Introduction
When you adopt GitHub Copilot in a company, you will sign up to a Copilot plan designed for businesses. These plans allow you to grant access to users and meet security requirements with policies and audit logs.
To identify which plan is right for your company:
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Define the overall goals you are hoping to achieve with your Copilot rollout. Think about downstream goals such as reducing security debt, as opposed to earlier success indicators such as developer satisfaction or feature adoption.
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Understand the benefits of Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise, including premium request allowances.
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Choose the Copilot plan with the allowances and features that will help you meet your goals.
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When you subscribe to Copilot at the enterprise level, you can choose a plan individually for each organization in your enterprise. This allows you to evaluate the benefits of Copilot Enterprise with a pilot program or enable it in the organizations where it will have the most impact.
This article explains the available plans and provides examples for how Copilot Enterprise can help you achieve specific business goals.
Plans and premium requests
GitHub offers two Copilot plans for customers on GitHub Enterprise Cloud:
- Copilot Business ($19 USD per user per month): includes most Copilot features in IDEs and on the GitHub website.
- Copilot Enterprise ($39 USD per user per month): includes a higher allowance for premium requests, and often allows earlier access to new features and models.
For a full comparison, see our plans page.
Premium requests are used by more advanced Copilot features and models, including AI agents. By giving members access to more premium requests, you can scale your company with AI agents and drive real business outcomes, such as reducing your backlog, accelerating pull requests, or increasing code quality with suggestions from more specialized models.
By default, users can continue to use premium requests after exhausting their plan's monthly allowance. However, each extra request is charged to your enterprise, and in many cases you can save money by upgrading users to Copilot Enterprise.
For more information about premium requests, see Requests in GitHub Copilot.
How does Copilot Enterprise support business goals?
The following table shows examples of goals your company might set for a Copilot rollout, and how premium requests and other Copilot Enterprise features can help you achieve those goals.
| Goal | Problem to solve | How Copilot Enterprise helps |
|---|---|---|
| Reduce your backlog | Teams may not have capacity to work on backlog issues or non-essential issues that come up during development. This can lead to a gradual degradation in feature quality. | With more premium requests, users can assign more issues to Copilot coding agent, which can complete tasks like fixing bugs or adding feature enhancements in the background. |
| Accelerate pull requests | Teams often experience delays in merging pull requests due to lengthy review cycles. This can lead to bottlenecks in the development process and slow down the delivery and improvement of features. | With more premium requests, users can receive more reviews on pull requests from Copilot code review, often flagging bugs or possible improvements before a human reviewer is available. |
| Reduce technical debt | Inefficient or hard-to-read code can accumulate over time, making it harder for team members to onboard and understand new areas of the code. | With more premium requests and access to the latest models, users can use agent mode in their IDE to refactor code, choosing models with greater contextual awareness that are more suited to tasks like complex refactoring. |
Is Copilot Enterprise the most cost effective choice?
We recommend considering the number of premium requests in the Copilot Business plan as a baseline, not a limit. Developers using agentic workflows including features like agent mode, Copilot coding agent, and Copilot code review are likely to surpass this allowance.
If your company is gaining value from agentic workflows, you will likely want to make more requests available to developers. Depending on how many requests people are using, the most cost effective way to do that is either to upgrade users to Copilot Enterprise or to enable paid usage for requests beyond your plan's allowance.
To download a usage report to see how many premium requests your developers are using, see Monitoring your GitHub Copilot usage and entitlements. Copilot Business users who use more than around 800 premium requests a month would save money on a Copilot Enterprise plan.
For more information on managing spending on premium requests, see Managing the premium request allowance for your organization or enterprise.
Getting started
When you've determined whether premium requests and Copilot Enterprise features will help you achieve your goals, it's time to choose a plan.
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