GitHub cost centers gain AI credit pool caps

GitHub added AI cost-governance tooling for finance/FinOps teams, so each group cannot spend beyond the credits its own licenses fund.

Key points

• Copilot licenses come with monthly AI credits pooled across the enterprise; a new AI credit pool cap stops a cost center from drawing more included credits than its assigned Copilot Business/Enterprise licenses fund.
• This keeps chargeback boundaries intact: each group stays within what it paid for.
• The pool differs from a cost center budget: the pool cap governs the included-usage phase, while the budget governs the metered phase and caps charges after the pool is exhausted.
• It currently applies only to the REST API.