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Mert Özen's blog posts on software development, backend, frontend, and DevOps.
Getting Started with GitHub Copilot: Plans, AI Credits, Surfaces (VS 2026, VS Code, Rider, GitHub.com, CLI) and Model Choice
In Copilot, agent sessions spend your credits, not inline suggestions: since 1 June 2026 billing uses token-based GitHub AI Credits, and a thirty-step session costs between 4 and 128 credits depending on the model. Plans, base and flex credits, auto and Copilot Fusion, setting up Visual Studio 2026, VS Code, GitHub.com and the CLI, and organization policies.
Copilot in Teams and Organizations: Policies, Content Exclusion, Model Access, Usage Metrics, Cost and a Comparison with Claude Code/Codex
In an organization, Copilot's cost is driven mostly by the model choice and code review on every push: for an eight-person Business team, Sonnet sessions plus a Balanced review on every push use up the shared pool in a ninth of the month, with two thirds of the credits going to review. Policy layers, content exclusion, managed settings and the MCP allowlist, metrics, the audit log, budgets and a comparison with Claude Code and Codex.