Managing volume licenses for GitHub Advanced Security
You can monitor and control the availability and consumption of licenses for Advanced Security in repositories in your enterprise.
Who can use this feature?
Enterprise owners withvolume/subscription licenses for Advanced Security.
For metered usage, seeSetting up budgets to control spending on metered products.
In this article
There are two different ways to pay for GitHub Secret Protection, GitHub Code Security, and GitHub Advanced Security licenses: volume/subscription licenses purchased in advance or usage-based metered billing paid in arrears. This article is about volume/subscription licenses. For information about the two different billing models, seeGitHub Advanced Security license billing.
For information about using policies to control use of licenses in your enterprise, seeEnforcing policies for code security and analysis for your enterprise.
Changing the size of your license
Navigate to your organization or enterprise. For example, fromhttps://github.com/settings/organizations orhttps://github.com/settings/enterprises.
From the list of "Billing & licensing" pages, clickLicensing.
To add new licenses, select, then clickManage licenses.
Under "Total licenses", click the plus or minus buttons to add or remove licenses.
ClickConfirm licenses.
Canceling your Advanced Security subscription
- Navigate to your organization or enterprise. For example, fromhttps://github.com/settings/organizations orhttps://github.com/settings/enterprises.
- From the list of "Billing & licensing" pages, clickLicensing.
- To the right of "Advanced Security", select, then clickCancel subscription.
- To confirm your cancellation, clickI understand, cancel Advanced Security.