Group Access Tokens are counted as licensed users

Summary

While using the Group access tokensfeature on gitlab.com, the bots created are consuming the seats and users over license field is incrementing by 1 user for each project access token.

This appears to only be an issue for gitlab.com. In self managed instances it appears that the users are not taking up a seat.

Steps to reproduce

• Log in to GitLab.
• Navigate to the group you would like to create an access token for.
• In the Settings menu choose Access Tokens.
• Choose a name and optional expiry date for the token.
• Choose the desired scopes.
• Click the Create project access token button
• Navigate to Billing
• Navigate to "See Usage"
• Note that "@group_XXXX_bot" users are showing up and counting against license seats

Before adding group access token	After adding group access token

What is the current bug behavior?

Group access tokens are counting against license seats.

What is the expected correct behavior?

Group access tokens are not counted against license seats.

Results of GitLab environment info

Gitlab.com

Possible fixes

Unknown

Related Items

Related to #223695 (closed). Related to #214046 (closed).