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GitHub Enterprise now includes Copilot: seats are bundled, AI usage moves to your budget

From 28 October 2026 account-team customers can get Copilot included with every GitHub Enterprise licence, with AI usage metered against an enterprise budget from the first request. Standalone Copilot is $10 per user per month.

On 28 October 2026 GitHub announced that enterprises working with a GitHub or Microsoft account team can now get Copilot included with GitHub Enterprise for every licensed user.

What changes

The bundled Copilot has the same features and models as Copilot Enterprise but no monthly AI credits per seat. AI usage is metered against the enterprise budget from the first request, under existing policies, alerts and attribution. Code completion and next edit suggestions keep working with no budget left; Copilot Chat, code review and Copilot in the cloud need available budget. Users in an enterprise without a GitHub Enterprise licence can get Copilot Standalone at $10 per user per month.

Availability

It is available now for account-team customers on GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Self-serve customers are not included yet; GitHub says dates will follow “in the coming weeks”. Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise remain on sale.

What it means

The seat is becoming the cheap part. The real cost of AI in software teams is usage, and GitHub is now telling large buyers to manage it like cloud spend: a budget, alerts and attribution, rather than a headcount multiplied by a price. Expect the same framing from other vendors.

So what

If you run engineering spend, treat AI usage as a variable budget line with an owner. If you buy development from a supplier, ask how their AI tooling costs are controlled and whether they reach your estimate. Our AI-assisted development approach is priced on delivered outcomes, not tool seats. To talk it through, start a project.

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