Setting up a trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud

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About GitHub Enterprise Cloud

GitHub Enterprise Cloud is a plan for large businesses or teams who collaborate on GitHub.com.

Your team can collaborate on GitHub by using an organization account. Each person that uses GitHub signs into a user account. Multiple user accounts can collaborate on shared projects by joining the same organization account, which owns the repositories. A subset of these user accounts can be given the role of organization owner, which allows those people to granularly manage access to the organization's resources using sophisticated security and administrative features. For more information about accounts, see "Types of GitHub accounts."

You can use organizations for free with GitHub Free, which includes limited features. For additional features, such as SAML single sign-on (SSO), access control for GitHub Pages, and included GitHub Actions minutes, you can upgrade to GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For a detailed list of the features available with GitHub Enterprise Cloud, see our Pricing page.

You can set up a trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud to evaluate these additional features on a new or existing organization account.

Trials are also available for GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see "Setting up a trial of GitHub Enterprise Server."

如果不确定 GitHub Enterprise Cloud、GitHub Enterprise Server 或二者是否最适合您的组织，请联系 GitHub' 销售团队。 如果您的组织有 11 个或更少的开发人员，请考虑 GitHub Team；拥有 12 个或更多开发人员的组织通常从 GitHub Enterprise 中获益最大。 更多信息请参阅“GitHub 的产品”。

About trials of GitHub Enterprise Cloud

You can set up a 30-day trial to evaluate GitHub Enterprise Cloud. You do not need to provide a payment method during the trial unless you add GitHub Marketplace apps to your organization that require a payment method. For more information, see "About billing for GitHub Marketplace."

Your trial includes 50 seats. If you need more seats to evaluate GitHub Enterprise Cloud, contact GitHub' 销售团队. At the end of the trial, you can choose a different number of seats.

If you configure SAML SSO, members of your organization will continue to log into their user accounts on GitHub.com. When a member accesses non-public resources within your organization that uses SAML SSO, GitHub redirects the member to your IdP to authenticate. 身份验证成功后，IdP 将该成员重定向回 GitHub，然后成员可以访问组织的资源。

For more information, see "About identity and access management with SAML single sign-on" in the GitHub Enterprise Cloud documentation.

Enterprise Managed Users is not part of the free trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud. If you're interested in Enterprise Managed Users, please contact GitHub's Sales team.

Setting up your trial of GitHub Enterprise Cloud

Before you can try GitHub Enterprise Cloud, you must be signed into a user account. If you don't already have a user account on GitHub.com, you must create one. For more information, see "Signing up for a new GitHub account."

1. Navigate to GitHub for enterprises.
2. Click Start a free trial.
3. Click Enterprise Cloud.
4. Follow the prompts to configure your trial.

Exploring GitHub Enterprise Cloud

After setting up your trial, you can explore GitHub Enterprise Cloud by following the Enterprise Onboarding Guide.

You can read documentation that reflects the features available to you on GitHub. 更多信息请参阅“关于 GitHub Docs 的版本”。

有关计划功能和产品的信息，请参阅 GitHub 公共路线图。

Finishing your trial

You can buy GitHub Enterprise at any time during your trial. Purchasing GitHub Enterprise ends your trial, removing the 50-seat maximum and initiating payment.

If you don't purchase GitHub Enterprise, when the trial ends, your organization will be downgraded. If you used an existing organization for the trial, the organization will be downgraded to the product you were using before the trial. If you created a new organization for the trial, the organization will be downgraded to GitHub Free.

Your organization will lose access to any functionality that is not included in the new product, such as advanced features like GitHub Pages for private repositories. If you don't plan to upgrade, to avoid losing access to advanced features, consider making affected repositories public before your trial ends. For more information, see "Setting repository visibility."

Downgrading also disables any SAML settings configured during the trial period. If you later purchase GitHub Enterprise, your SAML settings will be enabled again for users in your organization to authenticate.

1. In the top right corner of GitHub.com, click your profile photo, then click Your organizations.

2. 在组织旁边，单击 Settings（设置）。

3. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Billing and plans.

4. Under "GitHub Enterprise Cloud Free Trial", click Buy Enterprise or Downgrade to Team.

5. Follow the prompts to enter your payment method, then click Submit.