Check How the Balanced Default Applies When You Request Copilot Code Review by API

Which plans get API support?

The GitHub changelog post lists Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise. From internal scripts or work tools you can start a review and set the effort level per request. The API permission to request a review and the permission to merge into a repository are separate, so look at them separately.

How do I choose between Lite and Balanced?

The official configuration documentation describes them as follows.

The documentation was checked on 2026-10-10. It says Balanced uses more AI credits and may add a little GitHub Actions time. The announcement has no figures that guarantee review quality or turnaround for every change. Read it only as a rough guide: repositories with frequent complex logic or security-related changes are candidates for Balanced, and repositories with many light changes are candidates for Lite.

Where do I check team and personal settings?

Code review settings exist at the enterprise, organization, repository, and personal levels, and the changelog post explains that each level can override the one above it. Before you automate requests from a work tool, first check which setting applies. Writing down both the API request option and the admin screen default makes it easier to compare unexpected credit use.

What do I decide when using automatic review and API requests together?

Enabling automatic review and the effort level are independent settings. Even if you turn off automatic review, the effort level stays and applies to manual requests. So decide at which point you want to request a review, whether on PR creation, a new commit, or completion of a particular check, and verify the run conditions so unnecessary requests are not repeated for the same change. Also keep the procedure for judging whether findings are resolved after you receive the results in your existing development flow.