Get ready for GitHub Copilot's new usage-based billing
A free 5-Step checklist to prepare your organization
For most organizations, the first question will not be “What is a token?” It
will be much more practical: What does this mean for our teams, our
budget, and our day-to-day Copilot usage?
Our bill is increasing 42%. Here’s how we’re optimizing it.
GitHub Copilot
Your Copilot bill just changed. Get ahead of it in 2 hours.
GitHub Copilot's new token billing went live June 1. Organizations that don't prepare will face budget overruns they can't explain. We're a GitHub verified partner, and we've already helped multiple teams baseline their usage before the window closes.
- Stakeholder & admin readiness (standalone session, 1 hour)
- User token optimization (add on session(s), 1 hour)
Sessions are delivered live by one of our expert certified GitHub Copilot Instructors and additional Support Personnel. They are interactive sessions with realtime support and global time zone coverage.
Stakeholder & Admin Readiness 1 Hour Session
This session gives the people responsible for Copilot governance a clear picture of what's changing, what it means for budget, and what actions to take.
What's covered:
- What changes and what doesn't
- How token-based costs work
- Reading your usage data, and how to treat the preview as a planning tool, not an invoice
- Budget guardrails — the four-layer system, alert thresholds, and two critical behavior changes
- The promotional transition window — June–August, and how to use this period to baseline, tune, and prepare
- Before/during/after launch checklist — what to do now, what to monitor, and how to report to engineering and finance
Token Optimization 1 Hour Session
This session gives Copilot users a practical understanding of how their daily Copilot habits connect to AI Credit consumption — and techniques to get better results without burning unnecessary credits.
What's covered:
- What changed and why it matters for day-to-day use
- How tokens accumulate in practice
- Always-on and path-level instructions — write lean instruction files that guide without inflating overhead
- Context management in Agent mode — providing as much context as required, as little as necessary
- Custom agents and MCPs — how scoped agents with restricted tool-sets only pay for what they actually need
- Five habits that reduce waste without slowing down