About the billing cycle

Learn about the billing cycle for the enhanced billing platform.

Who can use this feature?

Outside of GitHub Enterprise Cloud, the enhanced billing platform is only available to:

  • Organization accounts on a GitHub Team plan created after November 13, 2024.
  • Organization accounts on a GitHub Free plan created after February 4, 2025.


It is currently not available to user accounts on any plan.

Beginning in February 2025, GitHub will migrate organizations on GitHub Team to the new billing platform. Organizations will receive notice 30 days before their migration.

Important

If you want to know about billing for your personal user account, this article does not apply to you.

To check if you are on the enhanced billing platform, see How do I know if I can access the enhanced billing platform?.

If your organization uses the enhanced billing platform, you have a fixed billing period for metered usage which runs from the first day of the month to the last day of the month. When the month ends, the usage is scheduled to be billed on your bill cycle day. Your bill cycle day is the day you created your organization. For example, if you created the account on the fifteenth of the month, you will be billed on the fifteenth of each subsequent month.

This applies to all products available through the enhanced billing platform.

If still use the previous billing platform, for more information about the billing cycle for your account, see Changing the duration of your billing cycle.