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Managing your license for GitHub Enterprise

GitHub Enterprise includes both cloud and self-hosted deployment options. If you host a GitHub Enterprise Server instance, you must unlock the instance with a license file. You can view, manage, and update the license file.

About licenses for GitHub Enterprise

If you deploy GitHub Enterprise Server in addition to using GitHub Enterprise Cloud, you can synchronize your license usage between deployments, and use a license file to unlock each GitHub Enterprise Server instance.

Downloading your license for GitHub Enterprise

You can download a copy of your license file for GitHub Enterprise Server.

Viewing license usage for GitHub Enterprise

You can view license usage for your enterprise on GitHub.com.

Syncing license usage between GitHub Enterprise Server and GitHub Enterprise Cloud

You can sync license usage from GitHub Enterprise Server to GitHub Enterprise Cloud to view all license usage across your enterprise in one place and ensure that people with accounts in both environments only consume one user license.

Troubleshooting license usage for GitHub Enterprise

You can troubleshoot license usage for your enterprise by auditing license reports.