GitHub offers a number of add-ons to enhance developer productivity, collaboration, and workflow automation, including GitHub CoPilot, Codespaces, Actions/Runners, and Advanced Security.

Each of these add-ons has a free tier or is available at no cost to Hopkins affiliates registered with GitHub Education. GitHub Campus users who would like functionality not available in the free tier may request to add the paid version of these add-ons to their GitHub Organizations. 

If you would like to add any of the paid services to your GitHub Organization, please fill out the request form below and we’ll be in touch. 

Important note: To utilize paid services, you’ll need an Azure Subscription ID – this functions like a credit card that GitHub can charge against. If you don’t already have an Azure Subscription, you can request one from the IT@JH SVI team by emailing cloudrequests@jhmi.edu and noting that you’d like the subscription in order to purchase GitHub services. Please cc ospo@jhu.edu on the request email.

Name(Required)
Please enter the URL for all GitHub Organizations you would like to have access to paid services, e.g. https://github.com/JH-OSPO. If you do not have an existing Organization, please fill out the Organization Request Form.
Please add a human-readable name that describes the entity responsible for the billing. It could be a lab, department, division, institute, etc. A single cost center can be used to enable paid add-ons across multiple GitHub Organizations.
An Azure Subscription is required for paid GitHub add-ons. If you do not have an Azure Subscription, please see the instructions above to request one. The Cloud Services team will provide you with the correct Azure Subscription Name and ID.
The Cloud Services team will provide you with the correct Azure Subscription Name and ID. The ID follows the format "221a32301-ff47-4233-1206-c1ef3312957b" - please copy and paste your ID here.
Paid Add-ons Requested(Required)
Please note which add-ons you would like your Organizations to have access to. Descriptions of each add-on and their associated costs are below.
You may identify a monthly budget limit for your add-on services. This is optional.

  • GitHub CoPilot

    GitHub Copilot is a code completion tool that assists users of the Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and JetBrains integrated development environments.

    GitHub Copilot Pro is available at no cost to individual faculty and students who are verified members of GitHub Education. GitHub Education verification is a prerequisite that requires a brief application using your institutional email. Once verified, Copilot Pro then requires a separate activation step before it will work. For full instructions on applying to GitHub Education and activating Copilot Pro, see the GitHub Education for Faculty and Staff section on the GitHub Campus page.

    GitHub CoPilot Business or CoPilot Enterprise can be acquired through paid licensing agreements for labs, departments, or other campus groups. 

    GitHub CoPilot documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot

    GitHub CoPilot pricing: https://github.com/features/copilot/plans

  • GitHub Codespaces

    A GitHub Codespace is a development environment that is hosted in the cloud. Users can customize projects for GitHub Codespaces by committing configuration files to a repository (often known as Configuration-as-Code), which creates a repeatable codespace configuration for all users of a project.

    GitHub Codespaces are available for individual GitHub account holders at no cost, up to a certain amount of compute and storage (see link below for details). GitHub Campus users wishing to access more compute or storage via Codespaces can add billing information to their Campus Organizations, and will be billed monthly for usage.

    GitHub Codespaces documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces

    GitHub Codespaces billing: https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-your-products/managing-billing-for-github-codespaces

  • GitHub Runners

    GitHub Actions Runners are the machines that execute jobs in your GitHub Actions workflows. 

    If your Organization is part of our GitHub Campus account, you have access to a pool of 50,000 Action minutes per month. Some Actions require “Larger Runners,” with more RAM, GPU-powered runners, autoscaling, etc. GitHub Campus users wishing to utilize Larger Runners can add billing information to their Campus Organizations, and will be billed per minute for usage.

    Larger runner documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/using-larger-runners/about-larger-runners

    Larger runners are billed at the per-minute rate for the amount of time workflows are executed on them: https://docs.github.com/en/billing/managing-billing-for-your-products/managing-billing-for-github-actions/about-billing-for-github-actions#per-minute-rates

  • GitHub Advanced Security

    GitHub provides several Advanced Security features, including Secret Protection, which includes features that help you detect and prevent secret leaks, and Code Security, which includes features that help you find and fix vulnerabilities.

    Secret Protection and Code Security are available for free for public repositories. Secret Protection and/or Code Security for internal or private repositories or can be acquired through paid licensing agreements for labs, departments, or other campus groups. 

    GitHub Advanced Security documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/learning-about-github/about-github-advanced-security 

    GitHub Advanced Security billing: https://github.com/security/plans