Managing licenses and plans for your account

Learn how to add licensed seats to your personal or organization account using the enhanced billing platform.

Who can use this feature?

Organization owners, billing managers, and personal account users

In this article

If you have access to the new billing platform with an organization on a GitHub Team plan, or a personal account on a GitHub Free or GitHub Pro plan, you can add seats to your account or update your plan through the "Licensing" page. To check if you have access, see About the new billing platform

Upgrading your personal account's plan

You can upgrade your personal account from GitHub Free to GitHub Pro to get advanced code review tools on private repositories owned by your personal account.

Upgrading your personal account does not affect any organizations you may manage or repositories owned by those organizations. For more information, see GitHub’s plans.

  1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile photo, then click Settings.
  2. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Billing & Licensing.
  3. Click Licensing.
  4. Next to "Current plan", click Upgrade.
  5. Under "Pro" on the "Compare plans" page, click Upgrade to Pro.
  6. Under "Upgrade summary", choose whether you want to pay monthly or yearly.
  7. Optionally, to see your plan's details, click Show details.
  8. Under "Billing information", complete the form, then click Save.
  9. Under "Payment method", choose to pay with a credit card or PayPal.
  10. Complete the payment information form, then click Submit.
  11. Review the information about the charge and your billing date, then click Upgrade my account or Upgrade my organization's account.

Adding licenses to an 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. On the left side of the page, in the organization sidebar, click Billing & Licensing.
  4. Click Licensing.
  5. In the GitHub Team banner, click Edit and select Add seats to display the "Billing / Add seats" view.
  6. Define the number of new seats you require. The details of the prorated cost for the remainder of the billing cycle and the total for your next bill are updated automatically.
  7. When you have defined the number of additional seats to add, click Add seats.

You can also use the Edit option to remove seats and see which users are using seats in your account.