GitHub Copilot: Monthly Request Quotas Now Active

On GitHub Copilot, unlimited premium requests are a thing of the past.

As of June 18, 2025, a monthly cap applies. The counter resets on the 1st of every month. It depends on the plans :

• Copilot Free: 50 premium requests
• Copilot Pro: 300
• Copilot Pro+: 1500
• Copilot Business: 300 per user
• Copilot Enterprise: 1000 per user

Beyond the plans, a usage-based model

These requests are labeled premium because they “utilize more advanced processing power,” to borrow GitHub’s wording. By default, they are blocked once the quota is reached. It is however possible to set an additional budget, knowing that the request is billed at $0.04. You must add the multiplier associated with each model. On paid plans, this yields:

• x 0,25 for Gemini 2.0 Flash
• x 0,33 for o3-mini and o4-mini
• x 1 for Claude Sonnet 3.5, 3.7, 4, as well as Gemini Pro 2.5 and up
• x 1,25 for Claude Sonnet 3.7 with reasoning mode
• x 10 for Claude Opus 4
• x 50 for GPT-4.5

On these same paid plans, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4o do not deduct premium requests for code autocompletion nor for agent mode within chat*. “This is subject to change“, we are told.

On GitHub Copilot Free, all available models (GPT-4.1, GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet 3.5, Gemini 2.0 Flash and o3-mini) share the same multiplier: x 1. You cannot set an additional budget.

The premium-request quotas supplement the rate limits that GitHub has long applied.

* This agent mode consumes one request per user prompt. Do not confuse it with the Copilot coding agent. The latter is currently in preview on the Pro+ and Enterprise plans. Capable of running in the background, it can count multiple requests in response to a prompt.