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GitHub Copilot premium requests exhausted — how to fix

You've reached your monthly limit of premium requests
Quick answer

Copilot plans include a monthly quota of “premium requests” (frontier-model chats, agent-mode runs). When it's gone, you're limited to the included base model until the month resets — unless you enable extra billing or run a BYO-key agent in the same editor.

What causes it

How to fix it

  1. Switch to the included base model for routine work; spend premium requests on hard problems.
  2. Enable additional premium requests in billing (pay-per-request overage).
  3. Upgrade the plan tier for a bigger monthly quota.
  4. Run a BYO-key agent extension (Cline, Roo Code, Kilo Code) alongside Copilot for unmetered agentic work.
Running an agent?

Agent mode is billed per request with model multipliers — a single long agentic session can eat a large share of a month's premium quota.

The permanent fix

Stop hitting this entirely

Copilot's quota can't be redirected — but the same VS Code window can run Cline, Roo Code, or Kilo Code pointed at Standard Compute (OpenAI-compatible, flat price, unlimited). Keep Copilot's completions; move the heavy agent work to an unmetered extension. Guides: /integrations/cline, /integrations/roo-code, /integrations/kilo-code.

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FAQ

Do unused premium requests roll over?

No — the quota resets each calendar month and unused requests are lost.

What happens after I hit the limit?

Chat and agent mode fall back to the included base model (or prompt you to buy overage). Code completions keep working.

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