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  - Organisation tiers: Business $19 per granted seat/month, Enterprise $39 per granted seat/month. Enterprise needs GitHub Enterprise Cloud.
  - Free is deliberately capped: 2000 completions/month, limited chat, and models via auto-selection only — no free model picking.
  - Every paid plan bundles a monthly pool of GitHub AI Credits; higher tiers get larger allowances and priority access to newer models. Business includes roughly 1,900 credits/user, Enterprise roughly 3,900.
- - Billing moved to usage-based on 1 June 2026. Spend beyond the included credit pool is metered; premium requests remain only as a legacy reference.
+ - Billing moved to usage-based on 1 June 2026. Spend beyond the included credit pool is metered at **$0.01 per AI credit**; premium requests remain only as a legacy reference.
+ - On Business and Enterprise the credits are **pooled across the enterprise** — each licence contributes its allowance to one shared pot rather than a per-user ration. One heavy agent user draws from everyone's.
+ - **Code completions and next edit suggestions aren't billed in credits at all** and stay unlimited on every paid plan. Credit burn comes from chat, agents and the coding agent.
  - Pro is free for verified teachers and maintainers of popular open-source projects.
  - Business and Enterprise add centralised policy control, seat management and the contractual data terms (no training on your data, IP indemnity with duplication detection on).
  - Max is the individual heavy-use tier — Pro+ features plus the largest personal credit allowance and priority model access.
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  ## Consultant notes
  
  - For business cases, model cost as seats plus expected credit overage from agent use, not just the sticker per-seat price. Agent and coding-agent runs consume credits faster than completions.
+ - The pooled credit model is the bit clients don't expect. Budget is set per seat, consumption isn't, so a small group running the coding agent hard can empty the pool for a department that only ever uses completions — and completions are free, so those users never show up in the usage conversation. Agree a monitoring cadence and a spending cap in the same meeting you agree the seat count.
  - The data and IP terms — not features — are usually the reason to insist on Business/Enterprise over individual plans in a corporate setting.
  - Verify current pricing on the day. GitHub has re-cut the plan line-up more than once (Max and the credits model are recent); anything hard-coded here can drift.