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GitHub Copilot Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026

Free tier plus per-seat plans from $10 to $100/user/mo, now metered by a monthly AI-credit wallet.

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GitHub Copilot plans and pricing

High· Verified July 16, 2026

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Pick a plan, set your seat count and switch billing to see the running total. The full breakdown lives in the calculator below.

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$8.33Pro · effective monthly, billed annually

Free

Getting started with Copilot

Free

2,000 code completions per month

50 premium requests per month

Access to Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.1

Works in VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim

Get started

Pro

Everyday coding with agents

$8.33/user/mo

$10 /user/mosave 17%

Unlimited code completions

300 premium requests per month

Copilot coding agent access

All premium AI models in Chat

Best value for individual developers

Choose Pro

Plan

Business

Teams wanting pooled credits & control

$19/user/mo

Everything in Pro for each user

Organization-wide policy controls

Audit logs and IP indemnity

SSO (SAML) integration

File exclusion controls

Choose Business

Plan

Pro+

Everyday coding with agents

$32.5/user/mo

$39 /user/mosave 17%

1,500 premium requests per month

Access to ALL models including Claude Opus 4.8 and o3

Full Agent mode capabilities

Priority access to new features

Choose Pro+

Plan

Enterprise

Org-wide rollout, larger pooled credits

$39/user/mo

1,000 premium requests per user

Knowledge bases for codebase context

GitHub.com Chat integration

Custom model fine-tuning options

Choose Enterprise

Plan

Max

Sustained high-volume agent workflows

$100/mo

Everything in Pro+

Priority access to new models/features

2.9×+ included usage vs Pro+

$200/mo total credits ($100 base + $100 flex)

Choose Max

GitHub Copilot pricing: the quick answer

Quick answerHigh· Verified July 16, 2026

GitHub Copilot bills per user as of July 16, 2026, with a free tier and paid plans on a credit wallet. The free tier costs nothing with a monthly completion allowance; Pro is $10/user/mo, or $8.33 annual, Pro+ is $39/user/mo, and Max is $100/user/mo for the heaviest individual users. For teams, Business is $19/user/mo and Enterprise is $39/user/mo. Two figures the sticker hides: the Pro seat carries a monthly wallet of GitHub AI Credits, and Enterprise Copilot requires a GitHub Enterprise Cloud license on top of the $39 seat, its own per-user bill. Chat, agents, and code review all draw down credits.

FreeFree
Pro$10/user/mo
Business$19/user/mo
Pro+$39/user/mo
Enterprise$39/user/mo
Max$100/mo

Run your numbers in the cost calculator: pick a plan, set your team size, and compare monthly against annual billing.

Free tier

Yes

Billing model

Per Seat

Cheapest paid

$10/user/mo

Annual discount

Save ~17%

At $10/mo to start, GitHub Copilot sits 50% below the $20/mo median across 11 ai coding tools tools we track.

GitHub Copilot cost calculator

GitHub Copilot Hidden Costs & Pitfalls

What sits on top of the plan fee

The per-seat price is only the base of a credit wallet. Chat, agent mode, and code review all spend from it, and one tier hides a second product you have to buy alongside it.

AI Credits burn on top of the base seat

The $10 Pro seat comes with $15/mo of GitHub AI Credits, a $10 base plus $5 flex, and every Chat message, agent run, code review, and CLI call draws from that wallet at a rate that varies by model. Reach for a premium model and the flex portion drains fast; once it is gone you buy additional credits, which is the mechanism behind the surprise-bill complaints. Budget the seat as a floor and watch the credit meter if you use agents daily.

$15/mo credits on Pro ($10 base + $5 flex)

Enterprise needs GitHub Enterprise Cloud

The $39/user/mo Enterprise Copilot tier requires GitHub Enterprise Cloud at $21/user/mo underneath it, so the real per-seat cost is $60/mo, not $39. For a 50-developer org that is $3,000/mo, not $1,950, before any credit overage. If you are pricing an org-wide rollout, add the platform seat, because Copilot Enterprise does not stand alone.

+$21/user/mo for GitHub Enterprise Cloud

Buying more credits past the wallet

On Pro, Pro+, and Max you can purchase additional GitHub AI Credits when the included allotment runs out, but the Free tier cannot top up at all, it just stops. So a heavy month on Pro is the $10 seat plus whatever extra credits you buy, and the flex allotment itself may change over time. Treat any month with sustained agent use as variable, not flat.

additional credits purchasable on Pro/Pro+/Max

The renewal jump, credit expiry and every discount worth having are in the GitHub Copilot true cost guide, with an email generator for negotiating team and enterprise rates.

GitHub Copilot Cost Analysis

GitHub Copilot pricing, read against its live plans and category

Checked against current plan data

Positioning

$10/moentry price

50% below the category median

low $10median $20 · n=11high $100

GitHub Copilot undercuts a category median around $20/mo with its $10/mo Pro plan, which is an unusually cheap entry point for individual developers. The value proposition thins out at the top, though. Pro+ and Enterprise both jump to $39/mo, which sits above the market average for a feature gain many teams find modest. The Free tier gives real model access, but the paid tiers now have to justify themselves against a credit wallet that meters usage rather than a clean flat rate.

Cost drivers

1Chat, agents, and code review draw down a monthly AI-credit wallet, and heavy usage can spike the bill well past the flat sticker.
2Premium request limits force a tier upgrade once exhausted, so a busy developer on Pro can be pushed toward Pro+ at $39/mo.
3Enterprise Copilot requires a GitHub Enterprise Cloud license on top of the $39 seat, so the true per-developer cost is higher than the plan price.

Watch-outs

Users report a quiet shift from predictable flat-rate subscriptions to a credit-based system, and bills that climbed sharply for heavy usage.

Strengths

The Pro plan at $10/user/mo is a genuinely cheap way into fast, editor-native completions across more than fifty languages, and it now spans multiple models.

Affordable $10/mo entry, one of the lowest in the category
Highly rated at 4.5/5 across review platforms
Broad coverage: completions and chat inside VS Code, JetBrains, and Visual Studio

What users say

“Github copilot is best value for money! Only chatgpt is beating it”

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Editor’s take

Individual developers should stay on the $10/mo Pro plan for completions and light chat, while organizations that need policy and audit controls want the $19/mo Business plan. If the credit wallet is turning your bill unpredictable, Cursor at $20/mo offers a more stable, developer-friendly model.

Oleh KemFounder & Lead Analyst

ComparEdge EditorialUpdated: July 16, 2026

GitHub Copilot price history

Price & Data Intelligence SyncLast verified: July 16, 2026 · CE-AICODE-2026W29-8A4132 · ✓ Pricing updated

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G2	G2 verified user reviews · 4.5/5 · 274 reviews	—
Capterra	Capterra verified user reviews · 4.6/5	—
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PeerSpot	PeerSpot enterprise peer reviews	—

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