Monitoring your GitHub Copilot usage and entitlements

You can track your monthly usage of premium requests to help you get the most value from your Copilot plan.

Viewing premium request usage

There are multiple ways to view your premium request usage:

• View current usage directly within your IDE
• Viewing an overview in your Billing and licensing settings
• View detailed analytics of your usage
• Download a usage report for your personal account

If you reach your limit for premium requests, you will be notified with a message in each of the Copilot interfaces you use.

For information about viewing premium request usage for an organization or enterprise, see Viewing your usage of metered products and licenses.

Viewing usage in your IDE

If you're using Copilot in an editor, you can view your usage directly in the editor. For example, in Visual Studio Code, you can view information about features included in your plan, your progress towards any limits on your plan, and the date your allowance resets.

You can access usage information in the following IDEs.

• In Visual Studio Code, click the Copilot icon () in the status bar.
• In Visual Studio, click the Copilot icon () in the top right corner, then click Copilot Consumptions.
• In JetBrains IDEs, click the Copilot icon () in the status bar, then select View quote usage.
• In Xcode, click the Copilot icon () in the menu bar.
• In Eclipse, click the Copilot icon () in the status bar at the bottom of Eclipse.

Viewing an overview in your Billing and licensing settings

You can view an overview of your premium request usage at any time in your "Billing and licensing" settings on GitHub.com.

1. Open your billing overview page: https://github.com/settings/billing. The "Overview" page shows a summary of your current GitHub usage.
2. Scroll down to the "Metered usage" area and click Copilot to show only your Copilot use.

Viewing detailed analytics of your usage

1. Open your billing overview page: https://github.com/settings/billing.

2. In the side bar, click Premium request analytics to show detailed analytics.

3. Use the filter, "Group by", and "Timeframe" options to change the data displayed in the chart and table.

   Note

   Premium request analytics data are available from August 1, 2025 onward.

4. Optionally, to download the data shown in the chart, click the button and select your preferred format.

   

Downloading a usage report for your personal account

Reports include all premium request usage, both within and beyond your allowance.

1. Open your billing overview page: https://github.com/settings/billing.
2. In the side bar, click Premium request analytics to show detailed analytics.
3. At the top of the page, click Get usage report to generate a CSV report of your premium request use for the past 45 days.

When the report is ready for you to download, you'll receive a message to your primary email account with a link to download the report. The link will expire after 24 hours. For details of the fields included in the reports, see Billing reports reference.

Optimizing usage of premium requests

You can use the following strategies to maximize the value of your premium requests:

• Choose the right model for the task. Some models are better suited to different tasks. If you're using a premium request, you can strategically choose which model you use to get the best result from Copilot. See AI model comparison.

• Setting a budget. Set a budget to track your overages and receive alerts when you reach 75%, 90%, or 100% of your budget. See Setting up budgets to control spending on metered products.

• Monitor your usage regularly. Check your usage in your GitHub account settings to see how many premium requests you’ve used. This helps you plan how much you can use for the rest of the month.

• Upgrade if needed. If you find yourself consistently hitting your monthly allowance, consider upgrading to a plan with more premium requests included.

• Avoid retrying large prompts unnecessarily. Submitting the same long or complex prompt multiple times may use more premium requests. Try rephrasing or simplifying your request when needed.

• Define whether users can use premium requests over their included allowance (enterprises and organizations only). Set a policy to control whether users can incur extra costs for premium requests when they use up their included allowance. See Managing the premium request allowance for your organization or enterprise.

Accounts created before August 22, 2025 have a default $0 budget for Copilot premium requests. Premium requests over the allowance are rejected unless you edit or delete this budget.

Managing premium request billing with multiple Copilot licenses

If you have Copilot licenses from multiple standalone organizations or enterprises, you must define which entity is charged for your use of premium requests. Until you define a billing entity, all premium requests you make will be rejected.

In the Copilot feature settings for your personal account, a Usage billed to dropdown is displayed in the "Billing" section if you are assigned Copilot licenses by two or more enterprises or standalone organizations.

You can change your billing entity selection at any time. All subsequent premium requests are billed to the newly selected entity.