Note: Codespaces is free to use for all organizations on a GitHub Team or GitHub Enterprise Cloud plan until September 10, 2021. After this trial period ends, you must set a spending limit to continue to use Codespaces. For more information, see "Managing spending limits for Codespaces."
Codespaces pricing
Codespaces usage is billed for all accounts on the Team and Enterprise plans, and does not include any entitlements. Individual accounts are not currently billed for Codespaces usage.
Codespaces usage is billed according to the units of measure in the following table:
| Product | SKU | Unit of measure | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Codespaces Compute | 2 core | 1 hour | $0.18 |
| 4 core | 1 hour | $0.36 | |
| 8 core | 1 hour | $0.72 | |
| 16 core | 1 hour | $1.44 | |
| 32 core | 1 hour | $2.88 | |
| Codespaces Storage | Storage | 1 GB-month | $0.07 |
About billing for Codespaces
Codespaces are billed in US dollars (USD) according to their compute and storage usage.
Calculating compute usage
The total number of uptime minutes for which the Codespaces instances are active. Compute usage is calculated by the actual number of minutes used by all codespaces. These totals are reported to the billing service daily, and are billed monthly.
Calculating storage usage
For Codespaces billing purposes, this includes all storage used by all codespaces in your account. This includes any files used by the codespaces, such as cloned repositories, configuration files, and extensions, among others. These totals are reported to the billing service daily, and are billed monthly. At the end of the month, GitHub rounds your storage to the nearest MB.
Your Codespaces usage shares your account's existing billing date, payment method, and receipt. To view all the subscriptions for your GitHub account, see "Viewing your subscriptions and billing date."
If you purchased GitHub Enterprise through a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, you can connect your Azure Subscription ID to your enterprise account to enable and pay for Codespaces usage. For more information, see "Connecting an Azure subscription to your enterprise."
Setting a spending limit
Note: After the Codespaces trial period ends, you must set a spending limit before you can use Codespaces. By default, your organization will have a Codespaces spending limit of $0, which prevents any codespaces from being created. To allow your users to create codespaces in your organization, set the limit to a value higher than $0.
By default, your organization will have a Codespaces spending limit of $0, which prevents new codespaces from being created or existing codespaces from being opened. To allow your users to create codespaces in your organization, set the limit to a value higher than $0.
For information on managing and changing your account's spending limit, see "Managing your spending limit for Codespaces."
How billing is handled for forked repositories
Codespaces can only be used in organizations where a billable owner has been defined. To incur charges to the organization, the user must be a member or collaborator, otherwise they cannot create a codespace.
For example, a user in a private organization can fork a repository within that organization, and can subsequently use a codespace billed to the organization; this is because the organization is the owner of the parent repository, which can remove the user's access, the forked repository, and the codespace.
How billing is handled when a repository is transferred
Usage is billed and reported on every hour. As such, you pay for any usage when a repository is within your organization. When a repository is transferred out of your organization, any codespaces in that repository are removed as part of the transfer process.
What happens when users are removed
If a user is removed from an organization or repository, their codespaces are automatically deleted.