What is this charge? It deducts $0.33 from me every day, but I've already disabled security scanning.

[xengine-qyt]

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Code quality

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The billing information for my organization's repository is as follows:

Even if I disable all the organization's repositories, it still doesn't work?

Moreover, I checked and the Code quality for every repository under the organization is also turned off, and I haven't used GitHub in the past two days. What is this charge for? Where can I turn it off? I don't know what's going on

[kgeminicdev]

Your second screenshot shows where it comes from: Code Quality Licenses, 1 license, $0.322581/unit. That's $10/month for one Code Quality license, prorated over October's 31 days. The breakdown says it too: "For license-based products, the price/unit is a prorated portion of the monthly price." Actions storage and Git LFS storage are under $0.01 and billed at $0.

Disabling it isn't failing. It just doesn't refund the current month. From Disabling Code Quality → When billing stops:

For each billing period, you're charged for the highest number of licenses used at any point during that period, not the number in use at the end. Disabling Code Quality can free licenses for the next period, but it doesn't reduce the charge for the current period.

So someone counted as an active committer on a repo with Code Quality enabled this month, and that one license runs to the end of October, about $10 in total. You can see the switch-off already worked: Oct 1–3 were $4–10 gross (scans using Actions minutes and AI credits), and from Oct 4 only the flat license line is left.

To make sure it stops in November:

1. In org Settings → Code quality, keep No repositories and also turn Enforce access on. It's Off in your screenshot, and without it any repo where an admin enabled Code Quality directly keeps it on.
2. Check Billing and licensing → Licensing for Code Quality "Consumed licenses". It should drop to 0 for the next period.

If it still bills in November with nothing enabled, open a billing ticket. Billing tickets are available on the Free plan.