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GitHub Copilot introduces new limits, charges for ‘premium’ AI models
GitHub Copilot, Microsoft-owned GitHub's AI coding assistant, could soon become costlier for some users, thanks to new limits.
On Friday, GitHub announced “premium requests” for GitHub Copilot, a new system that imposes rate limits when users switch to AI models other than the base model for tasks such as “agentic” coding and multi-file edits. Starting at $39 per month, Copilot Pro+ offers 1,500 premium requests and “access to the best models,” GitHub says, including OpenAI’s GPT-4.5. Reasoning models like 3.7 Sonnet take more time to fact-check their answers, making them more reliable — but also increasing the computing needed to run them.
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