GoKawiilDevelopers and engineering teams worldwide use GitHub Copilot for high-quality, agent-powered code reviews on every pull request. We understand that any change is significant to our customers, especially when it relates to billing, so we are sharing this update early to help you plan and prepare. The sections below outline what is changing, why, and how to plan accordingly.
Last month, we shared how GitHub Copilot code review runs on agentic tool-calling architecture, allowing the code review agent to pull in broader repository context and produce more relevant feedback on each pull request. That agentic architecture runs on GitHub Actions using GitHub-hosted runners (Note: GitHub Copilot code review also supports self-hosted runners and GitHub-hosted larger runners which are billed at different rates than standard GitHub-hosted runners.)
Starting June 1, 2026, each Copilot code review will be billed in two ways:
All Copilot usage (including code reviews) will be billed as AI Credits under the new usage-based billing model (see the usage-based billing announcement for additional details).
GitHub Actions minutes will be consumed from your existing plan entitlement for each review that is run on private repositories, with any usage beyond your included minutes billed at standard GitHub Actions rates. You or your organization administrator (for GitHub Teams and Enterprise) can use budgets to manage spending on GitHub Actions. There are no changes to public repositories, where Actions minutes remain free.
This change applies to the following plans:
GitHub Copilot Pro
GitHub Copilot Pro+
GitHub Copilot Business
GitHub Copilot Enterprise
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