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Removing organizations from your enterprise

Learn how to remove an organization that should no longer be a part of your enterprise.

Who can use this feature?

Enterprise owners can remove any organization from their enterprise.

About organization removal

You can remove an organization that is owned by your enterprise account, so the organization stands alone.

Warning: When you remove an organization from your enterprise:

  • Billing, identity management, 2FA requirements, and other policies for the organization will no longer be governed by your enterprise.
  • The organization will be downgraded to the free plan.
  • The organization will be governed by our standard Terms of Service.
  • Any internal repositories within the organization will be converted to private repositories.

Removing an organization from your enterprise

  1. In the top-right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo.

  2. Depending on your environment, click Your enterprise, or click Your enterprises then click the enterprise you want to view.

  3. In the left sidebar, click Organizations.

  4. In the search bar, begin typing the organization's name until the organization appears in the search results.

  5. To the right of the organization's name, select the dropdown menu and click Remove organization.

    Screenshot of a list of organizations in search results. To the right of the organization name, the dropdown menu labeled with a gear icon is expanded, and the "Remove organization" option is highlighted with an orange outline.

  6. Review the warnings, then click Remove organization.

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