About billing for GitHub Advanced Security

Learn how GitHub Advanced Security costs are calculated and how to get the most from your license.

Who can use this feature?

GitHub Advanced Security is available for enterprise accounts on GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Enterprise Server. Some features of GitHub Advanced Security are also available for public repositories on GitHub. For more information, see GitHub’s plans.

For information about GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps, see Configure GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps in Microsoft Learn.

About licenses for GitHub Advanced Security

Note that GitHub may apply a temporary authorization hold for the value of the usage-based costs in advance, which will appear as a pending charge in your account's payment method.

If you want to use GitHub Advanced Security features on any repository apart from a public repository on GitHub, you will need a license for GitHub Advanced Security features, available with GitHub Enterprise Cloud or GitHub Enterprise Server. For information about how you can try GitHub Enterprise with GitHub Advanced Security for free, see Setting up a trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud and Setting up a trial of GitHub Advanced Security in the GitHub Enterprise Cloud documentation.

Note

If you change the visibility of a public repository to private then GitHub Advanced Security will be disabled for that repository.

For pricing details for GitHub Advanced Security, see our pricing information.

Tip

From April 1, 2025, you will be able to enable usage-based billing or buy licenses for selected features of GitHub Advanced Security. The new products, GitHub Secret Protection and GitHub Code Security, will be available to users with GitHub Team and GitHub Enterprise. For full details, see Evolving GitHub Advanced Security in Executive Insights.