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GitHub pricing
GitHub publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $4/month
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
GitHub plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
| Team | $4/month | 5 | +$4/month, 5 more features |
| Enterprise | $21/month | 5 | +$17/month, 5 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers unlimited public/private repos, 2,000 ci/cd minutes/month, 500mb package storage, community support, github pages.
Team
$4/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Everything in Free
- 3,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 2GB package storage
- Protected branches
- Code owners
Enterprise
$21/monthOver Team, this tier adds:
- Everything in Team
- 50,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 50GB package storage
- SAML single sign-on
- Advanced auditing
Where GitHub stops being free
Free, Free
- Unlimited public/private repos
- 2,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 500MB package storage
- Community support
- GitHub Pages
Team, $4/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Everything in Free
- 3,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 2GB package storage
- Protected branches
- Code owners
What the product covers
The full GitHub feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Git repositories
- Pull requests
- Code review
- Issues & projects
- GitHub Actions CI/CD
- GitHub Pages
- Security scanning
- Dependency management
Integrations
- VS Code
- Slack
- Jira
- Jenkins
- Docker
- AWS
- Azure
- Heroku
Security
- 2FA
- SAML SSO
- SOC2
- ISO27001
- FedRAMP
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
- Self-hosted deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Desktop support
- Mobile support
- Cli support
- Api support
Localization
- All programming languages language support
People bring GitHub in for version control, code collaboration, ci/cd pipelines, project management, documentation hosting. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to GitHub are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Technology
Across the 5 technology tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $35/month. GitHub starts at $4/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub (this page) | Free, then $4/month | subscription | - | |
| Checkmk | On request | subscription | - | vs GitHub |
| Asana | Free, then $10.99/month | - | - | vs GitHub |
| Amplitude | Free, then $49/month | - | - | vs GitHub |
| Apache Spark | Free | open-source | - | vs GitHub |
| Attio | $29/month | subscription | - | vs GitHub |
| Aha! | $59/month | - | - | vs GitHub |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the GitHub badges page.
Before you pay for GitHub
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and $21/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
GitHub runs on web, desktop, mobile, and is published by GitHub Inc (Microsoft) of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the GitHub review, and the rest of the category is under best technology tools.
GitHub pricing questions
- How much does GitHub cost?
- GitHub publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to $21/month for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does GitHub have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers unlimited public/private repos, 2,000 ci/cd minutes/month, 500mb package storage. Paying starts at $4/month for Team.
- What is the difference between Free and Team on GitHub?
- Team costs $4/month against Free, and adds everything in free, 3,000 ci/cd minutes/month, 2gb package storage, protected branches.
- Is the Enterprise plan on GitHub worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is everything in team, 50,000 ci/cd minutes/month, 50gb package storage, saml single sign-on. It costs $21/month against $4/month for Team. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is GitHub expensive for a technology tool?
- It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 5 technology tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $35/month; GitHub starts at $4/month.
- Which technology tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 technology tools listed alongside GitHub have a free tier: Asana, Amplitude, Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, Auth0.
- What am I actually paying for with GitHub?
- The record lists 29 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for version control, code collaboration, ci/cd pipelines.
- Does GitHub charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these GitHub prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare GitHub against before paying?
- The closest technology tools in this directory are Checkmk, Asana, Amplitude, Apache Spark. Each has a side-by-side comparison with GitHub covering price, platforms and features.