GitHub Copilot cloud sandboxes
- Free allowance
- A metered quota on the Copilot plan, with compute at $0.000024 a second, memory at $0.000003 a GiB-second and snapshot storage at $0.005 a GiB-month once it is exhausted; an account with no payment method is blocked at the quota
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- request-ratecompute at $0.000024 a second and memory at $0.000003 a GiB-second once the included quota is spent
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | a metered quota on the Copilot plan, with compute at $0.000024 a second, memory at $0.000003 a GiB-second and snapshot storage at $0.005 a GiB-month once it is exhausted; an account with no payment method is blocked at the quota unit seconds; metered on wall-clock |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
not stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not stated |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | unknown |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Evidence note | documented the billing concept page was read on 2026-10-22 and states all three meters and the blocked-at-quota rule. The quota's size is in the plan, not on this page, so the record gives the meters and says where the size lives |
Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/cloud-an | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/cloud-an | 'Compute: time that a cloud sandbox session is running, $0.000024 per compute second', 'Memory: $0.000003 per GiB second', 'Storage: snapshot storage for stopped sessions, $0.005 per GiB month', and 'If your account does not have a valid payment method on file, usage is blocked once you use up your quota', quoted |
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