CLI, Copilot cloud agent, Copilot Spaces, Spark, Third-party coding agents. Enterprise pooled AI Credits is drained by Copilot Chat, Copilot CLI, Copilot cloud agent, Copilot Spaces, Spark, Third-party coding agents.
Mechanics
- Copilot Free · Free AI Credits: Copilot Chat consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Copilot Free · Free AI Credits: Copilot CLI consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Copilot Free · Free AI Credits: Copilot cloud agent consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
- Copilot Free · Free AI Credits: Copilot Spaces consumes AI Credits at model token rates. Exact credits per session are Unknown.
Unknown / conflict
- Unknown Copilot Free includes an AI Credit allowance. The numeric quantity is not published in the reviewed individual billing table.
- Unknown Pro unlimited completions numeric size is Unknown.
- Unknown Pro+ unlimited completions numeric size is Unknown.
Source: Copilot individual usage billing · Plans for GitHub Copilot · Copilot organization and enterprise usage billing
Do completions consume AI Credits?
DocumentedThese actions are encoded as separate from the metered pool: Code completions, Next edit suggestions.
Mechanics
- Free code completions are a separate monthly count, not AI Credits.
- Next edit suggestions are not billed as AI Credits in the reviewed individual billing article; Free completion quantity is the published numeric cap.
- Paid code completions do not consume AI Credits and remain unlimited.
- Next edit suggestions do not consume AI Credits and remain unlimited on paid plans.
Source: Copilot individual usage billing · Plans for GitHub Copilot · Copilot organization and enterprise usage billing
When does it reset, and where can I see that?
PartialAI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on day 1 of each calendar month. Unused credits do not roll over. The 2,000 Free code completions are a monthly allowance. The precise completion reset boundary beyond the monthly window is Unknown in this source. AI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on day 1 of each calendar month. Unused credits do not roll over. AI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on day 1 of each calendar month. Unused credits do not roll over. AI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on day 1 of each calendar month. Unused credits do not roll over. AI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on day 1 of each calendar month. Unused credits do not roll over. AI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on day 1 of each calendar month. Unused credits do not roll over.
Mechanics
- monthly: AI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on day 1 of each calendar month. Unused credits do not roll over. Visible in GitHub usage dashboard.
- monthly: The 2,000 Free code completions are a monthly allowance. The precise completion reset boundary beyond the monthly window is Unknown in this source.
- monthly: AI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on day 1 of each calendar month. Unused credits do not roll over. Visible in GitHub usage dashboard.
- monthly: AI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on day 1 of each calendar month. Unused credits do not roll over. Visible in GitHub usage dashboard.
Next action: Look in GitHub usage dashboard.
Unknown / conflict
- Unknown Copilot Free includes an AI Credit allowance. The numeric quantity is not published in the reviewed individual billing table.
Source: Copilot individual usage billing · Plans for GitHub Copilot · Copilot organization and enterprise usage billing
What happens when included usage is exhausted?
DocumentedCopilot Free includes 2,000 completions per month. Continuation after that cap is not spelled out as a paid overage path in the reviewed table. The Free AI Credit quantity is Unknown, so exhaustion of that allowance cannot be described as a number. Upgrade, set a paid additional-usage budget, or wait for reset. Additional usage may be capped. Upgrade, set a paid additional-usage budget, or wait for reset. Additional usage may be capped. Upgrade, set a paid additional-usage budget, or wait for reset. Additional usage may be capped. When the pooled credits are exhausted, additional usage continues unless an administrator disables paid AI-credit usage or a budget blocks it. When the pooled credits are exhausted, additional usage continues unless an administrator disables paid AI-credit usage or a budget blocks it.
Mechanics
- wait for reset, unknown: Copilot Free includes 2,000 completions per month. Continuation after that cap is not spelled out as a paid overage path in the reviewed table.
- unknown: The Free AI Credit quantity is Unknown, so exhaustion of that allowance cannot be described as a number.
- overage, upgrade, wait for reset: Upgrade, set a paid additional-usage budget, or wait for reset. Additional usage may be capped.
- overage, upgrade, wait for reset: Upgrade, set a paid additional-usage budget, or wait for reset. Additional usage may be capped.
Unknown / conflict
- Unknown Copilot Free includes an AI Credit allowance. The numeric quantity is not published in the reviewed individual billing table.
- Unknown Pro unlimited completions numeric capacity is Unknown.
- Unknown Pro+ unlimited completions numeric capacity is Unknown.
Source: Copilot individual usage billing · Plans for GitHub Copilot · Copilot organization and enterprise usage billing
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