About billing for your enterprise
When you use an enterprise account on GitHub, the enterprise account is the central point for all billing within your enterprise, including the organizations that your enterprise owns.
If you use GitHub Enterprise Cloud with an individual organization and do not yet have an enterprise account, you create an enterprise account and add your organization. For more information, see "Creating an enterprise account."
If you created a trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud on or after August 1, 2024, you use usage-based billing to pay for your licenses. With usage-based billing, you pay for the number of licenses you use each month. You do not need to buy a predefined number of licenses in advance. See, "About usage-based billing for licenses."
Important
If you currently pay for your GitHub Enterprise licenses through a volume, subscription, or prepaid agreement, you will continue to be billed in this way until your agreement expires. At renewal, you have the option to switch to the metered billing model. See "Getting started with the new billing platform."
For GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers with an enterprise account, GitHub bills through your enterprise account on GitHub.com. For invoiced customers, each invoice includes a single bill charge for all of your paid GitHub.com services and any GitHub Enterprise Server instances. For more information about usage and invoices, see the following.
- "Viewing the subscription and usage for your enterprise account"
- "Managing invoices for your enterprise"
Administrators for your enterprise account on GitHub.com can access and manage billing for the enterprise. For more information, see "Roles in an enterprise."
You can connect an Azure Subscription ID to your enterprise account to enable and pay for any usage-based billing for GitHub. For example, GitHub Codespaces usage, and for GitHub Actions or GitHub Packages usage, beyond the amounts included with your account. See "Connecting an Azure subscription."
How do I know which billing platform I'm using?
You have access to the new billing platform if you have an enterprise account, or if you are part of an organization owned by an enterprise account, created after June 2, 2024. Enterprises that participated in the private preview also have access to the new billing platform. See "About the new billing platform."
The enhanced billing platform is available to:
- All enterprise accounts, and their organizations, created after June 2, 2024
- Enterprises that participated in the public preview program
Beginning in September 2024, GitHub will migrate remaining enterprises to the new billing platform. Enterprises will receive a notice 30 days before their migration. See the GitHub blog.
To check if you have access:
- In the top-right corner of GitHub, click your profile photo.
- Depending on your environment, click Your enterprise, or click Your enterprises then click the enterprise you want to view.
If you have access, there will be a Billing & Licensing option in the enterprise account sidebar.