Revoking access to Copilot for members of your organization

Remove access to GitHub Copilot for some or all of the members of your organization.

Who can use this feature?

Organization owners for organizations with a subscription to Copilot Business.

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How revoking access affects billing

Revoking access takes effect from the start of the next billing cycle. If you remove a seat during a cycle, the user will have access to Copilot for the remainder of the billing cycle. For more information, see "About billing for GitHub Copilot."

Revoking access to GitHub Copilot for your whole organization

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations.
  2. Next to the organization, click Settings.
  3. In the "Code planning, and automation" section of the sidebar, click Copilot, and then click Access.
  4. Under "Copilot Business is active in your organization," to revoke GitHub Copilot access for all users in your organization, select Disabled.
  5. In the "Remove Copilot access" dialog, click Confirm and remove seats.

Revoking access to GitHub Copilot for specific users in your organization

Removing a user from the organization(s) that had granted them GitHub Copilot access will automatically revoke their GitHub Copilot access. Alternatively, you can revoke GitHub Copilot access while preserving their organization membership.

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations.

  2. Next to the organization, click Settings.

  3. In the "Code, planning, and automation" section of the sidebar, click Copilot, and then click Access.

  4. Under "Copilot Business is active in your organization," select Enabled For: selected members.

    • In the "Confirm policy update" dialog, click Renew seats.

  5. Under "Access management," in the search bar, type the member's username or full name.

  6. To remove the member from the list of users who have access to GitHub Copilot, select the checkbox to the left of their username, then click Cancel seat.

    Screenshot of the Access management section, with a user selected and the 'Cancel seat' button highlighted.

  7. In the "Confirm seat removal" dialog, click Remove seats.

Using the API to revoke access to GitHub Copilot

You can use GitHub's REST API to revoke access to GitHub Copilot for teams, or specific users, in your organization. For example, you might want to write a script to automatically revoke seats for organization members who have not been using Copilot. See "Remove teams from the Copilot subscription for an organization" and "Remove users from the Copilot subscription for an organization."

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