Summary
On July 2, 2026 GitHub added AI credit pools to cost centers, letting enterprises cap a cost center's included Copilot AI credits to what its own assigned Copilot Business and Enterprise licenses fund, with the limit auto-calculated from assigned licenses. The control is currently REST API only.
What changed
An AI credit pool stops a cost center from consuming more included AI credits than its own assigned licenses fund; GitHub auto-computes the cap from assigned licenses and lets admins choose to block or allow overage when a cap is hit. Available for Copilot Business and Enterprise on GitHub Enterprise Cloud via REST API.
Why it matters
As Copilot moves to usage-based AI credits, chargeback and budget enforcement become essential for large orgs; credit pools give finance and platform teams hard cost boundaries per team without manual number-tuning.
Evidence excerpt
An AI credit pool stops a cost center from using more included AI credits than its own assigned Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise licenses fund.