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GitHub retired the flat "premium requests" allowance on 1 Jun 2026 and switched Copilot to an AI Credits metersrc. Each Copilot Code Review now consumes credits. The included monthly allotment is generous on Business, tight on Pro. August 2026 is a 2x-credit promo at no extra cost.
1-Premium requests retired. The old "X premium requests / month" allowance no longer exists on any plan.
2+Every Copilot interaction (chat, edit, agent, code review) now bills in AI Credits. Allotment depends on plan tiersrc.
3+August 2026 promotional period: 2x credits at no extra cost. Use it to model your true burn before paying overage.
1On Copilot Business ($19/user/mo) most teams will still sit inside the included credit allotment for Code Review at typical PR volumes. The math goes ugly at high-volume review-everything-twice policies.
2-GitHub has not published a $/credit overage rate in a single canonical place. The pricing page lists per-model credit consumption. Budget for it explicitly if you cross the cap.
3+For 10-dev teams already on Business, Copilot Code Review remains the "free at the margin" option. The break point is the team that does dense, large-PR review on every change.
1PR volumes above ~150/week with deep reasoning per review. The Credits meter starts to bite. CodeRabbit at $24/dev/mo or Greptile at $30/seat/mo bundle tokens and become more predictable.
2Multi-platform shops. Copilot Code Review on Azure DevOps lags GitHub; on GitLab it does not run. A dedicated reviewer is the cleaner answer.
1/tool/github-copilot-code-review - full file
2/vs/github-copilot-vs-coderabbit - the head-to-head
3/calculator - tick "has Copilot" to see the marginal-cost path