A designer counts towards the billable Designers Total.
Collaborators can interact with your repo, but doesn't count towards your billable total. You can have as many collaboarators as you want.

Designers have these repo permissions
- push commits
- create new files
Collaborators can have the following repo permissions
- Issues: read, create, comment, edit, and attach files
- Design read, reviews: create, comment, edit, and attach files
- Releases: read, create, comment, edit, and attach files
- Wiki: read, create, edit
- Projects: create, edit