GitHub Copilot's included AI credits just dropped up to 44% — what 'included' actually costs now
GitHub cut the AI credits included in Copilot Business and Enterprise plans by 36.7% and 44.3% respectively on 1 September 2026, as the promotional top-up from the June move to usage-based billing expired — the subscription price stayed the same, the usage it buys did not.
10 September 2026
On 1 September 2026, GitHub’s promotional credit boost for Copilot Business and Enterprise customers expired. Business seats dropped from 3,000 to 1,900 included AI credits a month — a 36.7% cut. Enterprise seats dropped from 7,000 to 3,900 — a 44.3% cut. At $0.01 per credit, that’s included usage worth $30 falling to $19 on Business, and $70 falling to $39 on Enterprise. The seat price itself didn’t move.
This is the second half of a change GitHub set in motion back in June, when Copilot moved from unlimited-feeling “Premium Request” allowances to metered AI credits. The higher credit amounts through the summer were a temporary cushion for existing customers while they adjusted; September 1 was always when the real, steady-state numbers kicked in. Go over the new allowance and it’s $0.01 per additional credit, with no rollover for what you don’t use.
Why this is worth tracking if you’re not the one paying the GitHub bill
Teams evaluating AI coding tools right now are comparing moving targets, not fixed price lists. Copilot’s real included usage just fell by more than a third to nearly half, depending on plan. Claude Code’s own weekly limits are about to drop 17% for current users as a temporary boost expires on 13 September (see our related signal). Every vendor in this space is still finding the actual cost of running agentic coding assistance at scale, and the adjustments are landing as quiet reductions to what’s “included” rather than headline price rises — which makes tool costs harder to compare from the outside than they look.
So what
If a development team or agency is quoting AI-assisted delivery timelines or costs, it’s worth asking which tools they’re running and under what plan — because the answer from three months ago may no longer be true, and the gap between “unlimited-feeling” and “metered with overage charges” is exactly where project budgets quietly slip. At BuildApps we treat tool selection and cost as part of project scoping, not an afterthought — see how we approach custom software development, or get in touch to talk through what a project actually costs to build properly.