GitHub Copilot
- Free allowance
- Free: USD 0, 2,000 completions per month, access to entry level models, limited chat and agent usage, Copilot CLI and agent mode, community support, no credit card required
- Verdict
- ★ qualifiesusable as stated; the read path was probed
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate2,000 completions per month on Free
- Evidence
- documented9 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | Free: USD 0, 2,000 completions per month, access to entry level models, limited chat and agent usage, Copilot CLI and agent mode, community support, no credit card required unit requests; metered on request-count; 2,000 is completions, not agent turns or tokens. Chat, agent mode and the Copilot CLI draw on a Free allowance of GitHub AI Credits whose size is unpublished, and Free reaches models through auto model selection only; 1 AI credit is USD 0.01. Paid tiers carry 1,500, 7,000 and 20,000 credits a month. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Identity | email a GitHub account; the page states 'No credit card required' for Free |
| Egress | not applicable |
| Interface | cli, rest Copilot CLI, plus agent mode and code review inside the editor and on github.com |
| Tooling | gh CLI extension; agent mode in VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, Xcode, Eclipse |
| Composes with | a $0 agent surface for a repository task; the Copilot CLI is the part a script can drive |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | Free is the only tier here whose monthly allowance is stated in a unit that does not inflate: completions. The paid tiers moved to GitHub AI Credits, so their allowance is denominated in money rather than in requests. |
| Evidence note | documented prices and the Free allowance are quoted from the vendor page read. The per-credit consumption rate of agent mode is not published here. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 9
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | github.com/features/copilot/plans | Free is USD 0 with 2,000 completions a month and no card; Pro USD 10, Pro+ USD 39, Max USD 100; monthly credit allowances USD 15, USD 70, USD 200 |
| 2026-10-30 | github.com/features/copilot/plans | Free is 2,000 completions a month with entry level models; the card no longer names Haiku 4.5 or GPT-5 mini |
| 2026-10-30 | docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/billing/usage-based-bill | Free has an AI credit allowance of unstated size and reaches models through auto model selection only |
| 2026-10-30 | github.com/features/copilot/plans | Free still needs no credit card |
| 2026-10-30 | github.com/features/copilot/plans | the Copilot CLI and agent mode remain on Free |
| 2026-11-02 | github.com/features/copilot/plans | the plans page states the Free allowance of GitHub AI Credits as a label with no number, in both the Total and Base credits rows |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/billing/individual-plans | the individual plans table gives the Free AI Credits column as an allowance with no figure, while Pro, Pro+ and Max carry numbers |
| 2026-11-02 | docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/billing-and-usage/indivi | the billing page's allowance table covers only the paid plans, and Free is described without a figure |
| 2026-11-02 | github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilot-indivi | the vendor's announcement of the individual plans gives Free chat and agent usage as limited, with no credit figure |
Unknown values 4
- egress terms: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer