Feature Request: Separate Billing/Usage Scope for Personal vs Business Copilot on Single Account

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I am currently in a situation where I have both a personal GitHub Copilot Pro subscription (for my own projects/agent usage) and a Copilot Business seat provided by my employer.

Currently, there seems to be no mechanism to separate the usage or billing between these two contexts on a single GitHub identity.

When a Business seat is assigned, it CANCELS the personal subscription. I cannot utilize a personal allowance of "Premium Requests" when working on personal projects. All usage is attributed to the business organization (costing them money/quota) or blocked if the organization has stricter policies than my personal plan would have.

Also, when creating Pull Requests with automatic Copilot Code Reviews, the cost/usage seems to be attributed ambiguously. If a PR is created in an Organization's repository, the Code Review usage should strictly be billed to that Organization, not against a user's personal limits.

To resolve this, users are being told to create secondary GitHub accounts solely for work and link it to VS Code Copilot extension. This contradicts GitHub's long-standing recommendation to maintain a single identity (One account for work and personal) and creates significant friction.

I am not alone in facing this; the community has been discussing the inability to segment usage effectively. See this Reddit thread.

Proposed Solution

Please introduce a "Billing Scope" or "Usage Context" selector within the IDE (VS Code/JetBrains) or the GitHub Copilot extension or even better: use Context-Aware Billing: automatically respect the repository context (e.g., if I am in a repo owned by MyCompany, bill to Business; if in MyPersonalRepo, bill to Personal).

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Questions

1. Is there currently a workaround that does NOT involve creating a secondary GitHub account?
2. Is there an official tracking issue or roadmap item for separating Personal vs. Business usage on a single identity?

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