GitHub pricing 2026: plans and costs
How AI answers describe GitHub pricing
However, Buildkite and GitHub Actions stand out for straightforward pricing, while CircleCI offers clearly published usage-based pricing.
Compared to: GitLab · Jenkins · CircleCI
- GitHub Actions: Free tier, then published per-user and per-minute pricing.
Quick pricing summary
- Free: $0 month
- Team: $4 user / month
- Enterprise: $21 user / month
- Worth noting: Free 30-day trial covers GitHub Enterprise, Copilot, and Advanced Security. Enterprise includes GitHub Copilot access. Actions minutes and Packages are free for public repositories.
Plans
Free
$0 month
- Unlimited public/private repositories
- Dependabot security and version updates
- 2,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 500MB of Packages storage
- Issues & Projects
- Community support
Team
$4 user / month
- Everything from Free
- 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
- 3,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 2GB of Packages storage
- Web-based support
Enterprise
$21 user / month
- Everything from Team
- GitHub Copilot access
- Agent governance
- Data residency
- Enterprise Managed Users
- User provisioning through SCIM
- Enterprise Account to centrally manage multiple organizations
- Environment protection rules
- Audit Log API
- SOC1, SOC2, type 2 reports annually
- FedRAMP Tailored ATO
- SAML single sign-on
- Advanced auditing
- GitHub Connect
- 50,000 CI/CD minutes/month
- 50GB of Packages storage
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Free | Team | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private repositories | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| GitHub Actions minutes | 2,000 minutes/month | 3,000 minutes/month | 50,000 minutes/month |
| GitHub Packages storage | 500 MB | 2GB | 50GB |
| GitHub Codespaces | $0 spend limit | Ability to increase spend limit | Ability to increase spend limit |
| Repository rules | Public repositories | ✓ | ✓ |
| Code owners | Public repositories | ✓ | ✓ |
| Draft pull requests | Public repositories | ✓ | ✓ |
| Environment protection rules | Public repositories | Public repositories | ✓ |
| Pages and wikis | Public repositories | ✓ | ✓ |
| Secret scanning | Public repositories | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom secret patterns | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| CodeQL | Public repositories | ✓ | ✓ |
| Copilot Autofix | Public repositories | ✓ | ✓ |
| Artifact attestations | Public repositories | Public repositories | ✓ |
| Audit log API | — | — | ✓ |
| SAML single sign-on (SSO) | — | — | ✓ |
| LDAP | — | — | ✓ |
| IP allow list | — | — | Enterprise Cloud |
| GitHub Connect | — | — | ✓ |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub Codespaces | Starting at $0.18 per hour of compute and $0.07 per GB of storage | All plans |
| Git Large File Storage | $5 per month for 50 GB bandwidth and 50 GB of storage | All plans |
| Premium support | Contact sales | Enterprise |
| GitHub Advanced Security | See pricing | Team, Enterprise |
| GitHub Secret Protection | See pricing | Team, Enterprise |
| GitHub Code Security | See pricing | Team, Enterprise |
| GitHub sandbox | Usage-based | All plans |
GitHub pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub | Free; paid from $4 per seat / mo | Yes | Per seat | — | |
| GitLab | Free; paid from $29 per seat / mo | Yes | Per seat | Scaling development teams and enterprises that need advanced security and compliance capabilities | Compare → |
| Jenkins | — | — | — | Developers who need to build, test and deploy software reliably | Compare → |
| CircleCI | Free; paid from $15 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Engineering teams that want fast, scalable CI/CD across cloud and self-hosted infrastructure, from startups to enterprises | Compare → |
| AWS | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
List prices as published on github.com/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.