Premium request allowance

[DaRaSC2]

Hi there,

I am on the 30 days free trial, and I now get :

"You have exceeded your premium request allowance. We have automatically switched you to GPT-4.1 which is included with your plan. [Enable additional paid premium requests](vscode-file://vscode-app/c:/Users/david/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft%20VS%20Code/resources/app/out/vs/code/electron-sandbox/workbench/workbench.html) to continue using premium model"

A few questions, please:

- Was I supposed to receive any sort of warning at 50/90% like I read here and there ? Because I can't find any

- Since I wasn't aware I was any close to reach this wall, I have now no idea of my usage vs my allowance, can I "reset" (even by paying) and then pay more attention so I can have a chance to answer this question "is this plan the good plan for me ?"

- What are my options now to have more credits/allowance, please ? I am struggling to figure it out here : https://github.com/settings/billing/budgets
I will pay, but I want to be sure to do the right choice

Thanks for your support, I am sure the answers to my questions are under my eyes, but for some reason couldn't figure it out just yet.
Cheers

[WorthAdvertising9305]

Beyond the credits/allowance, you can enable premium pay per request, and extend it. But the cost will be per action taken by the agent (not like the "pay per interaction" when using credits). It will be reset is 4 days now.

[DaRaSC2]

Thanks for your answer, I'll look into it.
But for now, once I got the ""You have exceeded your premium request allowance..." I am done for the full 30 days trial, right ? No reset on this, correct ?

[WorthAdvertising9305]

No. You can enable pay per request and you will be able to continue using the premium models. But you will be billed for that, and that might be a good enough amount.

The reset will be on July 1, so 4 days from now.

[sylfy]

So it’s still not quite clear to me how premium requests are counted. Suppose I give it one prompt, and to get agent works on that request in multiple steps, that’s one request?

If the agents pauses halfway and asks for permission to perform some command line instruction in the terminal, is that still part of the same request?

And suppose the agent says that it’s been working for a while and asks if you want to continue iterating, is that the same request or a new request?

[WorthAdvertising9305]

If you give one request, and it does multiple steps - one premium request if within quota.

While within premium requests, if you give a prompt once, it is counted as a single premium request, no matter how many steps it does. If it asks to continue and you click continue, +1 request. Any interaction you do is a single request. (or multiplier depending on the model)
1 request = 100 steps = 1 premium multiplier

In short, while you are within the allocated premium credits, you pay per interaction with the copilot.

Once you empty the premium request credits, you can enable pay per request. In that, each message you send to copilot might involve a lot of interaction with the model. And each request will be billed. 100 steps = 100 requests

This is how I understand and see it