GitHub Enterprise Cost Dashboard

GitHub Cost Overview

This dashboard provides a comprehensive view of your GitHub costs, helping you analyze spend patterns, identify the products, SKUs, and organizations driving cost, and track usage over time. Use this page to monitor key cost drivers across GitHub Enterprise Cloud, Copilot, and Actions, optimize seat and usage spend, and improve forecasting accuracy.

Why this matters: GitHub costs are largely seat-based (Enterprise Cloud, Copilot) with a smaller usage-based component (Actions minutes and storage, Copilot AI credits). Seat counts tend to creep up as teams grow and Copilot licenses are handed out, and usage-based items can spike with a busy CI pipeline. Breaking spend down by product, SKU, and organization is what surfaces that growth before it becomes a large line item nobody expected.

Total Costs

Displays the total GitHub spend for the most recent months, alongside month-over-month comparisons.

Monthly Breakdown: Shows the total cost per month, with the percentage change versus the previous month. The current month also shows a forecast value.
Example: For September 2026, the total GitHub cost is $437.00, compared to $460.00 in August (a 5% decrease).
Purpose: Provides a quick, high-level view of monthly spend trends.

Top SKUs

Breaks down GitHub spend by billable SKU for the selected month.

Format: Tabular list with SKU names and associated cost.
Examples (September 2026):
- Enterprise Cloud: $399.00
- Copilot Business: $19.00
- Copilot AI Credits: $19.00
- Actions storage: $0.00
- Actions Linux: $0.00
Use Case: Shows exactly which line items make up each product, so you can tell seat cost apart from usage-based cost.

Top Organizations

Identifies which organizations in your GitHub enterprise are driving the highest costs.

Chart Type: Pie chart with cost per organization and a legend.
Purpose: Helps attribute costs to the right teams and highlight optimization opportunities, such as reclaiming unused seats.

SaaS Cost Chart

Visualizes GitHub cost trends across a selected period, with forecasted months shown as lighter bars.

Period: Configurable (e.g., Last 3 months).
X-Axis: Date (monthly).
Group By: Product by default (ghec, copilot, actions).
Display: Top 10 by default.
Data Table: Below the chart, a table lists each product by month, with Oct-26 shown as both Actual and With Forecast, followed by forecast months, and Total Actual and Total With Forecast columns.
Chart Toolbar: Forecast Period (choose how many months to forecast), Chart Type (switch between chart styles), Download CSV (export the chart data), and Full-Chart View (expand the chart).
Purpose: Enables tracking of cost patterns over time and quick anomaly detection.

Controls and Filters

Interactive tools to refine and customize cost analysis.

Period Selector: Adjust timeframe (Last 3 months, Last 6 months, etc.).
X-Axis / Group By: Choose dimensions such as Date, Product, SKU, or Organization.
Filter By: Narrow results by specific products, SKUs, or organizations. Use Clear All to reset.
Display: Show Top 5, Top 10, etc., to highlight the most impactful items.

Header Tools

Quick actions to manage and share GitHub cost data.

Share: Copy the link with filters applied.
Bookmark: Save the current view, including filters, to revisit later from your profile menu.
Subscription: Set up a recurring email report of this page; see the Subscriptions page for setup steps.
Screenshot: Capture an image of the current view for reporting.
Filters: Open the page-level filters panel.
Reload: Update to the latest spend data.
Help: Access reference documentation.

FAQs

What's the difference between ghec, copilot, and actions?
ghec is the Enterprise Cloud seat charge for your GitHub users. copilot covers Copilot licenses (such as Copilot Business) and Copilot AI credits. actions covers usage-based CI/CD charges such as Linux compute minutes and storage, which can show as $0.00 when usage stays within your included allowance.

Why do Top Products and Top Organizations not match Total Costs exactly?
They can be viewing different periods or filters; the widget headers show the month they cover (for example Sep-26), while Total Costs lists several months. Always check that Period and any applied Filter By selections match before comparing numbers across widgets.

Why does the current month show a second, higher number?
The current month is still in progress. The first value is actual spend to date and the second is the forecast for the full month.