Copilot Billing Preview app will be retired on August 3
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GitHub will retire the Copilot Billing Preview app on August 3, 2026, transitioning users to enhanced billing settings that provide more comprehensive insights into AI usage and spending.
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GitHub will retire the Copilot Billing Preview app on August 3, 2026, transitioning users to enhanced billing settings that provide more comprehensive insights into AI usage and spending. Users can now manage budgets and access detailed usage data directly from their GitHub billing settings.
Key Points
- Copilot Billing Preview app will be retired on August 3, 2026.
- Enhanced billing settings now include user-level budgets and cost centers.
- Users can review AI usage and manage spending directly in billing settings.
- Raw usage data can be accessed anytime via usage reports and billing API.
- The transition aims to provide a complete picture of spending.
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~1 min readThe Copilot Billing Preview app will be retired on August 3, 2026. If you use it to review your GitHub Copilot spend, you can get even greater visibility directly in your GitHub billing settings.
The app was built to help you understand your bill as Copilot moved to usage-based billing. Since then, your billing settings have grown to cover details the app’s underlying reports can’t show (e.g., user-level budgets, cost centers, and how usage pools are allocated). Rather than leave you with an incomplete picture, GitHub is retiring the app in favor of the built-in experience.
What to use instead
You can review and manage your Copilot spend without the app:
- See your AI usage on the AI usage page in your billing settings, where you can group, filter, and export your AI credit data.
- Set budgets to cap your spend.
- If you’re an organization or enterprise, user-level budgets will help you control and track spend at an individual level.
- Pull raw usage data anytime from your usage reports and the billing API.
To learn more, see GitHub Copilot billing.
— Originally published at github.blog
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