How to find premium request usage?

[DanBradbury]

Billing for premium requests will start on the following dates:

May 5, 2025: Copilot Free, Copilot Pro, and Copilot Pro+
May 12, 2025: Self-service (credit card) Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise
May 19, 2025: Sales-served (invoiced) Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise

With the announcement that premium requests will start to be charged starting next month what are the current plans to expose a users current usage? Possible that I've missed an announcement of a new API endpoint / expansion of the copilot billing endpoint

Would like to make sure my workflow doesn't blow up my premium requests :D

[Akash1134]

Hi @DanBradbury,

Great question about tracking your premium request usage as we approach the billing start dates! Based on the official GitHub documentation, here's how you can monitor your premium request usage:

For Individual Users (Copilot Pro/Pro+)

You can view your premium request usage through the GitHub UI:

1. Click your profile photo in the upper-right corner of any GitHub page
2. Select "Settings"
3. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click "Billing & Licensing"
4. Under "Usage by product", select the "Copilot" tab
5. You'll see your premium request usage there, with an option to "View details" for a more detailed breakdown

This UI should be available by the time billing starts on May 8, 2025, for Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users.

For Organization Admins (Copilot Business/Enterprise)

For organization-level monitoring, you can use the same UI approach as above, but you'll need to be an organization owner or billing manager.

Additionally, there are REST API endpoints available for programmatic tracking:

• GET /orgs/{org}/copilot/metrics - Provides organization-level metrics
• GET /orgs/{org}/team/{team_slug}/copilot/metrics - Provides team-level metrics

These API endpoints provide aggregated metrics, though currently they don't appear to specifically break down premium request usage per individual user. The metrics include data for features that use premium requests, such as Copilot Chat and various models.

Setting Spending Limits

To prevent unexpected costs, you can set budget limits in your account settings once the feature becomes available (starting May 8 for individual plans). This will help manage your usage by triggering alerts at 75%, 90%, and 100% of your budget.

Hope this helps with your workflow planning! As new monitoring features may be rolled out closer to the billing dates, I'd recommend checking the GitHub Copilot documentation for the most up-to-date information.

Thanks,
Akash

[IanDaley]

How bad is this? New limits are being imposed and there is still no way to check these limits.

"Should be available" - should be? Completely unsatisfactory for a paid product that was once sold as 'unlimited'

[phillips-tech]

You'll see your premium request usage there, with an option to "View details" for a more detailed breakdown

We're on Copilot Enterprise - no premium request usage here.

[zemariavg]

Hey,

Just wanted to add that I'm on Copilot Pro and have made a bunch of chat completions and premium requests, but when I go to:

Settings → Billing & Licensing → Usage by product → Copilot

…it still says "No usage found".

This is after May 8, so I was expecting something to show up by now. Is it still rolling out, or does usage only appear after certain thresholds?

Would be great to know if others are seeing the same. Thanks!

[quiet-node]

I got the exact same behavior. Still show No usage found

[sascharo]

Same for me, I get absolutely no relevant stats when I log in and check the mentioned section.

[phillips-tech]

There is now the option to download a Usage Report for Copilot Premium Requests (for Enterprise accounts at least) at Enterprise > Billing and licensing > Usage.

[zemariavg]

Did you end up receiving the report? I am on Pro and I have that option as well. Two weeks have passed and I still didn't receive any usage report in my email 🤷‍♂️

[phillips-tech]

Yes, I received the report without issue.

[DanBradbury]

can confirm that im seeing this on the personal side as well

My frustration continues to be that this data is not exposed at the API level. There should be some sort of plan to expose this data on one of the billing endpoints so that users can interact with Copilot in any way they see fit and properly monitor their use. As the creator of a copilot-chat plugin for vim I know that someone using my plugin is going to forget they changed the model and will receive a massive bill.. I understand M$ desire to abuse this fact but why not allow competent developers of plugins to expose this to devs who might be price sensitive and just experimenting with the tool to learn and see capabilities.. not rack up massive bills because of premium requests on a model they are using and forgot to reset

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Update Idk what to think about the format of this either

I'm really not looking forward to waiting for this report to generate with 1k+ users over the course of a month..

[JranZu]

This is correct, and at the moment, the only way to see it. Other places are broken. Thanks for sharing!

[gregdon]

I too am looking for this to be in an API - currently manually downloading and shredding - great data for sure.

[ohofherr]

Does anybody know if it is possible to get this report if you are a user of an organization that grants you access to copilot?

[JranZu]

You would have to ask whomever is in charge of the billing to get it for you - and it would be for everyone, not just you.

[ohofherr]

I'm in charge for an organization and the last thing I want to do is answer emails every day regarding this issue.

These limits should have not been implemented for organizations without the possibility for the users to track their usage!

[JranZu]

Users can track their usage from VS/VS Code -- but I agree (as a user at a company) - I would like to be able to see my usage there like I can on my personal account.

[ffma-glen-sampson]

+1 for getting usage report as user of an organisation that’s not an admin/billing role

+1 for any form of API call that we could hit daily based on {org}/{user-name}?{date-range}

[Akash1134]

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for your ongoing feedback regarding premium request usage tracking. We've been monitoring this thread and understand the frustration around the limited visibility into usage metrics.

I want to address the key concerns raised:

1. The inconsistent availability of usage data in the GitHub UI
2. The need for programmatic access to usage data via API
3. The challenges for organization users who aren't admins but need to track their personal usage
4. The limited utility of the current CSV download option, especially for large organizations

We recognize that proper usage visibility is important now that premium request billing has been implemented.

For now, the most reliable method remains downloading usage reports through your billing settings.

Note that since our June 18th enforcement of premium request limits, we've been closely monitoring feedback across all channels.

Thank you for your patience and for highlighting these important issues.

Regards,
Akash

[sammcj]

Keen to hear how you're going to address those key concerns?

From what I've seen the heavily reduced rate limits for paying Copilot customers is already starting to drive people to competing offerings.

[anchildress1]

To add to the list, if you're a VS Code user you get a tiny percentage tracker in the lower status bar if you click the copilot icon. This is my free user, so you don't see the premium requests in this screenshot but it's how you access it nonetheless 😄

Updated to add - I've heard of some people having trouble with this not updating correctly. I haven't personally had trouble (it was already a giant red 0 by the time I found it), but restarting (or extreme reinstalling) seems to fix the issue for most.

[sammcj]

The amount of comments I'm seeing from people at work complaining they've hit the entire months Copilot limits in less than a week is crazy.

[AdamFrisby]

Honestly I hit the limit in the first day, the whole point of the agent feature is parallelism.

[HarshitViskrma]

To find your premium request usage, you'll need to navigate to the specific platform or service you're using. For example, if you're using GitHub Copilot, you can view your premium request usage through the GitHub UI by going to your profile settings, then "Billing & Licensing", and then the "Copilot" tab. For Google Maps Platform Premium Plan, usage reports are available in the Google Cloud Console, under "Metrics".
Here's a more detailed breakdown:
For GitHub Copilot (Individual Users - Copilot Pro/Pro+):
Access your profile: Click your profile photo on any GitHub page.
Go to Settings: Select "Settings" from the dropdown menu.
Navigate to Billing & Licensing: In the sidebar, find and click on "Billing & Licensing" under the "Access" section.
Find Copilot Usage: Under "Usage by product", select the "Copilot" tab.
View Details: Here, you'll see your premium request usage, with an option to "View details" for a more granular breakdown.

[neuralsim]

To find your premium request usage, you'll need to navigate to the specific platform or service you're using. For example, if you're using GitHub Copilot, you can view your premium request usage through the GitHub UI by going to your profile settings, then "Billing & Licensing", and then the "Copilot" tab. For Google Maps Platform Premium Plan, usage reports are available in the Google Cloud Console, under "Metrics". Here's a more detailed breakdown: For GitHub Copilot (Individual Users - Copilot Pro/Pro+): Access your profile: Click your profile photo on any GitHub page. Go to Settings: Select "Settings" from the dropdown menu. Navigate to Billing & Licensing: In the sidebar, find and click on "Billing & Licensing" under the "Access" section. Find Copilot Usage: Under "Usage by product", select the "Copilot" tab. View Details: Here, you'll see your premium request usage, with an option to "View details" for a more granular breakdown.

I don't see any usage by product option. Just Metered usage on that page and it's got no data.

I also can't get what I used last month, which is important for me to understand so I can get a feel for what I can do this month. When I downloaded the CSV it was for the current month! And there's no option to get a previous month.

[zioalex]

Is any rest api endpoint available to get such data...?
Requesting the report monthly is really annoying.

[julianmaze]

I echo the thread. Can you please expose a REST API endpoint to get premium request usage data?

[fval-ktc]

@julianmaze https://docs.github.com/en/rest/billing/usage?apiVersion=2022-11-28#get-billing-premium-request-usage-report-for-an-organization exists but it doesn't break it down per user, just per model

[matijagrcic]

you can include user name in query and then get it for each user in the org

[fval-ktc]

@matijagrcic yep, you can iterate through all the users, and was able to get the data using that parameter.

was imagining a similar output to the github actions endpoint where all the repositories are listed with each usage.

[matijagrcic]

@fval-ktc yeah afaik this isn't exposed thru API yet, it will be probably as they are constantly iterating adding new endpoints.

[matijagrcic]

More APIs for analytics https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-18-enterprise-level-pull-request-activity-metrics-now-in-public-preview/

[fval-ktc]

Based on how the release was worded, I thought the new API would allow us to create our own userlist of copilot usage

We’re also shipping a dedicated API endpoint for premium request analytics data that allows users to build internal dashboards, create custom usage reports, and easily track expenses across teams. For more information reference our API documentation.

But I can't seem to find a way to get the premium request usage without me iterating through each of the users in the organization?

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-30-premium-requests-analytics-page-is-now-generally-available/

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