About
GitHub is a developer platform for hosting code, collaborating on software projects, and managing the full software development lifecycle. It brings repositories, pull requests, issues, project planning, code review, automation, and security tools together in one place.
The platform also supports cloud-based development environments, AI-assisted coding, package hosting, and enterprise controls for teams that need scalable workflows and governance. It is widely used by individuals, open source communities, startups, and large organizations.
- Source code hosting with public and private repositories
- Collaboration tools for pull requests, issues, discussions, and projects
- Automation and delivery workflows through GitHub Actions and Codespaces
- Security capabilities including Dependabot, secret protection, and code security
- AI features such as GitHub Copilot and GitHub Models
Free Tier Value
GitHub’s Free plan is explicitly listed as $0 USD per month forever and includes unlimited public/private repositories, Dependabot updates, 2,000 Actions minutes/month, 500 MB Packages storage, Issues & Projects, and community support. Because the plan is unbounded on the core repository feature and the page does not provide a concrete paid overage rate for the free-tier bundle, the conservative FTV is null with always_free_unbounded=true. The page also advertises a 30-day free trial for the Copilot-powered platform/Enterprise trial, but that is separate from the Free tier value signal.
What's included in the free tier
- Unlimited public and private repositories for hosting code.
- Dependabot security and version updates for vulnerable dependencies.
- 2,000 GitHub Actions CI/CD minutes per month.
- 500 MB of GitHub Packages storage.
- Issues and Projects for project management and tracking.
- Community support via the GitHub Community Forum.
See GitHub pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Team
- CI/CD minutes/month
- 3,000
- Packages storage
- 2GB
- Everything included in Free, plus access to GitHub Codespaces
- Repository rules
- Multiple reviewers in pull requests
- Draft pull requests
- Code owners
- Required reviewers
- Pages and Wikis
- Environment deployment branches and secrets
Enterprise
- CI/CD minutes/month
- 50,000
- Packages storage
- 50GB
- Everything included in Team, plus data residency
- Enterprise Managed Users
- User provisioning through SCIM
- Enterprise Account to centrally manage multiple organizations
- Environment protection rules
- Repository rules
- Audit Log API
- SAML single sign-on
Pricing extracted from GitHub's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
