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About billing for GitHub Copilot in your enterprise

Learn about pricing and billing cycles for Copilot in your enterprise.

Who can use this feature?

Enterprise owners

GitHub Copilot Business and GitHub Copilot Enterprise

About pricing for Copilot in your enterprise

Enterprises on GitHub Enterprise Cloud can subscribe to either GitHub Copilot Business or GitHub Copilot Enterprise. For more information, see "Subscription plans for GitHub Copilot."

Pricing for GitHub Copilot Business

Subscriptions to Copilot Business are available on a monthly cycle. The subscriptions are billed to the enterprise account at the end of each cycle, at $19 USD per user per month.

Pricing for GitHub Copilot Enterprise

With a GitHub Copilot Enterprise subscription, you can choose to assign either Copilot Enterprise or Copilot Business to each individual organization in the enterprise.

Subscriptions to Copilot Enterprise are available on a monthly cycle. The subscriptions are billed to the enterprise account at the end of each cycle, at the following prices:

  • For organizations in the enterprise that are assigned a GitHub Copilot Business subscription: $19 USD per user per month.
  • For organizations in the enterprise that are assigned a GitHub Copilot Enterprise subscription: $39 USD per user per month.

About the billing cycle for Copilot in your enterprise

Billed users are calculated at the end of each billing cycle, based on the number of GitHub Copilot seats that are assigned. You can add or remove seats at any time during the billing cycle.

  • Any seat assigned part way through the billing cycle will be prorated based on the number of days remaining in the cycle.
  • Any seat assignment removed during a billing cycle will take effect from the beginning of the next cycle. The person will still be able to use GitHub Copilot until the end of the cycle. If a user's access to organizations in the enterprise with Copilot seats is removed, they will lose access immediately.

Your enterprise will be charged on whichever payment method you’ve set up for the enterprise account, such as a credit card or a Microsoft Azure subscription.

Note that GitHub may apply a temporary authorization hold for the value of the usage-based costs in advance, which will appear as a pending charge in your account's payment method.

Note

GitHub Copilot billing operates in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), but it calculates your bill according to the timezone of your billing cycle. For example, if you're billed through Azure and your current billing cycle ends at 11:59 PM EST on December 1st, canceling a seat at 7:00 PM EST on December 1st might show the seat cancellation at 12:00 AM UTC on December 2nd. However, the seat would end within the billing cycle that you requested the cancellation, and you would not pay for that seat in the following cycle.

About seat assignment for Copilot in your enterprise

A GitHub Copilot seat is a license to use GitHub Copilot, which is granted to a unique user account through an enterprise's GitHub Copilot Business or GitHub Copilot Enterprise subscription. Each month, the enterprise is charged for the number of assigned seats.

If a single user receives a seat from multiple organizations in the same enterprise, the enterprise will only be billed once per billing cycle for that unique user. One of the organizations that assigned Copilot to the user will be chosen at random each month to be billed for the seat.

Seat assignment is managed by owners of organizations that have been granted access to GitHub Copilot at the enterprise level. See "Granting access to Copilot for members of your organization."

If you are a member of an organization or enterprise with a GitHub Copilot subscription, to use the subscription, you will need to be assigned a seat by an organization owner.

About billing through Azure

When you connect an Azure subscription to your organization or enterprise account and enable metered billing via Azure, metered usage will start to be sent to Azure. You will be billed through GitHub for usage from the start of the current billing cycle to when you enabled metered billing via Azure, on your next billing date. The period between the date you connected your Azure subscription and enabled metered billing via Azure, and the end of the calendar month will be charged in Azure on the first of the month. For more information, see "Connecting an Azure subscription."

Note

Usage data is sent to Azure daily, but you are billed at the end of the month based on the number of seats used. This means that although you can track your daily spending (number of seats in this case), actual payments are processed monthly.

About changes to your Copilot subscription

If you upgrade an organization from Copilot Business to Copilot Enterprise, all users who currently have a seat for Copilot Business will immediately receive access to Copilot Enterprise. You will be charged for each GitHub Copilot Enterprise seat pro rata for the rest of the cycle.

If you downgrade an organization's GitHub Copilot Enterprise subscription during a billing cycle, the users will have access to GitHub Copilot Enterprise for the rest of the cycle, and the change to your bill will take effect from the following cycle.

Disabling GitHub Copilot for all organizations in your enterprise will cancel your enterprise's Copilot subscription.

If you have an active GitHub Copilot Individual subscription, and are then assigned a seat as part of a GitHub Copilot Business or GitHub Copilot Enterprise subscription, your personal GitHub Copilot subscription will be automatically canceled. You will receive a prorated refund for any remaining portion of your personal subscription's current billing cycle. You will then be able to continue using GitHub Copilot according to the policies set at the enterprise or organization level.

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