GitHub Enterprise now includes Copilot

What changed

The enterprise budget, not the seat count, becomes the number to watch. Before, you managed two things: how many Copilot seats you paid for and how much AI usage those users consumed. With Copilot included in GitHub Enterprise, usage against your enterprise budget is the primary thing to manage.

How usage works

• Usage runs on the policies, alerts and attribution you already have. There’s no included usage allowance to track or top up, and no monthly AI credits per seat.
• Code completion and next edit suggestions keep working even with no budget available. Copilot Chat, Copilot code review and Copilot in the cloud need available budget.
• An exhausted budget never removes access: the seat and the features that don’t need budget stay.
• Access has the same features and models as Copilot Enterprise. People in your enterprise account without a GitHub Enterprise license get the same access through Copilot Standalone, at $10 per user per month.

Who can get it

Enterprises with a GitHub or Microsoft account team can use it now on GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Self-serve customers can’t yet: GitHub is opening it in stages and will share dates in the coming weeks, and current self-serve subscriptions are unaffected. Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise remain available to buy.

What to do

If you work with an account team, ask them about setting up a new enterprise account on this model or moving your existing one. Before you switch, check your enterprise budget and alerts, since Chat, code review and Copilot in the cloud stop working when no budget is available.