Upcoming removal of Copilot premium request $0 budgets for enterprise and team accounts

[Akash1134]

Editor’s note (November 13, 2025): This discussion has been updated to reflect that removal of $0 Copilot premium request budgets will begin on December 2, 2025.

Editor’s note (September 25, 2025): This discussion has been updated to explain that dedicated premium request SKUs for each of your AI tools will be introduced beginning in November.

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Starting December 2, 2025, GitHub will remove all $0 Copilot premium request budgets for enterprise and team accounts created before August 22, 2025. As a result, premium request paid usage will be governed by your account’s premium request paid usage policy, not a static $0 budget.

Account owners and billing managers will receive an email when the budget is removed.

Who is affected?

All enterprise and org accounts with an account-level $0 Copilot premium request budget created before August 22, 2025 are affected.

Pro and Pro+ Copilot users are not affected and will continue to have $0 budgets by default.

What do you need to do?

• To continue blocking premium request charges after December 2, 2025: Go to your Copilot policy settings and ensure your premium request paid usage policy set to DISABLED.
• To maintain uninterrupted access: Ensure your premium request paid usage policy is set to ENABLED.
• To control overage spending: Increase your $0 budget to a value greater than $0 to cap premium request overages.
  You can make this change today, no need to wait until December.

Why are we making this change

• Enables granular controls without complexity: Starting in November 2025, each AI tool will have a dedicated SKU for tracking and managing premium request usage, beginning with coding agent and Spark. Keeping the $0 budget model would require you to manually create and manage separate $0 budgets for each new AI tool, creating unnecessary administrative burden as we expand our AI capabilities.
• Simplifies billing: Removing this budget option eliminates friction and manual intervention for admins, letting you scale AI usage with confidence.

What are premium requests?

Some Copilot features use more advanced processing power and count as premium requests. The number of premium requests a feature consumes can vary depending on the feature and the AI model used.

Learn more in our documentation on premium requests.

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[cahaseler]

Not a fan at all. This seems like an unnecessary change intended to cause accidental charges for people who have specifically opted out of excess charges for these tools.

[stevemcleod]

I just got an email about this. I have no idea what a “premium request” is. There’s zero context given in the email and here. No definition or explanation.

What is it a request of? Or for?

[EDIflyer]

It's for certain AI models in Copilot - generally the newer/more capable ones. I agree the email could definitely have done with more context. I also think those with zero budgets should have defaulted to disabled and made re-enabling charging an active choice.

[krisrm]

This is a ridiculous change... if you're going to implement this, at least default the premium request paid usage policy to "Disabled" for those of us with $0/month budgets. I shouldn't have to dig through settings menus to avoid overage bills.

[cfdude]

"What this means for your account:

Your current $0 budget prevents premium request overages. Once removed, your configured premium request paid usage policy will control paid usage beyond your included requests."

uhhh.. I thought having a $0 budget meant I didn't want to be charged any overages as I have $0 budget dollars allocated for this. I have no idea what a "premium request overage" is but this sounds like a 'you' problem, not a 'me' problem. If I have $0 budget then you should not be allowing me any kind overage, right? So, now you are inventing a process of obfuscation to get paid for a mistake you were already making instead of preventing the overage in the first place.

This is not enterprise or team org friendly at all. It's a money grab at its core.

[akaptur]

Heads up that this link 404's if you have an enterprise - looks like it's using the enterprise display name instead of the enterprise slug.

And setting this dropdown to "disabled" 500s (presumably because I should control this setting at the Enterprise level, not the Organization level).

[CatalanCabbage]

Sometimes I think to myself - is the lost goodwill worth whatever spare change you're going to make from users who fall for this?
TLDR: Some users disable extra budget -> you decide to rename the setting and enable it for them

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I have it set to $0

Do I see an alert here? Anywhere? Nope.

Oh here's an alert! Right in the billing tab, because yes, we visit that page every day (:

Nice new setting which is enabled by default:

Now, the email to me says "your current" - so you know I have this disabled, why not retain this in the new setting? :)

[ThomasCarca]

This reminds me of Cursor pricing changes in July. I am wondering what is the strategy with these changes considering the backlash we already witnessed.

[khadden-compline]

@Akash1134 when you say "your account's" in the following sentence, do you mean my individual account, or my organization account?:

August 22, 2025. As a result, premium request paid usage will be governed by your account’s premium request paid usage policy, not a static $0 budget.

How can I set budgets for individual users in my organization?

[oecpit]

I would like to ask whether the option of free 1000 premium requests will be removed from the enterprise plan, so instead of 1000 requests in the plan I will have 0? I have enterprise licences for organization and enterprise licences for copilot and free for user.

[kris-cloudaccess]

We have a Team organization account and Business Copilot, and I'm also wondering if those included premium requests will be scrapped?

[lvthillo]

Just to get some confirmation:

• Now we have an Enterprise Budget: Copilot Premium Request = $0
• The new setting "Premium request paid usage" which is "Enabled" by default

And this is the new way to achieve the same?

• Set the new setting "Premium request paid usage" to "Disabled".
• Removing the "Enterprise Budget: Copilot Premium Request" Budget

Correct?

[imorrish]

Unverified - ChatGPT explanation of Premium Requests...
⚙️ What Counts as a Premium Request?
Premium requests are consumed when using advanced features or models beyond the included GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o. Examples include:
Feature Premium Request Usage
Copilot Chat 1 per prompt × model multiplier
Copilot Coding Agent 1 per step (can be multiple per session)
Copilot Code Review 1 per comment posted
Copilot Extensions/Spaces 1 per prompt × model multiplier
Spark 4 per prompt
Example: Using Claude Opus 4 (10× multiplier) for one chat prompt = 10 premium requests.
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🧠 Model Multipliers (Paid Plans)
Model Multiplier
GPT-4.1 / GPT-4o 0 (free)
GPT-5 1
Claude Sonnet 3.7 1
Claude Opus 4 10
Gemini 2.0 Flash 0.25
Using GPT-4.1 or GPT-4o does not consume premium requests on paid plans.

🛡️ Budget Controls
You can set a monthly spending limit for premium requests.
Default budget is $0, so overages are blocked unless you raise it.
Usage can be monitored in your IDE or GitHub billing settings.
📊 Example Cost Calculation
If a Copilot Pro user uses:
500 premium requests in a month (300 included)
200 overage × $0.04 = $8 extra
Total monthly cost = $10 (base) + $8 (overage) = $18

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