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GitHub Copilot<\/a>, Microsoft-owned GitHub\u2019s AI coding assistant, could soon become costlier for some users.<\/p>\n On Friday, GitHub announced<\/a> \u201cpremium requests\u201d for GitHub Copilot, a new system that imposes rate limits when users switch to AI models other than the base model for tasks such as \u201cagentic\u201d coding and multi-file edits. While GitHub Copilot subscribers can still take unlimited actions with the base model (OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4o), tasks and actions with newer models, like Anthropic\u2019s 3.7 Sonnet, will now be capped.<\/p>\n Customers on the Copilot Pro ($20 per month) tier will receive 300 monthly premium requests beginning on May 5, GitHub said in a blog post<\/a>. As for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users, they\u2019ll receive 300 and 1,000 monthly premium requests, respectively, starting between May 12 and May 19.<\/p>\n Customers on any of those plans can purchase additional premium requests at $0.04 per request or upgrade to GitHub\u2019s new Copilot Pro+ plan. Starting at $39 per month, Copilot Pro+ offers 1,500 premium requests and \u201caccess to the best models,\u201d GitHub says, including OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4.5.<\/p>\n The effective price hike for Copilot\u2019s more capable models, which comes a day after AI coding platform Devin increased rates for some users<\/a>, is perhaps a reflection of the higher computing costs these models incur. Reasoning models like 3.7 Sonnet take more time to fact-check their answers, making them more reliable \u2014 but also increasing the computing needed to run them.<\/p>\n Yet Copilot isn\u2019t unprofitable. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said last August that Copilot accounted for over 40% of GitHub\u2019s revenue growth in 2024 and is already a larger business than all of GitHub when the tech giant acquired it roughly seven years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n