GitHub Enterprise now bundles Copilot access for every seat
Copilot moves from a per-seat add-on to usage-based billing against a shared enterprise budget, with core completions staying on even if that budget runs dry.
GitHub said today that Copilot access is now included with GitHub Enterprise Cloud for every licensed user, replacing the old setup where you bought a separate block of Copilot seats on top of your Enterprise plan.
Usage now counts against a single enterprise-wide AI budget instead of per-seat pricing, and there’s no included allowance: metering starts as soon as anyone uses it. Code completion and next edit suggestions keep working even if that budget is exhausted, but Copilot Chat, code review and Copilot’s cloud agents stop until more budget is added. It’s live now for enterprises that work with a GitHub or Microsoft account team on GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Existing self-serve Enterprise accounts keep their current Copilot subscriptions unaffected for now, with GitHub saying a self-serve version of the new model is coming within weeks. Anyone outside an Enterprise licence can still buy Copilot Standalone at $10 a user a month.
Why it matters: if you administer a GitHub Enterprise account, the planning question changes from “how many Copilot seats do we need” to “how much AI budget do we expose, and to whom”. Nobody loses baseline completions when the budget runs out, but the features people actually lean on for real work, chat and code review, go dark until finance tops it up.
The caveat: this only applies to sales-assisted Enterprise Cloud accounts today. Self-serve customers keep paying per seat until GitHub ships the self-serve equivalent.