Vendor cost breakdown
GitHub Copilot cost in 2026 — and the seats nobody uses
GitHub Copilot Business is $19 per user per month and Enterprise is $39 — but the seat price is only the floor. With a large share of seats often sitting idle and June 2026 AI-Credit overages on top, the spend that actually leaks is the seats you pay for that nobody uses. DevSpend connects read-only to GitHub for per-user last-activity and the reclaimable dollars.
Prices verified against official vendor pages on Jun 12, 2026. All waste figures are estimates from your own inputs.
Example reconciliation
A typical setup
Billing
What you pay
$380/mo
Entitlements
Seats you bought
20 seats
Activity
Who is active
15 active
Recoverable waste
Inactive paid seats
$95/mo
Estimated from a typical setup — DevSpend reconciles these three the same way across every vendor. Edit it below.
GitHub Copilot plans and per-seat prices
VENDOR| Plan | Price / seat / month | Best for | Usage notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copilot Free | $0 | Individuals | 2,000 completions/month and limited chat/agent usage. |
| Copilot Pro | $10 | Individuals | Unlimited completions; $15 in monthly AI Credits included. |
| Copilot Pro+ | $39 | Individuals (premium models) | $70 in monthly AI Credits included. |
| Copilot Business | $19 | Teams and organizations | $19 in monthly AI Credits per seat, pooled across the business; bulk discounts from 10 seats. |
| Copilot Enterprise | $39 | GitHub Enterprise Cloud orgs | Larger pooled AI-Credit allowance plus enterprise controls. |
Where teams waste money on GitHub Copilot
TELEMETRYFINANCE- Assigned-but-inactive Business seats still bill $19/month each. GitHub exposes per-user last-activity data, so reclaiming them is the fastest Copilot saving.
- Since June 2026, chat, agents, and code review draw from pooled AI Credits — pooling hides which users drive overage spend unless you set per-user or org budgets.
- Developers who expense an individual Pro or Pro+ plan while also holding a company Business seat are paying twice for the same assistant.
- Bulk discounts kick in automatically at 10, 25, and 50 seats (5/10/15%) — right-sizing seat count around those thresholds changes the effective per-seat price.
How to find unused GitHub Copilot seats
VENDORTELEMETRY- In GitHub, open Organization settings → Copilot → Access and export the seat list.
- Sort by Last activity — Business or Enterprise seats idle for 30+ days still bill $19–$39 each.
- Remove idle seats, or switch seat assignment from “All members” to selected teams so seats aren’t auto-granted.
- Re-check the next invoice: Copilot bills per assigned seat, so reclaimed seats stop billing at the next cycle.
- Set per-user or org AI-Credit budgets so a few heavy users don’t silently drive pooled overage.
Estimate your GitHub Copilot spend
The calculator below is prefilled with a typical GitHub Copilot setup — for example, this one runs $380/month with an estimated $95/month lost to inactive seats. Swap in your own seats and prices for a live estimate. Save it to a free workspace and DevSpend tracks the gap over time across every vendor; Pro adds per-user and per-team cost metrics and reconciliation against your real billing. Nothing is saved until you create a workspace.
Tool inputs
Seats, price, active estimate, and usage/API spend. Nothing is saved yet.
Active is your best estimate of seats in real use — the gap to assigned seats is your recoverable waste. Active can’t exceed seats, so it’s capped automatically.
GitHub Copilot cost FAQ
How much does GitHub Copilot Business cost per seat?
Copilot Business is $19 per user per month, which includes $19 in monthly GitHub AI Credits per seat pooled across the business. Copilot Enterprise is $39 per user per month. Bulk discounts apply automatically: 5% off at 10+ seats, 10% at 25+, and 15% at 50+.
What changed with GitHub Copilot billing in June 2026?
On June 1, 2026 GitHub moved Copilot to usage-based billing. Premium requests were replaced by GitHub AI Credits (1 credit = $0.01) that meter chat, agents, code review, and CLI usage. Code completions stay unlimited on paid tiers, and seat prices for Business and Enterprise did not change.
Is GitHub Copilot Enterprise worth $39 per seat?
Enterprise adds a larger pooled AI-Credit allowance, indexing against your codebase, and admin budget controls at the enterprise, cost-center, and user level. If most of your developers only use completions and occasional chat, Business at $19 usually covers them — measure actual credit consumption before upgrading everyone.
How do I find inactive GitHub Copilot seats?
GitHub’s Copilot seat-management API reports per-user last-activity timestamps. Comparing seats purchased against seats active in the last 30 days is the standard waste check — a DevSpend AI workspace tracks that gap and the dollars attached to it over time.
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