GitHub Pricing 2026

Quick Plan Overview

Full Feature Comparison Table

A comprehensive side-by-side comparison of every GitHub plan. Scroll horizontally on mobile.

GitHub Free ($0)

GitHub Free is the foundation of the GitHub experience. Every GitHub account starts here, and for many developers, it's all they'll ever need. You get unlimited public and private repositories, 2,000 GitHub Actions minutes per month for private repos (unlimited for public), and 500 MB of GitHub Packages storage.

The Free plan supports all core GitHub features: pull requests, issues, projects, wikis, discussions, and Dependabot security alerts. Where it has limitations is in advanced code review workflows for private repos — features like required reviewers, code owners, and branch protection rules only apply to public repositories on the Free plan. If your team collaborates primarily on private code and needs to enforce review policies, you'll need to upgrade.

Best for: Individual developers, open-source contributors, students, and small projects that don't need advanced access control or code review enforcement on private repos.

GitHub Pro ($4/month)

GitHub Pro unlocks the full set of GitHub features for individual developers. The biggest change from Free is that you get advanced code review and branch protection on private repositories — required reviewers, code owners via CODEOWNERS files, branch protection rules, and required status checks all work on your private repos.

You also get 3,000 Actions minutes per month (up from 2,000) and 2 GB of Packages storage (up from 500 MB). Pro adds a profile badge and GitHub Pages with a custom domain (though Pages is now available on Free as well).

Best for: Individual developers or freelancers working on private repositories who need proper code review workflows, branch protection, and extra CI/CD minutes. If you're the only person on a personal project, Pro gives you useful guardrails.

GitHub Team ($4/user/month)

GitHub Team is the first tier designed for organizations. It includes everything in Pro, but at an organization level — meaning you get team-based access controls, the ability to assign fine-grained permissions to different teams, and organization-level features like repository insights.

Team adds several collaboration features that matter for growing engineering teams: scheduled reminders for pull requests (nudge reviewers via Slack or Teams), deployment protection rules, and GitHub-hosted larger runners for CI/CD. You also get access to secret scanning and code scanning on private repos, which are critical for maintaining code security.

At $4 per user per month, Team is priced identically to Pro on a per-person basis but adds organizational controls that become essential once you have more than two or three developers. The 3,000 Actions minutes are shared across the organization.

Best for: Startups, small-to-medium engineering teams, and organizations that need team-based access controls, code security scanning, and structured PR review workflows without the compliance overhead of Enterprise.

GitHub Enterprise Pricing ($21/user/month)

GitHub Enterprise is built for large organizations with strict security, compliance, and governance requirements. At $21 per user per month, it's the most expensive tier — but it includes features that are non-negotiable for regulated industries, large corporations, and companies with complex identity management needs.

The headline Enterprise features are SAML single sign-on (SSO) for centralized authentication, SCIM provisioning for automated user management, comprehensive audit logs for compliance, IP allow lists for network security, and Enterprise Managed Users for full identity control. You also get GitHub Advanced Security included (which is a paid add-on for Team), providing advanced code scanning, secret scanning with push protection, and dependency review.

Enterprise comes with a massive 50,000 Actions minutes per month and 50 GB of Packages storage. GitHub also offers a 60-day free trial so organizations can evaluate before committing.

GitHub Enterprise is available in two deployment options: Enterprise Cloud (hosted by GitHub) and Enterprise Server (self-hosted). Enterprise Server gives organizations full control over their GitHub instance, running on their own infrastructure or cloud provider.

Best for: Large enterprises, regulated industries (finance, healthcare, government), organizations requiring SSO/SCIM, companies with compliance audit requirements, and teams that need self-hosted deployment options.

GitHub Pull Request Features by Plan

Pull requests are the backbone of modern code review and collaboration on GitHub. However, the pull request features you get depend significantly on your plan — and whether your repository is public or private. Here's a detailed breakdown of what each plan offers for PR workflows.

Code Review Enforcement

On the Free plan, features like required reviewers and branch protection rules only work on public repositories. This means any private repo on Free can have pull requests merged without a single review. Starting with Pro, you can enforce required reviews, set up CODEOWNERS files to auto-assign reviewers, and require status checks to pass before merging — even on private repos.

Draft Pull Requests

Draft pull requests are available on all plans and allow developers to open a PR that signals "work in progress." Draft PRs can't be merged until marked as ready for review, making them useful for getting early feedback without triggering your merge workflow.

Scheduled Reminders

GitHub Team and Enterprise plans offer scheduled reminders that can nudge team members about pending pull request reviews via Slack or Microsoft Teams. This is a built-in way to reduce review latency, but it only supports scheduled intervals — not real-time notifications.

Staying on Top of Pull Requests

Regardless of your GitHub plan, one of the biggest challenges for engineering teams is staying on top of pull request activity — new PRs opened, reviews requested, CI checks passing or failing, and PRs getting merged. GitHub's built-in notification system sends emails and shows a notification bell, but most developers find this noisy and easy to miss.

For teams that live in Slack, a dedicated GitHub-to-Slack integration for pull requests can dramatically improve response times and reduce the cycle time from PR opened to PR merged. PullNotifier sends real-time Slack notifications for GitHub pull request events — new PRs, review requests, approvals, comments, CI status changes, and merges — so your team never misses a beat. It works with every GitHub plan, from Free to Enterprise.

Add-on Costs

GitHub Copilot Pricing

GitHub Advanced Security

GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) is included free for public repositories on all plans and included in Enterprise. For Team plan organizations with private repos, GHAS is available as an add-on at $49 per active committer per month. GHAS includes code scanning with CodeQL, secret scanning with push protection, and dependency review.

Additional Actions Minutes & Storage

If you exceed your plan's included Actions minutes, additional minutes cost $0.008/minute for Linux, $0.016/minute for Windows, and $0.08/minute for macOS. Additional Packages storage costs $0.008 per GB per day beyond your plan's included storage.

Which GitHub Plan Should You Choose?

Here's a quick decision guide based on your situation:

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