{"slug": "ai-credit-pools-for-cost-centers-in-the-billing-ui", "title": "AI credit pools for cost centers in the billing UI", "summary": "GitHub now lets Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise customers on GitHub Enterprise Cloud manage AI credit pools for cost centers directly in the billing UI, a feature previously restricted to the REST API. The pool automatically calculates its limit from assigned licenses and can block further included usage or allow overages at the limit. This tool prevents a cost center from consuming more AI credits than its own licenses fund and can be combined with a separate cost center budget for metered charges.", "body_md": "# AI credit pools for cost centers in the billing UI\n\nYou can now manage a cost center’s AI credit pool directly in the billing UI where you create and edit cost centers. Previously, you could only manage this through the GitHub REST API. This feature is available for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise on GitHub Enterprise Cloud.\n\nToggle the AI credit pool on when you create or edit a cost center. GitHub automatically calculates the pool limit from the assigned licenses and adjusts it as you add or remove them. Because of this, you never set a number yourself. You can also choose what happens at the limit: block further included usage or let it continue as additional spend if your enterprise allows overages.\n\nAn AI credit pool keeps a cost center from using more included AI credits than its own Copilot licenses fund, so each group stays within what it paid for. It’s separate from a cost center budget, which caps metered charges after the pool is exhausted. You can set both on the same cost center.\n\nTo learn more, see [Control GitHub costs at scale](https://docs.github.com/enterprise-cloud@latest/billing/tutorials/control-costs-at-scale).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-credit-pools-for-cost-centers-in-the-billing-ui", "canonical_source": "https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-20-ai-credit-pools-for-cost-centers-in-the-billing-ui", "published_at": "2026-07-20 18:24:14+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-20 19:09:41.767401+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["GitHub", "Copilot Business", "Copilot Enterprise", "GitHub Enterprise Cloud"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-credit-pools-for-cost-centers-in-the-billing-ui", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-credit-pools-for-cost-centers-in-the-billing-ui.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-credit-pools-for-cost-centers-in-the-billing-ui.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-credit-pools-for-cost-centers-in-the-billing-ui.jsonld"}}