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GitHub
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What GitHub is
Git hosting with pull requests, Actions CI, packages, security scanning and Copilot. Free for unlimited public and private repositories.
What GitHub has cost
We have read this pricing page 14 times since Jan 2021, including archived copies of it. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.
- $4/moJan 2021 – Jul 2021 · Team · 2 readings · archived page
- $4/mo*Jan 2022 · Team · 1 reading · archived page
- $4/moJul 2022 – Aug 2026 · Team · 11 readings · archived page
* That reading is the effective monthly cost when paying for a year up front, which is what the page published at the time.
Gaps are ours, not the vendor's: where a capture was unreadable, or the price could not be tied to a plan at all, no reading was recorded rather than a guess. See every price change we can stand behind.
Price held · 4 years
GitHub Team has cost $4/mo since July 2022.
11 readings of its own pricing page agree, starting from the July 2022 capture. How the award works
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GitHub alternatives
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Where GitHub sits on price
Entry prices across Developer Tools, cheapest first.
13 of these 13 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page. The median is taken across the 13 verified prices in Developer Tools. 1 more tool in this category does not publish an entry price and is not plotted. Showing the 10 cheapest.
GitHub pricing questions
- How much does GitHub cost?
- GitHub starts at $4 a month on its Team plan, billed monthly. That figure was read from github.com's own pricing page on 6 September 2026.
- Does GitHub have a free plan?
- Yes. GitHub publishes an ongoing free tier — not a countdown trial. Limits vary by plan, so check what the free tier covers before you commit.
- What is GitHub used for?
- Git hosting with pull requests, Actions CI, packages, security scanning and Copilot. Free for unlimited public and private repositories. People mainly use it to host code, review code, run ci, collaborate on code.
- What are the best alternatives to GitHub?
- The closest alternatives in the same category are Vercel, Supabase, Sentry, GitLab. Vercel, Supabase, Sentry and GitLab publish a free plan.