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GitHub Copilot limits

Premium request quotas, reset timing, model multipliers, and service throttling. Values below are scoped rather than flattened into one misleading platform-wide number.

Verified Aug 22, 2026Official docs
Quick answer:  GitHub Copilot has multiple independent constraints. Match the exact plan, model, runtime, invocation mode, or server configuration shown in each row.

Current documented limits

ConstraintCurrent valueScopeVerified source
monthly premium requestsOther plans receive monthly GitHub AI Credits instead: Pro 1,500, Pro+ 7,000, Max 20,000, where one credit equals $0.01.Legacy annual Pro: 300; Pro+: 1,500 per monthAnnual Pro/Pro+ on legacy request-based billing (after 2026-06-01)GitHubSep 17, 2026
monthly resetBoth legacy premium requests and GitHub AI Credits reset at 00:00:00 UTC on the first day of each calendar month; unused allowance is forfeited.1st of each month at 00:00:00 UTCLegacy request-based billing and GitHub AI CreditsGitHubSep 17, 2026
code review multiplierUnder usage-based billing, code review is charged in AI credits by tokens plus GitHub Actions minutes rather than a fixed multiplier.13 premium requests per reviewLegacy annual Pro/Pro+ plansGitHubSep 17, 2026

How to apply GitHub Copilot limits safely

The monitored baseline covers monthly premium requests, monthly reset, code review multiplier. Treat these as separate constraints rather than one platform-wide capacity number: a workload can fit one row and still fail another because the plan, model, endpoint, runtime, region, invocation mode, or account scope differs.

  1. Match the production workload to the exact scope printed beside each value and confirm it in the active GitHub Copilot console, configuration, or response headers.
  2. Measure the serialized request, token volume, duration, concurrency, storage, or connection demand at realistic percentiles, then preserve headroom for bursts and retries.
  3. Check every adjacent layer—client, SDK, gateway, proxy, queue, database, and downstream service—for a smaller effective limit before changing architecture.

Specific limit pages

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Official sources

Requests in GitHub Copilot (legacy request-based billing)
Model multipliers for annual plans on request-based billing (legacy)

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