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SK-2026-062 · Pricing, billing & commercial terms

GitHub retires the Copilot Billing Preview app in favour of built-in spend controls

The separate Copilot Billing Preview app retires on 3 August 2026 and GitHub directs organisations to built-in usage, budget, cost-centre and API controls.

Retirement scheduled

Commercial transition

Previous stateOrganisations could use the separate Copilot Billing Preview app to inspect Copilot usage-based spend.
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New stateThe app retires and GitHub directs users to the AI usage page, budgets, user-level budgets, cost centres, usage reports and billing API.

Who is affected

GitHub organisations using the Copilot Billing Preview app.

Action required

Move reporting and spend-control workflows to the built-in billing surfaces and APIs before retirement.

Evidence boundary

This retires one reporting application, not Copilot billing itself. Replacement visibility and control depend on account or organisation permissions.

Timeline

  1. Retirement announced

    GitHub identified the replacement spend-control surfaces.

  2. App retirement

    The separate Billing Preview app becomes unavailable.

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