Budgets and alerts allow you to track spending on metered products for your enterprise, organizations, cost centers (enterprise only), and repositories. Budgets and alerts are not available for pre-paid volume licenses.
By setting a monthly budget, you can monitor your spending and receive notifications by email when your spending exceeds certain preset percentages of your budget threshold. This can help you stay within your budget and avoid overspending.
Many accounts already have default budgets for certain products.
Accounts that have migrated from the old billing platform may contain automatically generated budgets that mirror their previous spending limits.
Stopping usage
For license-based products such as GitHub Copilot, Advanced Security, GitHub Team, and GitHub Enterprise, setting a budget does not prevent usage over the budget amount but does provide alerts.
For metered products such as GitHub Actions or GitHub Copilot premium requests, you can choose for budgets to prevent usage once the budget amount is reached.
Types and scopes
Each budget has a type and a scope that define which paid use contributes to spending against the budget.
- Type: Defines which metered product or SKU is measured.
- Scope: Defines whether the budget applies to the whole account, or to a subset of repositories, organizations, or cost centers (enterprise only).
Your first billing cycle after creating a budget
When you first create a budget, be aware that the budget applies only to metered usage from the date of its creation onwards. Any use made before you created the budget is not included in the calculations. This means that you may exceed your budget in the first billing cycle after you create your budget, even if you select the option stop usage when the limit is reached.
Set up a budget
To get started with budgets, see 예산을 설정하여 요금제 제품에 대한 지출 제어.