GitHub Copilot Premium Requests & Agent Mode: What Developers Need to Know

GitHub Copilot Gets Smarter—and More Structured

In a major update, GitHub Copilot has introduced premium requests—a new way to manage resource-heavy AI features—and made Agent Mode generally available to all VS Code users. 

While unlimited GPT-4o access remains free, requests that use advanced AI models like Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2 Flash, or GPT-4.5 are now considered premium.

What Are Premium Requests in GitHub Copilot?

If you’re doing more than just line-by-line code suggestions—like multi-file edits, agentic coding, or using non-default AI models—GitHub will now count those as premium.

As of May 2025, Copilot Pro users get 300 premium requests/month, while Pro+ users get 1,500 at $39.99/month.

Agent Mode Now Available for All VS Code Users

Think of Agent Mode as Copilot on steroids. It doesn’t just autocomplete—it reads your whole codebase, understands context, finds the right files, and even edits across multiple files intelligently.

Whether you’re cleaning up legacy code or building new logic, Agent Mode makes AI feel like a true developer assistant, not just a code predictor.

Access to Advanced AI Models: Your Options Expanded

With this rollout, GitHub lets you choose between models like OpenAI GPT-4.5, Claude 3.5/3.7, and Gemini Flash 2.0, all of which can power your coding tasks—if you’re using premium requests.

Final Word

GitHub is clearly shifting gears—offering deeper functionality while ensuring that power users fund the compute. The core remains free, but serious devs now have real choices. As Agent Mode grows, Copilot is shaping up to be more than a helper—it's evolving into an AI coding teammate.