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

Starting November 18, 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.

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 November 18: 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 November.

Why are we making this change?

  • Enables granular controls without complexity: Starting in November, each AI tool will have their own dedicated SKUs 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.

Join the community discussion or contact your GitHub account team for more information.