Pro+ User "You've reached your weekly rate limit"

[ColdeZhang]

🏷️ Discussion Type

Bug

💬 Feature/Topic Area

Copilot in GitHub

Body

You've reached your weekly rate limit. Please upgrade your plan or wait for your limit to reset on April 20, 2026 at 7:59 AM.

I am a pro+ sub user, why I am still have a so called 'weekly rate limit'?
Where is the meter or indicator show how may weekly usage do I have?
Since there is a weekly rate limit, and what's the point of premium request counts?

This is totaly unacceptable for paied user, at least you should told me the detail information about new rule.
I need a proper explanation for the situation.

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[ColdeZhang]

I have noticed that there have been a lot of post talking about this.
If you have encountered the same issue, help thumb up for these post and advocate them!

[ColdeZhang]

I discovered something humorous:

Even after being flagged for a rate limit, I could still send a request, and the task would perform some steps before indicating that the rate limit had been reached.

Theoretically, this should be considered a failed request and therefore shouldn't count as a premium request. But it still counted as a premium request!

[wzh5550123]

To the GitHub Copilot Team,

I am writing to express my strong dissatisfaction with your recent restrictions. Are you suggesting that a legitimate individual user running Copilot via remote control between remote and local environments is somehow "violating" your terms?

This is an incredibly overbearing and unreasonable policy. As a paying subscriber, I expect the service to be available across my development environments, whether I am working locally or accessing my setup remotely. Restricting usage based on the method of access—especially when the intent is legitimate personal development—is a blatant disregard for user experience and a breach of the trust we place in a professional tool.

Your current approach feels less like "managing service quality" and more like a forced restriction of a service I have already paid for. I demand a clear explanation for these "intelligence throttling" and access-limiting behaviors.

[toinemini]

I am also rate limited for 3 days :D

FYI, I am on Pro+ and have only hit 14.0% usage FOR THE MONTH so far. Completely unbelieveable! I am not a heavy user at all.

[ColdeZhang]

Seems like you will waste a lot of premium request this month, If they still have such policy.

[abbish]

I think this is a billing bug in GitHub Copilot. The exported report clearly shows models that consumed requests, but their quantities are all zero, and I never actually used these models.

[4sthea]

Yupp, same here, looks like a major issue at GitHub rn, the billing is completely messed up and I'm also having a 3 day complete lockout from using Copilot due to apparently hitting my weekly rate limit...

[MagicalBuilder]

Yh, it's really frustrating

[toinemini]

Where did you get this data? Local?