AgentWach vs GitHub's native Copilot usage tracking
GitHub shows you Copilot usage. AgentWach stops you from blowing the budget.
GitHub's built-in Copilot usage tracking gives you a monthly summary per seat. AgentWach gives you real-time per-user and per-repo credit tracking, alert routing, and budget caps — alongside your other AI agent spend.
Where GitHub's native Copilot usage tracking shines
- Native to GitHub — no extra setup for basic seat-level usage.
- Shows monthly premium-request totals per organization.
- Free, included with Copilot Business / Enterprise.
- Sufficient if you only care about month-end accounting.
Where AgentWach wins
- Real-time premium-request credit burn per user, repo, and team.
- Alert when a developer or repo crosses a soft / hard threshold.
- One dashboard for Copilot + OpenAI + Anthropic + Gemini spend.
- Forecasts overage based on current week's burn rate.
- Webhook + Slack alerts so finance hears before the invoice does.
Feature comparison
| Feature | AgentWach | GitHub's native Copilot usage tracking |
|---|---|---|
| Real-time token & cost tracking | Yes | Monthly summary |
| Cross-provider rollup (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Copilot) | Yes | No |
| GitHub Copilot premium-request credit tracking | Yes | Built-in monthly view |
| Hard budget caps that stop agents mid-run Returns stop=true on the next ingest call. | Yes | No |
| Tool-call loop detection | Yes | No |
| Prompt-injection scanner (heuristic, 20+ rules) | Yes | No |
| Slack / Discord / PagerDuty / SMS alerts | Yes | No |
| Tracing & evaluation tooling | Replay + diagnose | No |
| Browser extension (ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini capture) | Yes | No |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
The bottom line
GitHub's native dashboard is fine for accountants doing month-end reconciliation. AgentWach is for the team that wants to catch a Copilot credit blowout on Tuesday afternoon, not in the next invoice.