Screenshot: github.blog GitHub Copilot Adds a $100/Month Max Plan, Flex Allotments, and Severity Labels in Code Review
GitHub announced a new Copilot Max plan at $100/month with $200 in total monthly value, introduced flex allotments to Pro and Pro+, and shipped code review improvements including severity labels and grouped comments — all taking effect on June 1 with the AI Credits billing switch.
GitHub shipped two announcements on May 12 that build on last week’s AI Credits news: a new Max plan at the top of the Copilot lineup, flex allotments added to existing paid tiers, and code review improvements that make Copilot’s PR feedback easier to act on.
All of it goes live June 1.
The New Max Plan
Copilot now has four tiers: Free, Pro ($10/month), Pro+ ($39/month), and the new Max at $100/month.
The Max plan includes $200 in total monthly usage. That breaks into two parts: $100 in base credits and $100 in flex allotments. More on flex below.
Code completions and Next Edit Suggestions stay unlimited on all paid plans and don’t consume credits regardless of plan tier.
Flex Allotments Explained
Flex allotments are a variable portion of included usage that GitHub says is “designed to adapt as the economics of AI evolve.” The practical read: as inference costs drop over time, the flex amount could increase without a price change.
All three paid plans now include flex:
| Plan | Monthly price | Base credits | Flex | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pro | $10 | $10 | $5 | $15 |
| Pro+ | $39 | $39 | $31 | $70 |
| Max | $100 | $100 | $100 | $200 |
Flex applies automatically across IDE, github.com, and the Copilot CLI. No manual management required. If you burn through your included usage, additional credits are available for purchase.
AI Credits Billing Starts June 1
The June 1 switch — announced last week — replaces the old premium request model. One AI credit equals $0.01. GitHub has also opened a usage dashboard showing how April activity maps to the new credit units so subscribers can estimate impact before the billing change kicks in.
Code Review: Severity Labels and Grouped Comments
The changelog entry for May 12 includes two improvements to Copilot’s pull request review feature, available in the new pull requests experience.
Severity labels. Every Copilot code review comment now includes a classification: High, Medium, or Low, displayed in the top-right corner. The intent is to let you skip lower-priority suggestions on a tight deadline and address them later.
Grouped comments. When Copilot finds the same issue in multiple places, it now reports it once rather than pasting the same feedback across twenty lines. If a variable naming pattern needs fixing in ten places, you see one comment explaining the pattern instead of ten identical suggestions.
Both changes are live now for users in the new pull requests experience.
The Max plan is clearly aimed at teams currently buying ad-hoc credits over their limit on Pro+. At $200 total value for $100, it’s a reasonable deal if you’re a heavy user. The flex allotment framing is interesting; it’s essentially GitHub promising that your purchasing power will increase over time without requiring a renegotiation. Whether that plays out depends on whether inference costs keep falling at the pace they have been.
Sources:
- Introducing flex allotments in Pro and Pro+, and a new Max plan — GitHub blog
- Copilot code review comment experience improvements — GitHub changelog