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
- Anyone with a failed invitation to become an organization member or an outside collaborator on a 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 or usage-based billing, you will also be billed for each of the following accounts. Under usage-based billing, pending invitations do not consume a license. See Usage-based billing for enterprise licenses.
- Anyone with a pending invitation to become an organization owner or member
- If the invited user already consumes an enterprise license, a pending organization invitation won't use an additional license—as long as the invitation is sent to their GitHub username or a verified email address on their account.
- 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.
- If the invited user already consumes an enterprise license because they're a collaborator on an internal or private repository in the enterprise, a pending collaborator invitation using their email address for another repository in the enterprise consumes an available seat. 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
- Suspended Managed user accounts