This article explains how billing works for your codespaces, and explains how your organization's billing manager can help.
Getting access to Codespaces
Your organization's administrator might limit Codespaces usage to only specific user accounts. To get access, you will need to contact your billing manager. For more information, see "Managing access and security for your codespaces."
How much it costs to use Codespaces
To see the pricing for Codespaces usage, see "Codespaces pricing."
How your codespace usage is billed
Your codespace is billed for its compute minutes and for the amount of storage it uses on disk.
If you enable prebuilding of codespaces this will incur additional charges. For more information, see "About Codespaces prebuilds."
Understanding what compute minutes are
Your codespace is billed for the number of minutes that it's active. If your codespaces window is left idle for 30 minutes, it will automatically shutdown, and compute billing for the codespace will end until you start the codespace again.
Understanding how codespace storage is billed
For Codespaces, storage is defined to include any files relating to your codespace, such as the cloned repository, configuration files, and extensions, among others. This storage is billed while your codespace is shutdown. The storage billing for a codespace ends when you manually delete it from https://github.com/codespaces.
How spending limits work
Before your organization can use Codespaces, your billing manager will need to set a spending limit. For more information, see "Managing spending limits for Codespaces."
Exporting changes when you have reached your spending limit
If you hit a spending limit, you will no longer be able to create or resume your codespaces. You can still export any work in progress changes to a new branch.
Checking your current usage and limits
If you need to check your current usage or spending limit, contact your organization's billing manager. For more information, see "Viewing your Codespaces usage."
Codespaces can be automatically deleted
Your codespace will be automatically deleted when you are removed from an organization or repository.
Deleting your unused codespaces
You can manually delete your codespaces in https://github.com/codespaces and from within Visual Studio Code. To reduce the size of a codespace, you can manually delete files using the terminal or from within Visual Studio Code.
