When would you choose GitHub Enterprise Cloud over GitHub Team?

Team adds the collaboration governance a growing group needs, required reviewers, Code Owners, protected branches, and a larger Actions minute allowance, on top of what Free provides. Enterprise Cloud is aimed at organizations that need identity and compliance controls a single team-level plan doesn't provide.

The clearest signal to move to Enterprise is needing centralized identity management across many teams: SAML single sign-on, SCIM user provisioning, an audit log spanning the whole organization, and the ability to enforce policy (like mandatory two-factor authentication or IP allow-lists) at the company level rather than per-repository. Enterprise also unlocks the largest Actions minute and storage allowances for organizations running CI/CD at real scale.

A single product team focused on faster review cycles and more CI capacity is usually well served by Team. A company that needs to prove, org-wide, that access is controlled through its central identity provider and every action is auditable is the case Enterprise is built for.