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GitHub's promotional AI credit allowance ends after 31 August 2026, cutting the pooled monthly allowance 37% for Copilot Business and 44% for Enterprise. Here is the arithmetic and the four defaults behind it.
GitHub shipped two Copilot cloud agent changes on 3 August 2026: a per-task reasoning level and automations that fire on issue or pull request comments. Both raise token spend, and GitHub's billing doc says nothing
Databricks Genie meters text-to-SQL in DBUs from July 6, 2026; Snowflake Cortex Analyst bills per message at a flat AI Credit price. A 2026 comparison of which is cheaper to run and easier to forecast.
GitHub Copilot now bills by GitHub AI Credits, not seats alone. A senior engineer's guide to credit pools, cost-center caps, per-user budgets and chargeback that holds at scale in 2026.
