Codespaces Included Usage Used Up: Core Hours and Storage Quota
Quick answer
Personal accounts get 120 core hours and 15 GB-month (Free) or 180 hours and 20 GB-month (Pro). When used up without a payment method you cannot create or resume codespaces until the next cycle; you can still export changes to a branch.
Most likely fix: Get back in
How to fix it
Try these in order — the most common fix is first.
1. Get back in
- Add a payment method and review budgets
- Export changes to a branch from the codespace
- Or wait for the quota to reset next billing cycle
Did this fix it?2. Use less next time
- Stop codespaces when idle and lower the idle timeout in personal settings
- Delete finished codespaces and lower the retention period (default 30 days)
- Limit VS Code extensions and keep the default base image
- Delete prebuild configurations for repos you no longer use
- Check usage at github.com/settings/billing
Did this fix it?
Symptoms
You can no longer create or resume codespaces, or new prebuilds are disabled.
Why it happens
- Included compute or storage quota used up
- No payment method or budget set
- Idle codespaces left running (default timeout 30 minutes)
- Storage accrues while a codespace exists, even stopped; deleting does not reduce this month's total
This guide also covers
- codespaces free hours used up
- codespaces quota exceeded
- codespaces spending limit
- codespaces core hours
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