GitHub Copilot introduces new limits, charges for ‘premium’ AI models

GithabGithab’s AI Coding Assistant, owned by Microsoft, can soon become expensive for some users.

Friday, Github Declaration “Premium requests” for GitHub Kapilot, a new system that impose the rate of rate when switching to AI models other than base models for work like “agent” coding and multi-file edits. Although Githab Kapilot customers can still take unlimited verbs with the base model (OpenAE GPT -4O), work and actions with new models like anthropic 3.7 Sonnet will now be capded.

Copilot Pro ($ 20 per month) Tire customers will receive 300 monthly premium requests from May 5, Github says in one Blog postThe As Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users, they will receive 300 and 1000 monthly premium requests, starting from May 12 to May 19, respectively.

Any customers of this plan can buy additional premium requests at $ 0.04 for request or upgrade to the new Copilot Pro+ Plan of Githab. Starting $ 39 per month, Copilot Pro+ 1,500 premium requests and provides “access to the best models”, including Github OpenAI’s GPT -4.5.

Effective Price Increase for more enabled models of Copilot, which comes in which comes Devin raised rates for some users one day after the AI ​​Coding PlatformPerhaps these models are a reflection of the higher computing expenditure. Rational models like Sonnet take more time to check their answers, making them more reliable-but also enhances the computing needed to run.

Yet the copilat is not non -profit. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said last August that Github’s revenue growth was more than 5% of the revenue growth in 2021, and the technology giant was already a greater business than all Github when he achieved it about seven years ago.