Usage of Copilot is measured through a combination of licenses and monthly usage tracking. For more information about how license costs in Copilot work, see GitHub Copilot licenses.
What are premium requests?
Some Copilot features use premium requests. Premium requests give you access to advanced models and additional AI features.
Examples include:
- Using Copilot Chat with premium models
- Large context windows or advanced reasoning models
- Features like Copilot 코딩 에이전트
See GitHub Copilot의 요청 for details on which models and features consume premium requests.
How usage of premium requests is measured
Usage of premium requests is tracked monthly and is based on the following factors.
Monthly allowance
- Each plan includes a fixed number of premium requests per user per month.
- Allowances vary by plan. See GitHub Copilot 플랜.
- Allowances reset on the 1st of each month at 00:00:00 UTC.
Multiple licenses
If you receive licenses from multiple enterprises, you must choose which entity is billed for your premium requests. See GitHub Copilot 사용량 및 권한 모니터링.
Usage by premium models
- Each interaction that uses a premium model consumes from your allowance.
- Some models use multipliers, meaning a single interaction may count as multiple premium requests.
- For example, advanced reasoning models may consume 5× or 20× the standard rate.
- If you exceed your allowance and overages are enabled, extra usage is billed at the standard rate.
Usage by Copilot 코딩 에이전트
When you use Copilot 코딩 에이전트, both GitHub Actions minutes and premium requests are consumed:
- GitHub Actions minutes come from your account’s monthly allowance of free minutes for GitHub-hosted runners. This allowance is shared with all GitHub Actions workflows. See GitHub Actions 청구.
- Premium requests come from your monthly allowance of premium Copilot requests. This allowance is shared with other features, such as Copilot Chat.
Each coding agent session consumes one premium request. A session begins when you ask Copilot to create a pull request or make one or more changes to an existing pull request.
If you run out of free minutes or premium requests, and you have not set up billing, a message is displayed explaining why Copilot cannot work on the task.
For more information about Copilot 코딩 에이전트, see GitHub Copilot 코딩 에이전트 정보.
Using more than your included premium requests
If you exceed your plan's included premium requests, there are options available depending on your account type.
Personal accounts
If you exceed your allowance, set a budget for additional premium requests or upgrade to a higher plan. See 예산을 설정하여 요금제 제품에 대한 지출 제어.
Organizations and enterprises
- Admins can control whether members are allowed to exceed their allowance using the Premium request paid usage policy. See 조직 또는 엔터프라이즈의 프리미엄 요청 할당량 관리.
- Budgets can be set to either monitor or block overages.
- Enterprises can also upgrade frequent users to Copilot Enterprise for higher included allowances.
Paying for premium requests
Additional usage is charged to the payment method configured for your GitHub account.
If you are billed through Azure, premium request usage appears on your Azure invoice. See Azure 구독에 연결.
Managing your budget for premium requests
To help manage your budget for premium requests, consider the following strategies.
Personal accounts
You can set a budget in your personal billing settings to receive alerts when you reach 75%, 90%, or 100% of your budget.
Organizations and enterprises
You can set budgets at the organization, enterprise, or cost center level. If you enable stop usage when budget is reached, extra premium requests are blocked when the budget runs out.
많은 계정에는 Copilot 프리미엄 요청에 대해 기본 $0 예산이 설정되어 있습니다. 이 예산이 수정되거나 삭제되지 않는 한, 할당량을 초과한 프리미엄 요청은 거부됩니다.
참고 항목
2025년 8월 22일 이후에 시작된 Copilot Business 또는 Copilot Enterprise 플랜 계정에는 기본 $0 예산이 없으며, 기본적으로 프리미엄 요청이 중단되지 않습니다. 프리미엄 요청 지출을 제한하려면 예산을 생성하거나 "프리미엄 요청 유료 사용량" 정책을 비활성화하면 됩니다. 조직 또는 엔터프라이즈의 프리미엄 요청 할당량 관리을(를) 참조하세요.
Monitoring usage
- Track your monthly usage in your IDE, in Copilot settings on GitHub, or by downloading a usage report.
- Usage reports show all premium requests, both within and beyond the allowance, and can be used to identify high-usage users.
For more information about monitoring your usage, see GitHub Copilot 사용량 및 권한 모니터링.