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Estimating spending

Use the enhanced billing platform to understand where your spending is trending based on the usage across products.

Who can use this feature?

Organization owners and billing managers

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.

The enhanced billing platform provides a high-level view of your spending trends based on the usage across products. You can use this information to estimate your spending and make informed decisions about your budget.

Viewing your spending

The "Overview" page provides a high-level view of your spending and budgets.

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations.
  2. Next to the organization, click Settings.
  3. On the left side of the page, in the organization sidebar, click Billing & Licensing.

On this page, you can view your usage in the following categories:

  • Current metered usage: The card on the top left shows the gross metered usage for your organization.

  • Metered usage: The graph shows the gross metered usage for your organization.

    To view a different time period, select Time Frame, then choose a time period. You can also download an image or CSV of the graph by clicking on the right.

  • By repository: The card under the graph shows the top five repositories that generate the most usage. You can click in the upper-right corner of each card to view all usage, including a break down by gross usage verse billable usage (minus any discounts that may apply).

  • By products: You can use the product tabs to view usage and discounts for different products.

    Screenshot of the product tabs section of the overview page.

Tracking budgets

At the bottom of the page, under "Budgets", you can see your current budgets, and how much you have spent against those budgets. If your role provides access, you can edit or delete a budget by clicking to the right of a budget. See Roles for the new billing platform.

If you have used all of your budget, a red banner appears at the top of the page. You can click Update your budget to increase your budget.