docs/content/billing/concepts/azure-subscriptions.md

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Azure subscription payments	Learn about paying for metered usage of {% data variables.product.github %} plans, licenses, and usage with an Azure subscription.	Azure subscriptions	fpt ghec ghes * * *	Billing Enterprise Team Azure subscription	concepts	Organization and enterprise accounts can pay for any metered use of {% data variables.product.github %} using an Azure subscription. This option is not available for personal accounts.

Payment using an Azure subscription

You can pay for {% data variables.product.github %} use through an Azure subscription by connecting the subscription to {% data variables.product.github %}. See AUTOTITLE.

{% data variables.product.github %} installs a Subscription Permission Validation app (SPV app) on the Azure tenant, which it uses to get a list of available subscriptions from active directory. Installing the SPV app requires tenant-wide admin consent. You must sign into an Azure account that can provide tenant-wide admin consent, or work with an Azure administrator to configure the admin consent workflow.

• Grant tenant-wide admin consent to an application in Microsoft Docs
• User and admin consent in Azure Active Directory in Microsoft Docs.

[!TIP] If your tenant provides user consent settings, users included in those settings might not require admin consent to install the {% data variables.product.company_short %} SPV app. See User consent in Microsoft Docs.

Billing cycle for Azure

If you link your {% data variables.product.github %} account to Azure, any usage-based costs starting from that point will be billed through Azure and charged on the 1st of each month. However, any remaining {% data variables.product.github %} charges, for example, charges for your {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} plan, will still be billed on your usual billing date.

Prepaid usage is not currently available for usage-based billing through Azure.

Calculation example

You link your Azure subscription to your organization or enterprise account on June 16th and you also have a {% data variables.copilot.copilot_for_business %} subscription.

• From that June 16th onwards, any usage costs for {% data variables.copilot.copilot_business_short %}, with any costs for metered use over the included amounts, is included in your Azure bill and charged on July 1st and on the first of every month.
• Any charges incurred before June 16th are billed separately through {% data variables.product.github %} on your account's usual billing date.

Use of {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_cloud %} through a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement

If you use {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_cloud %} through a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, connecting an Azure subscription is the only way to use {% data variables.product.prodname_GHAS %}, {% data variables.product.prodname_github_codespaces %}, or {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot %}, or to use {% data variables.product.prodname_actions %}, Git Large File Storage (LFS), or {% data variables.product.prodname_registry %} beyond your plan's included amounts.

Next steps

For instructions on connecting your Azure subscription, see AUTOTITLE.

For reference information, see AUTOTITLE.