Used For

• +**Your developers keep inviting random email addresses to private repos** → All user accounts get provisioned through your company's login system automatically
• +**Spend 30 minutes onboarding each new developer with repo access** → New hires get all the right permissions in 2 minutes when IT adds them to the system
• +**Your CI builds hit the free tier limit and stop running mid-month** → 50,000 minutes of build time monthly handles about 1,000 daily builds
• +Enterprise Managed Users completely locks down who can access company code - no personal GitHub accounts allowed
• +Audit logs stream directly to your security tools so compliance teams stop asking for access reports

Best For

• >Your developers are using personal GitHub accounts for company code and security is freaking out
• >Hit the limits on regular GitHub and your CI builds are getting throttled mid-sprint
• >Need to pass SOC2 compliance and auditors want to see who accessed what code when

Not For

• -Teams under 100 developers — you're paying $21+ per person monthly for user management features designed for 500+ person orgs
• -Companies wanting simple setup — configuring SAML and user provisioning takes 1-2 days and requires IT admin knowledge
• -Anyone hoping to save money — the base price is just the start before you add Copilot, support, and overage charges

Pairs With

• *Okta (handles the single sign-on so developers log in once and get access to everything)
• *Splunk (where your security team sends all the audit logs to track who did what)
• *Jira (for issue tracking since GitHub Issues is still pretty basic for project management)
• *SonarCloud (to actually check code quality since GitHub's built-in security scanning misses a lot)
• *Azure Pipelines (when you need more complex CI/CD than GitHub Actions can handle)
• *Slack (where your team gets notifications about pull requests and complains about mandatory code reviews)

The Catch

• !Your first Actions bill will be a surprise - teams regularly hit $2,000+ monthly when CI jobs spike beyond the 50k minute limit
• !Setting up Enterprise Managed Users locks you into their system permanently - you can't easily migrate back to regular GitHub
• !You need someone who understands SAML and SCIM integration or you'll spend a week in support tickets during setup

Bottom Line

GitHub that your IT department can actually lock down without developers staging a revolt.