# Organizations and personal accounts

> Which Skipbox app to install on a GitHub organization or a personal account, who installs it, and who can buy plans.

Skipbox works on GitHub organizations and on personal accounts, through two apps. Plans, the trial and prices are the same for both.

| | An organization | A personal account |
|---|---|---|
| The app | **Skipbox CI** | **Skipbox (personal)** |
| Who installs it | An owner of the organization | The account's owner |
| Where its runners are registered | On the organization | On each job's repository |
| Repositories | Private ones | Private ones |

## An organization

An owner installs the Skipbox CI app. If you aren't an owner, GitHub sends the owners your request when you press install. The owner who installs it then signs in to skipbox.dev once, so jobs can start; until they do, jobs wait on GitHub.

Members of the organization who sign in see its page and its jobs.

## A personal account

Install the Skipbox (personal) app on your own account. GitHub's sign-in screen says "Skipbox CI": that's only for signing in.

If you install Skipbox CI on a personal account, or Skipbox (personal) on an organization, Skipbox removes that install and emails you the link to the right app.

## Who can buy plans

Only the person who installed the app on the account can buy its plans. On a personal account, that's its owner. The same person opens **Manage billing** to change the card, see invoices or cancel. See [Billing, invoices and refunds](https://docs.skipbox.dev/billing).

## The trial

There is one trial per account and one per person. A person whose trial went to an organization gets none on their personal account. See [Free trial](https://docs.skipbox.dev/trial).

## Public repositories

Jobs from public repositories don't run on Skipbox: anyone who opens a pull request could run code on the runner. The job is refused and the owner is emailed. Change its `runs-on` back to a GitHub-hosted label there.

Updated 2026-11-09 · https://docs.skipbox.dev/accounts