GitHub Copilot, Microsoft-owned GitHubβs AI coding assistant, might quickly turn out to be costlier for some customers.
On Friday, GitHub introduced βpremium requestsβ for GitHub Copilot, a brand new system that imposes price limits when customers change to AI fashions aside from the bottom mannequin for duties similar to βagenticβ coding and multi-file edits. Whereas GitHub Copilot subscribers can nonetheless take limitless actions with the bottom mannequin (OpenAIβs GPT-4o), duties and actions with newer fashions, like Anthropicβs 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 Could 5, GitHub stated in a weblog submit. As for Copilot Enterprise and Copilot Enterprise customers, theyβll obtain 300 and 1,000 month-to-month premium requests, respectively, beginning between Could 12 and Could 19.
Prospects on any of these plans can buy further premium requests at $0.04 per request or improve to GitHubβs new Copilot Professional+ plan. Beginning at $39 monthly, Copilot Professional+ presents 1,500 premium requests and βentry to the perfect fashions,β GitHub says, together with OpenAIβs GPT-4.5.
The efficient value hike for Copilotβs 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 β but in addition growing the computing wanted to run them.
But Copilot isnβt unprofitable. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated final August that Copilot accounted for over 40% of GitHubβs income development in 2024 and is already a bigger enterprise than all of GitHub when the tech large acquired it roughly seven years in the past.
