GitHub Pricing
- Development pricing
- $4/mo at the smallest
- Free plan
GitHub pricing starts at $4 a month, which is $48 over twelve months. There is a free plan, and a trial on the paid tiers: 30 days on Enterprise. Every figure below was read from the vendor's pricing page on 9 August 2026.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
GitHub ranking and coverage
- In Development
- #3 of 18 tied
- Overall
- #7 of 122 tied
- Terms score
- 8.2 /10
- Referenced here
- 2 pages
Cost position 7.5 · Portability 8 · Subscription flexibility 9 - Ranked on published terms only: entry price against category peers, portability and subscription flexibility, equally weighted. This is not a quality score.How the rank is calculated.
GitHub pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Free for unlimited public and private repositories; Team $4 per user/month |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $4 a month, or $48 a year |
| How that is reached | Team at $4 a month |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | 30 days on Enterprise |
| How it charges | freemium |
| Priced plans published | 5 rows on the vendor's page |
| Affiliate programme | No |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 9 August 2026 |
Every GitHub plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 9 August 2026. Charged as freemium. Free trial: 30 days on Enterprise.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | per month | per user - Unlimited public and private repos, 2,000 Actions minutes per month |
| Team | $4 | per month | per user - Protected branches, code owners, 3,000 Actions minutes per month |
| Enterprise | $21 | per month | per user - SAML SSO, audit log, GitHub Advanced Security available |
| Actions overage Add-on | $0.008 per minute | per usage | Standard Linux runners; other runner types cost more |
| Storage overage Add-on | $0.25 per GB | per usage | Packages and Actions artifacts beyond the included allowance |
What GitHub actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teamper user | per month | $4 | $48 |
| Enterpriseper user | per month | $21 | $252 |
GitHub pricing over time
Read from 15 archived captures of the vendor's pricing page , spanning June 2014 to September 2026. Every figure below links to the capture it came from, so you can check it against the page as it stood on the day.
- Team changed 2 times between 10 June 2016 and 1 September 2026, from $25 to $4 per user.
- Enterprise has been published at $21 per user in every capture we read, from 10 June 2016 to 1 September 2026.
Team
Enterprise
| Published price | Charged | Seen from | Last seen | Capture |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $21 | per user | 10 June 2016 | 1 September 2026 | Archive |
1 archived capture with no price we could read
The capture exists, but the figures on it could not be extracted - usually a page that renders prices in JavaScript, or a currency selector the archive did not record. Listed rather than dropped, because a gap in a price history reads as "nothing changed" and these are not that.
- 5 June 2014 - capture - no plan name sat next to a published figure in this capture
Compiled 18 September 2026 from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Plan names were matched against the archived page text and the first currency-anchored figure within 160 characters was recorded, rejecting any figure with a competing plan name standing between it and the name it was matched to. The currency and the unit were read from each capture rather than assumed: captures served in a currency other than $, and captures where no plan name sat beside a figure, are listed as unread rather than dropped. Archived pages show the price as served to the archive's crawler, which may differ by region from the price you are shown.
GitHub pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against GitHub |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub | $4 a month | Yes | This product |
| GitLab | $29 a month | Yes | +$25 a month (+625%) |
Which GitHub plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You are an individual or small team, public or private | Free | Unlimited public and private repositories with unlimited collaborators and 2,000 Actions minutes. The most generous free tier in this category. |
| You need protected branches and code owners | Team | $4 per user a month. Cheap, and the usual reason to leave Free is review enforcement. |
| You need SAML SSO and audit logs | Enterprise | $21 per user. A large step, driven by identity and compliance requirements. |
| Your CI runs constantly | Watch Actions minutes | Overage is $0.008 per minute on standard Linux runners and more on others. This is where GitHub bills grow unnoticed. |
| You must self-host for compliance | Consider GitLab instead | GitLab can be self-hosted at every tier; GitHub's equivalent is enterprise-only. |
Verdict by who you are
Almost any software teamYes
The default for a reason. Unlimited private repos with unlimited collaborators free, and every tool you might add integrates with it first.
Open-source maintainerYes
This is where contributors are. Nothing else is close for public projects.
Regulated organisation needing on-premiseCompare first
Possible only at enterprise level. GitLab is the more natural fit for self-hosting.
Team wanting predictable CI costsCompare first
Actions is excellent and metered. Without someone watching minutes, the bill surprises people.
Team wanting integrated project managementCompare first
Projects has improved but is not a substitute for Jira or Linear.
Should you buy GitHub?
Buy GitHub if…
- Almost any team writing software collaboratively
- Open-source projects and public developer presence
- Teams wanting CI/CD without running their own runners
Do not buy GitHub if…
- Organisations requiring on-premise hosting on lower tiers
- Teams wanting integrated project management as the primary tool
- Anyone who needs predictable CI costs without monitoring usage
What leaving GitHub would cost
low lock-in
GitHub scores on self-hostable, public API. Portability 8/10 ; lock-in is the inverse. How this is calculated.
The free tier is the story
Unlimited private repositories with unlimited collaborators, plus 2,000 Actions minutes a month, at no cost. For most small teams that is the whole product. The paid tiers exist for organisations that need enforcement: protected branches, required reviewers, code owners and, at Enterprise, SSO and audit logs.
Where the bill actually comes from
Seats are cheap. Compute is not. Actions bills per minute beyond the included allowance, and rates differ sharply by runner: Linux is the cheapest, Windows costs more, macOS considerably more again. A test matrix that fans out across operating systems on every push can cost more per month than the entire team’s licences. Set spending limits before you need them, not after.
GitHub or GitLab?
Choose GitHub when collaboration and ecosystem matter most, which is nearly always for teams that work with outside contributors or hire regularly. Choose GitLab when you want a complete DevOps pipeline in one product, or when self-hosting is a requirement rather than a preference. The gap on core Git workflow is small; the gap on network effects is not.
Copilot is a separate purchase
GitHub Copilot is licensed on its own, not bundled into Team or Enterprise. If AI assistance is part of the reason you are evaluating GitHub, price it as an additional per-seat cost rather than assuming the platform tier includes it.
GitHub questions, answered
- Is GitHub worth it?
- GitHub's real product is the network. Contributors already have accounts, tooling already integrates, and hiring assumes familiarity, so choosing anything else imposes a cost that has nothing to do with features.
- How much does GitHub cost?
- Free for unlimited public and private repositories; Team $4 per user/month. The cheapest paid tier we recorded is Team, published at $4 a month, which works out at $4 a month or $48 over a year. Verified against the vendor's pricing page.
- Does GitHub have a free plan or free trial?
- GitHub has a free plan. A free trial is available: 30 days on Enterprise.
- What is the best GitHub alternative?
- It depends on the job. GitLab: A more complete built-in DevOps pipeline, and self-hostable at every tier. Bitbucket: The natural choice if your organisation already lives in Atlassian tools. Gitea or Forgejo: Lightweight self-hosted Git when you want to own the whole thing.
- Can I self-host GitHub?
- Yes. GitHub can be run on your own infrastructure, so the data stays under your control.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 9 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Every claim below is about our work, not about GitHub. A "no" is recorded rather than omitted, because the difference between a tested review and careful desk research is the reader's to weigh. How we research a profile.
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Prices read from the vendor : yes
Read from GitHub's own pricing page on 9 August 2026
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Plans and terms recorded : yes
5 rows, each with its billing period
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Original screenshots : yes
2 captured by us: pricing page, homepage
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Sources cited and dated : yes
1 primary source, each with the date it was read
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Product used first-hand : no
Not tested. This profile is desk research from primary sources
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Alternatives used first-hand : no
None, so comparisons here rest on published facts rather than use
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Vendor contacted : no
Not contacted for this profile
Where GitHub appears on this site
2 other pages here reference GitHub. Every one is listed below, so the figure can be checked rather than taken.
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Provenance and freshness
When each fact was last checked
- Pricing ·
- Plans ·
- Free trial
- Features
- Platforms
- Integrations
- Affiliate programme
- Company details
What has changed
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August 2026
- Per-user pricing and Actions overage rates verified
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- GitHub pricing - checked 9 August 2026
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