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GitHub is transitioning Copilot to a usage-based billing model starting June 1, 2026. This change will affect how users are charged for interactions based on token consumption. Pricing will vary depending on the model used and the number of tokens consumed during interactions.
- ▪Starting June 1, 2026, GitHub will implement usage-based billing for Copilot instead of request-based billing.
- ▪The cost of interactions will depend on the model used and the number of tokens consumed, with 1 AI credit equaling $0.01 USD.
- ▪Individual and business plans will have different allowances for GitHub AI Credits, and additional usage will incur extra charges.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub Docs |
| Canonical URL | https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-billing/models-and-pricing |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:13:23 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-04-28T09:25:06.520Z |
| Last seen | 2026-04-28T09:25:06.520Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | J-wxFRQ9TDKn |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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GitHub Copilot/Reference/Copilot billing/Models and pricingModels and pricing for GitHub CopilotSee per-token pricing for the models available in GitHub Copilot and reference rates for additional usage across plans.Copy as MarkdownIn this articleHow model pricing worksPricing tablesCode completionsPricing and usage cost considerations for Copilot code reviewModel multipliers for annual Copilot Pro and Copilot Pro+ subscribersFootnotesImportant Starting June 1, 2026, GitHub is moving Copilot from request-based billing to usage-based billing. See Usage-based billing for organizations and enterprises and Usage-based billing for individuals. The pricing tables below reflect the new usage-based billing rates that will take effect on June 1, 2026.
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