{"meta":{"title":"GitHub Sponsors billing","intro":"Understand how sponsorship payments appear in your billing, how they align with your existing payment method and billing date, and what fees apply.","product":"Billing and payments","breadcrumbs":[{"href":"/en/billing","title":"Billing and payments"},{"href":"/en/billing/concepts","title":"Concepts"},{"href":"/en/billing/concepts/third-party-payments","title":"Third-party payments"},{"href":"/en/billing/concepts/third-party-payments/github-sponsors","title":"GitHub Sponsors"}],"documentType":"article"},"body":"# GitHub Sponsors billing\n\nUnderstand how sponsorship payments appear in your billing, how they align with your existing payment method and billing date, and what fees apply.\n\nThis article describes the billing model for GitHub Sponsors from the sponsor’s point of view.\n\nYou can sponsor anyone with a sponsored developer profile or sponsored organization profile on behalf of your personal account or an organization. You can select from a range of sponsorship tiers, whether for an individual profile or multiple profiles in bulk, and choose between one-time or monthly payment amounts and benefits, all determined by the sponsored account.\n\nYour sponsorship will share your account’s existing billing date, payment method, and receipt.\n\n## What a sponsorship billing entry represents\n\nA sponsorship is a monetary commitment you make to a sponsored developer or organization through GitHub. Each active recurring sponsorship produces a charge on its renewal date; one‑time sponsorships produce a single charge. For more information, see [About GitHub Sponsors](/en/sponsors/getting-started-with-github-sponsors/about-github-sponsors).\n\n## Unified payment method and billing date\n\nYour sponsorships use the same stored payment method as your other paid products for the relevant personal account or organization. They follow the existing billing date/cycle for that account.\n\nYou can review active sponsorships alongside other paid subscriptions for the account to understand total ongoing commitments and historical charges.\n\nIf you sponsor from multiple accounts (personal vs organization), each account’s sponsorship charges stay separate and align with that account’s own billing cycle.\n\nYou must manage billing settings and paid features for each of your accounts separately.\n\nYou can switch between settings for your personal account, organization accounts, and enterprise accounts using the context switcher on each settings page. See [Accessing the billing pages](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/billing/get-started/introduction-to-billing#accessing-the-billing-pages) in the GitHub Enterprise Cloud docs.\n\n## Fees\n\nGitHub Sponsors does not charge any fees for sponsorships from personal accounts, so 100% of these sponsorships go to the sponsored developer or organization. GitHub Sponsors charges a fee of up to 6% for sponsorships from organization accounts. The 6% fee is split between the following:\n\n* 3% credit card processing fee\n* 3% GitHub service processing fee\n\nOrganizations can save the 3% credit card processing fee by switching to invoiced billing for sponsorships. For more information, see [Paying for GitHub Sponsors by invoice](/en/sponsors/sponsoring-open-source-contributors/paying-for-github-sponsors-by-invoice).\n\n## Privacy\n\nSponsored parties see sponsorship details required for recognition or fulfillment, not your underlying payment method details.\n\n## How sponsorship billing works\n\n1. You create a one‑time or recurring sponsorship at a chosen amount (tier or custom amount if permitted).\n2. The amount is charged (immediately for one‑time, and on each renewal cycle for recurring).\n3. Changes to amount or cancelation affect future cycles (the current paid period continues until the next renewal unless you selected a one‑time sponsorship).\n4. Ended sponsorships stop appearing as future charges but remain in historical billing records.\n\nProration is generally not part of sponsorship billing: changing an amount updates future renewals rather than retroactively adjusting the in‑progress period.\n\n## Further reading\n\n* [About GitHub Sponsors](/en/sponsors/getting-started-with-github-sponsors/about-github-sponsors)\n* [Sponsoring open source contributors](/en/sponsors/sponsoring-open-source-contributors)"}