Setting up a trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud

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About GitHub Enterprise Cloud

GitHub Enterprise Cloud is designed for large businesses or teams who collaborate on GitHub.com. For more information, see "About GitHub Enterprise Cloud."

You can set up a trial to evaluate the additional features that come with GitHub Enterprise Cloud, such as SAML single sign-on (SSO), internal repositories, audit log streaming, and included GitHub Actions minutes. For a detailed list of the features available with GitHub Enterprise Cloud, see our Pricing page.

Trials are also available for GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see "Setting up a trial of GitHub Enterprise Server."

If you're not sure whether GitHub Enterprise Cloud, GitHub Enterprise Server, or both are best for your organization, contact GitHub's Sales team. If your organization has 11 or fewer developers, consider GitHub Team; organizations with 12 or more developers typically benefit the most from GitHub Enterprise. For more information, see "GitHub’s products."

About trials of GitHub Enterprise Cloud

You can set up a 30-day trial to evaluate GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Your trial includes an enterprise account, which allows you to manage multiple organizations. For more information, see "Types of GitHub accounts."

During the trial, you can add any number of new and existing organizations to your enterprise. For existing organizations, billing is paused during the trial and any coupons are removed. To reapply a coupon, contact GitHub's Sales team. Organizations created during the trial cannot be removed from the enterprise account until after you purchase GitHub Enterprise.

Your trial also includes 50 seats. If you need more seats to evaluate GitHub Enterprise Cloud, contact GitHub's Sales team. At the end of the trial, you can choose a different number of seats, up to 1,000.

You do not need to provide a payment method during the trial.

If you configure SAML SSO, members of your organization will continue to sign into their personal accounts on GitHub.com. When a member accesses most resources within your organization, GitHub redirects the member to your IdP to authenticate. After successful authentication, your IdP redirects the member back to GitHub. For more information, see "About authentication with SAML single sign-on."

Enterprise Managed Users is not part of the free trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud. If you're interested in Enterprise Managed Users, please contact GitHub's Sales team.

You cannot add an Azure subscription to an enterprise account that is part of a GitHub Enterprise Cloud free trial.

Features not included in the trial

The following features are not included in the trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud:

• GitHub Advanced Security
• GitHub Codespaces
• GitHub Copilot for Business
• GitHub Sponsors
• GitHub Marketplace apps
• GitHub Connect
• For GitHub Actions, increased minutes and job concurrency
• If you set up your own trial, access to GitHub Enterprise Server is not included. If you would like to use GitHub Enterprise Server, contact GitHub's Sales team.

Setting up your trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud

Before you can try GitHub Enterprise Cloud, you must be signed into a personal account. If you don't already have a personal account on GitHub.com, you must create one. For more information, see "Signing up for a new GitHub account."

1. Navigate to Set up your Enterprise trial.

2. Follow the prompts to configure your trial.

Exploring GitHub Enterprise Cloud

After you set up your trial, you can explore GitHub Enterprise Cloud by following the suggested tasks on the "Getting started" tab of your enterprise account.

You can read documentation that reflects the features available to you on GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see "About versions of GitHub Docs."

To learn how your enterprise can use GitHub Enterprise Server most effectively, see "Best practices for enterprises."

For information on planned features and products, see the GitHub public roadmap.

Finishing your trial

You can finish your trial at any time by purchasing GitHub Enterprise or canceling the trial. If you don't purchase GitHub Enterprise or cancel your trial by the end of the 30 days, your trial will expire.

Purchasing GitHub Enterprise ends your trial, removing the 50-seat maximum and initiating payment.

If you cancel your trial or your trial expires, any existing organizations that you added to the enterprise account during the trial will be removed and reverted to their previous plans and settings. For more information about the effects of downgrading an organization, see "Downgrading your GitHub subscription."

If you cancel your trial, all enterprise owners and members also lose access to the enterprise account and any organizations that were created during the trial. If your trial expires, everyone retains access to the enterprise account and organizations created during the trial in a downgraded state, giving you a chance to either upgrade to GitHub Enterprise or move your assets elsewhere.

1. In the top-right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, click your profile photo, then click Enterprise settings.

   

2. In the enterprise account sidebar, click Settings.

3. Under Settings, click Billing.

4. At the top of the page, click Buy Enterprise or Cancel trial.

5. Follow the prompts.