The bill for each account on GitHub consists of the account's plan, plus other any other subscriptions and usage-based billing for the account. For organizations and enterprises, the "plan" component of the bill is based on the number of licensed seats you use.
Organizations on GitHub Team
GitHub bills for the following people:
- Organization members, including owners
- Outside collaborators on private repositories owned by your organization, excluding forks
- GitHub counts each outside collaborator once, even if the user account has access to multiple repositories in your organization.
- Anyone with a pending invitation to become an outside collaborator on private repositories owned by your organization, excluding forks
- Inviting an outside collaborator to a repository using their email address temporarily uses an available seat, even if they already have access to other repositories. After they accept the invite, the seat will be freed up again. Inviting them using their username does not temporarily use a seat.
- Dormant users
People who don't consume a license
- Billing managers
- Anyone with a pending invitation to become a billing manager
- Anyone with a pending invitation to become an outside collaborator on a public repository owned by your organization
Organizations on GitHub Enterprise Cloud
GitHub bills for each of the following accounts on GitHub Enterprise Cloud:
- Enterprise owners who are a member or owner of at least one organization in the enterprise
- Organization members, including owners
- Outside collaborators on private or internal repositories owned by your organization, excluding forks
- GitHub counts each outside collaborator once, even if the user account has access to multiple repositories in your organization.
- Dormant users who are a member or owner of at least one organization in the enterprise
If your enterprise does not use Enterprise Managed Users, you will also be billed for each of the following accounts:
- Anyone with a pending invitation to become an organization owner or member
- Anyone with a pending invitation to become an outside collaborator on private or internal repositories owned by your organization, excluding forks
- If an invitee does not accept the invitation within seven days, the pending invitation expires automatically.
- Inviting an outside collaborator to a repository using their email address temporarily uses an available seat, even if they already have access to other repositories. After they accept the invite, the seat will be freed up again. Inviting them using their username does not temporarily use a seat.
People who don't consume licenses
- Managed user accounts that are suspended
- Enterprise owners who are not a member or owner of at least one organization in the enterprise, except for the user who set up the enterprise
- Enterprise billing managers
- Billing managers for individual organizations
- Anyone with a pending invitation to become a billing manager
- Anyone with a pending invitation to become an outside collaborator on a public repository owned by your organization
- Guest collaborators who are not organization members or repository collaborators (see Roles in an enterprise)
- Users of Visual Studio subscriptions with GitHub Enterprise whose accounts on GitHub are not linked, and who do not meet any of the other criteria for per-user pricing
- Users who have been provisioned with a managed user account, but are not members of any organizations in the enterprise
Organizations on GitHub Enterprise Server
- Any active user who has successfully authenticated to your GitHub Enterprise Server instance
- Dormant users (administrators can suspend dormant users to free licenses, see Managing dormant users)
People who don't consume a license
- Suspended users (see Suspending and unsuspending users.)
- If you have enabled SCIM on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, the built-in setup user you create, provided you use the
scim-adminusername. - Users who already consume a license on GitHub Enterprise Cloud, provided you sync license usage between environments. See Combined GitHub Enterprise cloud and server use.