diff --git a/action.yml b/action.yml
index a1dd5b77f..2855adef6 100644
--- a/action.yml
+++ b/action.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ inputs:
     default: ${{ github.token }}
   cache-dependency-path:
     description: 'Used to specify the path to dependency files. Supports wildcards or a list of file names for caching multiple dependencies.'
+  ghes_token:
+    description: Used to pull python distributions from actions/python-versions when using Github Enterprise. This should be a github.com read only access token
+    default: ""
 outputs:
   python-version:
     description: "The installed python version. Useful when given a version range as input."
diff --git a/dist/setup/index.js b/dist/setup/index.js
index 321877d9a..c699e65d0 100644
--- a/dist/setup/index.js
+++ b/dist/setup/index.js
@@ -52264,7 +52264,14 @@ const tc = __importStar(__webpack_require__(533));
 const exec = __importStar(__webpack_require__(986));
 const utils_1 = __webpack_require__(163);
 const TOKEN = core.getInput('token');
-const AUTH = !TOKEN || utils_1.isGhes() ? undefined : `token ${TOKEN}`;
+const GHES_TOKEN = core.getInput('ghes_token');
+const AUTH = utils_1.isGhes()
+    ? GHES_TOKEN
+        ? `token ${GHES_TOKEN}`
+        : undefined
+    : TOKEN
+        ? `token ${TOKEN}`
+        : undefined;
 const MANIFEST_REPO_OWNER = 'actions';
 const MANIFEST_REPO_NAME = 'python-versions';
 const MANIFEST_REPO_BRANCH = 'main';
diff --git a/src/install-python.ts b/src/install-python.ts
index 397da0cb9..44e9fa3b2 100644
--- a/src/install-python.ts
+++ b/src/install-python.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,14 @@ import {ExecOptions} from '@actions/exec/lib/interfaces';
 import {IS_WINDOWS, IS_LINUX, isGhes} from './utils';
 
 const TOKEN = core.getInput('token');
-const AUTH = !TOKEN || isGhes() ? undefined : `token ${TOKEN}`;
+const GHES_TOKEN = core.getInput('ghes_token');
+const AUTH = isGhes()
+  ? GHES_TOKEN
+    ? `token ${GHES_TOKEN}`
+    : undefined
+  : TOKEN
+  ? `token ${TOKEN}`
+  : undefined;
 const MANIFEST_REPO_OWNER = 'actions';
 const MANIFEST_REPO_NAME = 'python-versions';
 const MANIFEST_REPO_BRANCH = 'main';