About managing your GitHub Copilot Individual subscription
This article applies to setting up and managing a GitHub Copilot subscription for your personal account. If you are an organization administrator and want to set up GitHub Copilot for your organization, see "Managing your GitHub Copilot subscription for your organization."
If you have access to GitHub Copilot through a GitHub Copilot Business seat, you will not be able to make administrative changes.
For more information about billing in general, like adding a payment method or viewing your payment history, see "Managing your GitHub billing settings."
Configuring GitHub Copilot settings on GitHub.com
Before you can start using GitHub Copilot, you will need to set up a free trial or subscription. For more information, see "Managing your GitHub Copilot subscription for your personal account" or "Managing your GitHub Copilot subscription for your organization."
Once you have an active GitHub Copilot trial or subscription, you can adjust GitHub Copilot settings for your personal account on GitHub in the GitHub Copilot settings. The settings apply anywhere that you use GitHub Copilot. You can configure the suggestions that GitHub Copilot offers and how GitHub uses your telemetry data.
Enabling or disabling duplication detection
Note: If you are a member of an organization on GitHub Enterprise Cloud who has been assigned a GitHub Copilot seat through your organization, you will not be able to configure duplication detection in your personal account settings. Your duplication detection setting will be inherited from your organization or enterprise.
Your personal settings for GitHub Copilot include an option to either allow or block code completion suggestions that match publicly available code. If you choose to block suggestions matching public code, GitHub Copilot checks code completion suggestions with their surrounding code of about 150 characters against public code on GitHub. If there is a match, or a near match, the suggestion is not shown to you.
If you choose to allow suggestions matching public code, and you accept a suggestion for which one or more matches were found, you can click through from an entry in the GitHub Copilot log to view a list of references on GitHub. For more information, see "Finding public code that matches GitHub Copilot suggestions."
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In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
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In the left sidebar, click GitHub Copilot.
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Under Suggestions matching public code, select the dropdown menu, then click Allow to allow suggestions matching public code, or Block to block suggestions matching public code.
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To confirm your new settings, click Save.
Enabling or disabling Prompt and Suggestion collection
Note: Copilot Business does not retain any Prompts or Suggestions.
You can choose whether your Prompts and Suggestions are collected and retained by GitHub and further processed and shared with Microsoft and by adjusting your user settings. For more information about data that GitHub Copilot may collect depending on your settings, see "GitHub Terms for Additional Products and Features" and the GitHub Copilot privacy FAQ.
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In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
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In the left sidebar, click GitHub Copilot.
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To allow or prevent GitHub using your data, select or deselect Allow GitHub to use my code snippets for product improvements.
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To confirm your new settings, click Save.
Further reading
Setting up a GitHub Copilot trial or subscription for your personal account
Before you can start using GitHub Copilot Individual, you will need to set up a free trial or subscription.
Note: If you were part of the free GitHub Copilot technical preview that was run between July 2021 and June 2022, you are not eligible for a 30-day trial.
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In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
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In the "Code, planning, and automation" section of the sidebar, click GitHub Copilot.
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On the GitHub Copilot settings page, click Enable GitHub Copilot.
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Choose whether you want to pay monthly or yearly, and click Continue to get access to Copilot.
- If your personal account meets the criteria for a free GitHub Copilot subscription instead of a trial or paid subscription, you will automatically be taken to step 6.
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Follow the steps to confirm your payment details, then click Submit.
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Select your preferences, then click Save and get started.
You can change these preferences at a later time by returning to your GitHub Copilot settings. For more information, see "Configuring GitHub Copilot in your environment."
Modifying your Copilot Individual subscription
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In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
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In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Billing and plans, then click Plans and usage.
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In the "GitHub Copilot" section, select the Edit dropdown on the right.
- If you are on a monthly billing cycle, select Change to yearly billing.
- If you are on a yearly billing cycle, select Change to monthly billing.
Canceling your Copilot Individual subscription
You can cancel your Copilot Individual subscription at any time. The cancellation will take effect at the end of your current billing cycle. You can also cancel your Copilot Individual trial, during the 30-day trial period. For more information, see "Canceling your Copilot Individual trial."
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In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
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In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Billing and plans, then click Plans and usage.
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Under "Add-ons", in the "GitHub Copilot" section, select the Manage subscription dropdown on the right and then click Cancel.
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In the "Cancel GitHub Copilot" modal, click I understand, cancel GitHub Copilot
Canceling your Copilot Individual trial
You can cancel your Copilot Individual trial at any time during your trial period. If you cancel during your 30-day trial, you won't be charged. Your cancellation will take effect at the end of your trial period. If you do not cancel your trial, you will be automatically enrolled in a paid subscription at the end of your trial period, according to the billing preferences you set up when you started your trial.
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In the upper-right corner of any page, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
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In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Billing and plans, then click Plans and usage.
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Under "Add-ons", in the "GitHub Copilot" section, click Cancel trial.