Usage reports show detailed information about your account’s GitHub usage, including how much of each SKU was used and the resulting billable amount.
To generate a usage report, see Viewing your usage of metered products and licenses.
Report types
The following report types are available.
- Metered usage page:
- Summarized usage report: A summary of usage for all paid products for a maximum period of one year.
- Detailed usage report: A detailed usage report for all paid products for a maximum period of 31 days.
- Premium request analytics page:
- Premium requests usage report: A detailed per-user breakdown of premium requests consumed for a maximum period of 31 days.
- Legacy premium request usage report: A detailed, user-based report of premium request usage for the last 45 days.
Summarized usage report
This report sums the quantity, gross_amount, discount_amount, and net_amount fields based on the combination of the following values: date, sku, repository, cost_center_name. If the usage report is for an enterprise with organizations, the amounts will be summarized by the organization value as well.
Detailed usage report
The detailed usage report includes the same fields as the summarized report and adds username and workflow_path.
This report sums the quantity, gross_amount, discount_amount, and net_amount fields based on the combination of the following values: date, sku, organization, repository, cost_center_name, username, workflow_path.
Note
Data for the detailed usage report is available only through the GitHub web interface and cannot be obtained via the REST API /usage endpoint. The REST API only provides access to summarized billing information.
Premium requests usage report
This report includes additional detail about premium request usage. The report sums the quantity, gross_amount, discount_amount, and net_amount fields based on the combination of the following values: date, model, username.
This report contains usage beginning October 01, 2025 00:00 UTC.
Legacy premium request usage report
This report includes each recorded use of a premium request and includes the following fields: Timestamp,User,Model,Requests Used,Exceeds Monthly Quota, and Total Monthly Quota. The time period of the report is the most recent 45 days.
This report will be closing down on December 1, 2025, at which point all premium request usage activity will be available via the Premium requests usage report.
Usage report fields
The usage reports contain the following fields.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
date | The day that the usage occurred. All usage is logged in UTC. |
product | The GitHub product that was used. |
sku | The specific GitHub product SKU that was used. |
quantity | The amount of the SKU that was used. |
unit_type | The unit of measurement for the product SKU. |
applied_cost_per_quantity | The unit cost of the product SKU. |
gross_amount | The amount of the product SKU that was used. |
discount_amount | The amount of usage that was discounted. Usage that is discounted as part of your account’s included usage is reflected in this field. Also includes discounts for GitHub Actions usage for standard GitHub-hosted runners in public repositories and for self-hosted runners. |
net_amount | The billable amount of usage after applying the discount_amount. This is the amount that your account will be billed. gross_amount - discount_amount = net_amount |
username | The user associated with the usage, if applicable. Not included in the Summarized usage report. |
organization | The organization associated with the usage, if applicable. |
repository | The repository associated with the usage, if applicable. |
workflow_path | The path of the GitHub Actions workflow that generated the usage, if applicable. Only available in the Detailed usage report |
cost_center_name | The cost center associated with the usage, if applicable. |
model | The model used. This might be an LLM like claude-sonnet-4, or a product-specific model like Code Review model. Only available in the Premium request usage report |
exceeds_quota | Indicates whether the premium request exceeds the user's monthly quota: - FALSE: The request is covered by the monthly quota included in the user's plan.- TRUE: The request exceeds the monthly quota and will be billed Only available in the Premium request usage report |
total_monthly_quota | The number of requests included in the user's current plan. Only available in the Premium request usage report |
Receiving the report
Usage reports are sent via email to the default email address associated with your GitHub account. You can only request one usage report per account at a time.
Metered usage report fields that have closed down
GitHub aims to minimize changes to the usage report structure, however at times the report structure or fields may change.
The following fields have been removed from the usage reports.
| Field | Replacement |
|---|---|
usage_at | Refer to date instead. |
workflow_name | Refer to workflow_path instead. |