You can create cost centers to attribute usage and spending to business units, improving accountability, forecasting, and cost allocation.
If your account is billed through Azure, you can add an Azure subscription to a cost center to bill usage to a different Azure subscription than the enterprise default.
To get started with cost centers, see Using cost centers to allocate costs to business units.
Cost center allocation
To allocate metered spending to a cost center, you add repositories, organizations, or users to the cost center.
- For metered products like GitHub Actions, cost centers are charged based on the repositories or organizations in the cost center, as this is where the usage takes place.
- For metered license-based products like GitHub Copilot, cost centers are charged based on the users in the cost center.
Cost centers only apply to metered usage, and do not work with volume or subscription billing.
For more details, see Cost center allocation for different products.