GitHub Pricing 2026

Yes, GitHub offers a generous free tier with unlimited public and private repositories, 2,000 Actions minutes per month, and 500MB of Packages storage. The free plan works for most individual developers and small open source projects.

GitHub Team costs $4/user/month. It adds protected branches, required reviewers, draft pull requests, and more Actions minutes (3,000/month) compared to the free plan. Team is designed for small development teams.

GitHub Copilot Individual costs $10/month or $100/year. Copilot Business costs $19/user/month. Copilot Enterprise costs $39/user/month with additional features like knowledge bases. Copilot is an add-on and not included in any GitHub plan - you pay for it separately on top of your GitHub subscription.

GitHub Enterprise ($21/user/month) includes SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, 50,000 Actions minutes, 50GB Packages storage, advanced audit log API, IP allow lists, repository rules, and premium support. Both Enterprise Cloud (hosted) and Enterprise Server (self-hosted) are available at this price point.

No, GitHub allows unlimited private repositories on all plans including Free. This changed in 2019 - previously, private repos required a paid plan. Now the main reasons to upgrade are team features, Actions minutes, and enterprise security.

GitHub is competitively priced against GitLab and Bitbucket. GitHub Team ($4/user/month) is cheaper than GitLab Premium ($29/user/month) but GitLab includes more built-in CI/CD. Bitbucket Standard ($3/user/month) is slightly cheaper but GitHub's ecosystem and integrations make it the industry standard.

GitHub offers free Pro features for students (GitHub Student Developer Pack), free Team features for verified open source maintainers, 25% discounts for verified nonprofits, and startup credits through GitHub for Startups. Volume discounts of 15-25% apply for Enterprise at 100+ users.

Yes, GitHub offers free GitHub Team for verified nonprofits and NGOs, plus 25% off Enterprise. Students get free GitHub Pro through the Student Developer Pack. Educators access free tools through GitHub Education. Open source projects get free advanced features through the GitHub Open Source Program.

Enterprise Cloud ($21/user/month) is fully hosted by GitHub with automatic updates and no infrastructure management. Enterprise Server ($21/user/month base) is self-hosted on your own infrastructure, offering data sovereignty and air-gapped deployments but requiring your team to manage updates, backups, and hardware.

GitHub bills monthly per user for Team and Enterprise plans. Annual billing is available with discounts negotiable for larger teams. Actions minutes and Packages storage beyond included limits are billed based on usage at metered rates. You can set spending limits to cap usage-based charges.

Yes, GitHub Enterprise pricing is negotiable for organizations with 100+ users or multi-year commitments. Volume discounts of 15-25% are common for larger deployments. Contact GitHub sales for custom quotes. Nonprofits and education receive automatic discounts.

Exceeding Actions minutes pauses workflows until the next month or you purchase additional minutes ($0.008/minute Linux). Exceeding Packages storage incurs charges at $0.25/GB/month. LFS bandwidth overages are billed at $0.0875/GB. You can set spending limits to avoid unexpected charges.

GitHub Advanced Security ($49/active committer/month) includes code scanning powered by CodeQL, secret scanning to detect leaked credentials, and dependency review for supply chain security. It's only available on Enterprise plans and is priced per active committer, not per user.

GitHub Actions is included free with all plans - Free gets 2,000 minutes/month, Team gets 3,000, and Enterprise gets 50,000. Beyond that, Linux runners cost $0.008/minute, Windows costs $0.016/minute (2x), and macOS costs $0.08/minute (10x). Self-hosted runners are free but you pay for your own infrastructure.

GitHub Team costs $4/user/month. Azure DevOps is free for the first 5 users, then $6/user/month. For teams under 5, Azure DevOps may cost nothing while GitHub charges $4/user/month. A key differentiator is LFS storage: Azure DevOps does not charge for LFS storage, while GitHub charges for usage beyond included plan limits—a meaningful cost difference for teams storing binary assets like game files or design resources.

Yes. SAML SSO and enterprise directory integrations like Entra ID (Azure AD) require GitHub Enterprise at $21/user/month. One enterprise evaluator reported: 'pricing was more since we needed GitHub Enterprise for Entra ID support and other stuff we were getting with basic users in Azure DevOps'—making enterprise authentication a significant and sometimes surprising cost driver.

The Free plan for private repos lacks protected branches, required reviewers, code owners, automatic review assignment, draft pull requests, SAML SSO, environment protection rules, repository insights, and full audit log access. As one community member noted: 'Protected Branches, code owners, draft pull requests, multiple pull request assignees, multiple pull request reviewers, automatic code review assignment, and a few other features related to SCM are not available for free on GitHub for private repositories.'

Multiple users describe GitHub's LFS pricing as 'brutal'—'If the storage capacity doesn't get you, the bandwidth limits certainly will.' The Team plan includes 250GB LFS storage, but bandwidth overages accumulate quickly for teams storing large binary files. Azure DevOps is frequently recommended as a LFS-storage-free alternative for game developers and design-heavy teams.

The Free plan includes 2,000 Actions minutes per month. G2 reviewers note that 'higher CI usage being locked behind paid plans can be restrictive for smaller teams or side projects.' Teams running automated tests and deployments on every commit can exceed this limit quickly, and may need to upgrade to Team or Enterprise for more included minutes.