GitHub Copilot began capping premium model requests on paid plans
GitHub started enforcing monthly premium-request allowances on Pro, Pro+, Business and Enterprise (Pro: 300/month), with extra requests billed at $0.04 each. Base models GPT-4.1/GPT-4o stayed unlimited.
What changed
- Limits cut, Jun 18, 2025
- Before: Premium model usage on paid plans was not metered
- After: Monthly premium-request allowance enforced; overage $0.04/request with a $0 default spending limit
- Existing customers: Applied to all paid subscribers
Cheaper alternatives to GitHub Copilot
At 1 developer, GitHub Copilot costs $10/mo. 2 AI coding tools cost less:
- Cursor: $8/mo (Plus ($8/mo, Grok models only)), covers 91% of GitHub Copilot; missing or partial: VS Code and JetBrains extensions (partly), Automated fixes (partly), Bring your own API key (partly), Open source or self-hosted
- OpenAI Codex: $8/mo (ChatGPT Go), covers 74% of GitHub Copilot; missing or partial: Inline code completion, VS Code and JetBrains extensions (partly), Multi-lab model choice, Codebase indexing (partly), AI-native code editor (partly)
GitHub Copilot alternatives: 3 AI coding tools compared, at every size.
Sources
Every price and change for GitHub Copilot: GitHub Copilot.