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About usage-based billing for licenses

Learn about usage-based billing for your licenses with the enhanced billing platform, whether you pay through GitHub or Azure.

Who can use this feature?

Enterprise administrators

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.

With the enhanced billing platform, you pay monthly for the number of GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Advanced Security licenses you use. You will not need to buy a predefined number of licenses in advance.

If a user starts consuming a license seat during the month, you will pay pro rata for the user's license usage that month. If a user stops consuming a license seat during the month, your bill for the following month will reflect the change.

Pending invitations to join an organization that belongs to your enterprise on GitHub do not consume a license.

Visual Studio subscriptions with GitHub Enterprise is currently not supported for usage-based billing.

Which payment methods can I use?

You can use the following payment methods for usage-based billing for licenses:

  • Invoiced and self-serve GitHub Enterprise customers can pay using a credit card or PayPal
  • Invoiced customers can also pay using prepaid credits (only available to customers who have a volume subscription with or without metered add-ons)
  • You can connect an Azure subscription to your enterprise account
  • For purchase orders, you can contact your account manager in GitHub's Sales team