Big news for developers using GitHub Copilot!
A new update to the Copilot coding agent has introduced a major improvement in how premium requests are counted—each session now only consumes one premium request. This means better efficiency and more value for your Copilot subscription.
🧠 What Changed?
Previously, every single interaction with Copilot’s coding agent could count as a separate premium request, which could quickly eat into your quota. With this update:
Only one premium request is consumed per session, no matter how many code completions or interactions occur in that session.
🔍 What’s New?
As of July 2025, GitHub Copilot sessions are more request-efficient. Instead of charging a premium request for every individual interaction, Copilot will now charge only once per session.
A session is a logical unit of interaction with the Copilot coding agent. It can last as long as:
- You’re actively working within a single coding context, and
- You don’t let the session idle for too long or close the tab.
This means:
- You can get multiple completions, fixes, suggestions, and even iterative feedback within the same session.
- You’ll use significantly fewer premium requests for the same level of productivity.
🧠 Why It Matters
This change is especially impactful for frequent users, teams, and developers working in iterative loops (which is, let’s be honest, all of us).
🚀 Key Benefits:
- Improved efficiency: Get more output from each premium request.
- Lower usage count: Daily interactions no longer burn through your quota as quickly.
- Better ROI: Same subscription, more mileage.
This is particularly beneficial if you’re on a usage-capped Copilot plan, or if you use Copilot across multiple projects or codebases in a single day.
📊 Example Scenario
Let’s say you’re building a React component. Before this update:
- Prompting Copilot for a function suggestion = 1 request
- Refining that function = +1 request
- Adding validation logic = +1 request
Total: 3 premium requests
Now? Just 1 request. All of the above fall under a single session if done continuously.
📚 Learn More
GitHub has detailed the new model here:
👉 Understanding and managing requests in Copilot
💬 Final Thoughts
This is a welcome optimization from GitHub, making Copilot more developer- and budget-friendly. As Copilot continues to evolve, it’s great to see thoughtful updates that reduce friction and help us focus on what matters most—shipping better code.
If you’re building tools, frameworks, or just trying to be more productive day-to-day, this change will make your Copilot experience smoother and more cost-effective.
That’s it for now.
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