Cannot see/edit AI credits budget with user scope

[AlvaroByst]

🏷️ Discussion Type

Bug

💬 Feature/Topic Area

Copilot in GitHub

Body

I've created an AI credits budget for a user, a new feature introduced today with the new billing system.
I've created it with $0, and now the user cannot use Copilot anymore. Ok, it seems that works.
BUT, I cannot see the budget anywhere, so I cannot edit the budget nor delete it, and the user is not able to use Copilot anymore.
Please make these user-scoped budgets visible from the organization.

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[GitHubRobotic]

I can't figure out why my year long pro proscription stopped filling the bucket between may and june. Why didn't my budget replenish?

[pixelrob]

I have the exact same problem and just raised a support ticket for it. We use Github Teams with Copilot Business. I've been pouring over various documentations but nothing explains how we can see or amend user-scoped budgets. The support bot suggested the following but I don't have these option available under Billing & Licensing:

How to view or change a user‑level budget

1. Go to your organization or enterprise settings on GitHub.com.
2. Open Billing & Licensing, then navigate to Copilot billing.
3. In the usage‑based billing / budgets section, manage user‑level budgets:
4. Edit the universal user‑level budget that applies to all Copilot‑licensed users, or
5. Set or update an individual user‑level budget that overrides the universal default.

[SAADALAHSAN]

go to seeting there you can see the toggle on the models obshon

[nicksamps]

Similar issue for me. I've set a flat per user rate across my organisation but after setting the budget I can't see it listed anywhere in the budgets section. If I then try to recreate the budget, I get an error saying that there is already a budget for that scope. This must be bug, really need it solving ASAP!

[nstrating]

Same issue here. I did save the url so I still have access to it, but its not visible in the list of budgets.

[dottodot]

Same here, set user budgets and now have no way to edit them, was this tested before it was released?

[dottodot]

Just realised they are listed via the rest api so you can you the gh cli to retrieve the ids, then you just just edit one of the visible budgets and change the id

# GitHub CLI api
# https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_api

gh api \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10" \
  /organizations/ORG/settings/billing/budgets

[JulienC75]

Great, it is future proof, when agents will manage budgets ! ;-)
In the mean time, is it possible to have it working in the human user interface ?

[AlvaroByst]

It works! Thank you! I've just deleted it using this

gh api \
  --method DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10" \
  /organizations/ORG/settings/billing/budgets/BUDGET_ID

Anyway, this must be fixed in the UI

[acova-amaan]

Quick convenience bash script. Feel free to edit as necessary :)

(apologies for any typos, my bash foo is not strong)

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -euo pipefail

ORG="<enter org name here>"

# Login only if no existing authentication is available.
if ! gh auth status >/dev/null 2>&1; then
	echo "No GitHub auth found. Starting login..."
	gh auth login
fi

# Find budget IDs
api_response="$(gh api \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10" \
	"/organizations/$ORG/settings/billing/budgets")"

printf '%s\n' "$api_response" \
	| jq -r '
			(["Budget id", "Name", "Budget type", "Product SKU", "Budget amount", "Scope", "Stop usage"] | @tsv),
			(
				(if type == "array" then . else (.budgets // []) end)[]
				| [
						(.id // "-"),
						(.budget_entity_name // "-"),
						(.budget_type // "-"),
						(.budget_product_sku// "-"),
						(.budget_amount // "-"),						
						(.budget_scope // "-"),
						(.prevent_further_usage // "-")
					]
				| @tsv
			)
		' \
	| column -t -s $'\t'

mapfile -t ids < <(
	printf '%s\n' "$api_response" \
		| jq -r '
				(if type == "array" then . else (.budgets // []) end)[]
				| (.id // empty)
			'
)

if [[ ${#ids[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
	echo "No budget IDs found in API response."
	exit 1
fi

printf "\nSelect a budget ID to delete:"
printf "\n[CAUTION: This action is irreversible]\n\n"


select id in "${ids[@]}"; do
	if [[ -n "${id:-}" ]]; then
		echo "Selected: $id"
		break
	fi
	echo "Invalid selection. Choose a valid option."
done

# Delete the selected budget
gh api \
  --method DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10" \
	"/organizations/$ORG/settings/billing/budgets/$id"

DockerFile:

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:ubuntu

RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends bsdextrautils gh jq \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

DevContainer:

{
    "name": "GitHub CLI Dev Container",
    "build": {
        "dockerfile": "Dockerfile"
    },
    "customizations": {
        "vscode": {
            "extensions": [
                "GitHub.vscode-github-actions",
                "GitHub.copilot",
                "GitHub.copilot-chat"
            ]
        }
    },
    "remoteUser": "root",
    "postCreateCommand": "gh --version && gh auth status || true"
}

[berglh]

My theory currently is that any organisation that has GitHub Copilot enabled by default for all organisation members is filtering out the budget in the API response. I have tried deleting our org level budget for Copilot and recreating it, but there is no change to budget overview page.

One thing I noticed in Chrome debugger is that the budget page calls a REST API to retrieve the budgets. Observing the budgets in the output, I can see that the multi-user budgets are not visible. The REST API URL that is hit by the page is as follows:

https://github.com/organizations/{your_org}/settings/billing/budgets?page=1&page_size=10&scope=customer

As you can see, there is a scope set to customer in my case. If I copy that request as Curl, then remove the scope parameter from the REST API request, I see the universal user budget I configured via the UI:

      {
        "targetType": "MultiUserCustomer",
        "targetAmount": 45.0,
        "licenseCount": 0,
        "currentLicenseCount": 0,
        "budgetLimitType": "PreventFurtherUsage",
        "currentAmount": 0.0,
        "targetName": "My Org xD",
        "alertEnabled": true,
        "alertRecipientUserIds": [
          "12334567"
        ],
        "alertRecipientUserLogins": [
          "me"
        ],
        "targetId": "12334567",
        "pricingTargetId": "premium_requests",
        "pricingTargetType": "BundlePricing",
        "uuid": "randomstuff",
        "excludeCostCenterUsage": false,
        "budgetThresholdsSummary": {
          "100": 0,
          "0": 9,
          "75": 0,
          "90": 0
        }
      },

If you look at the API response, it is not the same as the actual GitHub API solutions we see where we are able to edit the budgets correctly. My guess is there is an additional API wrapper for the GitHub.com website of the core GitHub API, and that it's filtering out the user budgets because of the scope=customer parameter. It's possible that the REST API endpoint isn't matching the new budget targetTypes when set to a scope of customer, either accidentally through bad logic or on purpose. GitHub could be rolling out website changes that they only display to a subset of users ~10% to avoid impacting everyone with a new website version all at once.

Important

Update If you copy the uuid from multi-user budget from the REST API with the &scope=customer removed using curl, or retrieving your budgets via the GitHub core REST API, then you paste it into the edit budget page URL in your browser, you can indeed edit the budget:

https://github.com/organizations/{your_org}/settings/billing/budgets/{uuid}/edit

Even if the data was returned correctly, it's not clear to me that the budgets would appear in the page correctly without trawling through the JS, however, when I first go to load the budget page in the org I see the following, indicating the page has support for multiple budget types:

[workec]

Same problem.

[mKistnerDecadis]

Same problem!

[mfrank-decadis]

Same issue!

[dgauthiercomact]

Why creating UI when you have Rest API

[luxit-github]

Same issue cannot edit budgets after creating

[amutel-datagalaxy]

I have a similar issue. You can see on the budget page that there is a Budgets section that appears below the "organization budgets" (at around 2s), but it disappears almost immediately. I believe that's where we are supposed to edit per user budget, but for now this is not accessible.

I have raised also a support ticket for this issue. If this does not get resolved, I will have to go through the REST API.

github-copilot-budgets.mp4

[berglh]

@amutel-datagalaxy Do you happen to have https://github.com/organizations/{your_org}/settings/copilot/seat_management set to Enabled: for all members of the organization ? We have this set in our org, so I'm wondering if this flag in the org is blocking the multi-user budget types from appearing in the UI.

[akashisama]

@amutel-datagalaxy Do you happen to have https://github.com/organizations/{your_org}/settings/copilot/seat_management set to Enabled: for all members of the organization ? We have this set in our org, so I'm wondering if this flag in the org is blocking the multi-user budget types from appearing in the UI.

We've got this disabled and are still not able to see the individual user budgets.

[berglh]

That's good to know, then it seems likely this is bad REST API logic in the budget overview page.

We've got this disabled and are still not able to see the individual user budgets.

[sailro]

cc @martinwoodward this is quite a problematic issue with the usage-based billing, can you help prioritize ? Thanks !

[ewaszoeke]

same problem. Pls fix

[vitormhenrique]

This is insane, rolling up a "feature" like this and not having a way to view / edit the budgets set by users.

[rokaye]

First, a global budget can be set for all the employees in the organization. Once it is set, a new management page will be available, allowing you to edit the budget for each employee.

[tg-solidat]

I set a global budget (by not selecting a user in the budget creation). After submitting that, I was on a different page I can not find otherwise anymore. Should have taken a screen shot.

But I can't see the new management page you mention. How to access that?

[cwjoalder]

Yes, please share the URL if you still have it so we might be able to recreate it for our own budgets

Edit: URL to edit the budget is https://github.com/organizations/<org>/settings/billing/budgets/<budget-uuid>/edit
You can get the ID with the gh CLI as above. But the URL for this management page would still be great.

[paulox]

Same problem here

[EcoPhDG]

Same problem here, the service I pay for becomes unusable because of this

[martin-slama]

Same problem here. Please fix it.

[epsmae]

Same for us, sadly I set one user budget to 20$...... It hold for 1.5 hours 🙈
But now it is cheap, as I can not increase the budget for him 😀

[willytanner]

Same problem here. Please fix it.

[sergegandolphe]

Same issue here. It's quite critical, i mistakenly set it to 0$ and no one can use Copilot in the organization. No way to modify the budget ...

[svasseur]

same problem

[hawkeyevc]

same problem

[svdtop]

We have got the same problem.

[amutel-datagalaxy]

Note for all folks that are impacted as it was highlighted earlier in a comment, you can access the user budgets through API with e.g. gh CLI command.

For example, get all the user budgets defined (replace $(YOUR_ORG) with your organization name):

> gh api -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10" "/organizations/$(YOUR_ORG)/settings/billing/budgets"

You will find budgets ids in the JSON response.

Then you can reuse to e.g. delete a particular user budgets (replace $(BUDGET_ID) with the actual budget id):

> gh api -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10" "/organizations/$(YOUR_ORG)/settings/billing/budgets/$(BUDGET_ID)" -X DELETE

And then use the Web frontend to re-enter a particular budget for a particular user.

It is a bit laborious but in case you have entered something incorrect, you can at least unblock your teams.

[hawkeyevc]

Thanks for that, but they charge a bunch of money for their service. THEY have to fix such a stupid and lazy looking bug asap.

[cbandstra-wespath]

You can also use these instructions to find the BUDGET_ID for the multi_user_customer scope and then user this URL to view and edit it. This was the original page that it takes you to after creating the multi user budget (when you don't select a particular user).

https://github.com/organizations/$(YOUR_ORG)/settings/billing/multi_user_budget/$(BUDGET_ID)

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[svdtop]

Looks like it's fixed, I can see all user scoped budgets in the "budgets and alerts" interface :)

[pixelrob]

I received an email today and github updated the budgets & alerts UI to make user-scope budgets visible. From my perspective the issue is resolved.

[senritsu]

Budgets are now visible, but editing individual users' budget (in a created universal budget for all users) doesn't seem to work, at least there is no way to save any changes (button "Create Budget" is disabled, no error or any communication why) after selecting "Edit" for users.

[senritsu]

Update for anyone with the same issue: If you create an additional individual user override budget for a specific user, only then can the user be edited properly (from both the individual as well as from the universal budget page).

[PierreRaybaut]

@senritsu : how do you create this individual user budget if the "Create Budget" button is disabled as you mentioned in your previous comment? (I have the same issue and would appreciate a little help 🙏)
→ Never mind (see below)

Update, a few minutes later
OK, so the complete explanation: you can't create the individual budget from the "Details" view of the "Universal" budget, even though the UI suggest that you can do it. As you pointed out, you can edit it from the "Universal" budget view only if you have created it first, and it has to be done from the main Budget management page.

(I guess that the whole UI/UX/coding of these budget features have been done with too much vibe coding.)

[senritsu]

Yeah exactly, you have to create a "New" budget from the overview first (despite the name it's not really a new one, it's an override if you select a user), and I do agree that it reeks of half-baked vibe coding, quite a lot.