GitHub pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
GitHub (github.com) is a code hosting & CI tool. Per-user plans (Free, Team, Enterprise) with included Actions minutes and storage; extra Actions minutes billed per minute by runner type.. Free plan: Free: unlimited public/private repos and collaborators, 2,000 Actions min/mo, 500MB Packages; branch rules on public repos only.
What GitHub costs
- 10 developers: $40/mo (Team $4/user/mo x 10 = $40; Free cannot enforce required reviewers on private repos)
- 10k Linux min: $48/mo (Free plan: 2,000 included min + 8,000 x $0.006 Linux 2-core = $48 (Team: $40 + 7,000 x $0.006 = $82))
- 1k macOS min: $49.60/mo (Free plan, 3 members: 2,000 included min / 10x macOS multiplier = 200 min; 800 x $0.062 = $49.60 (Team would be $12 + 700 x $0.062 = $55.40))
Plan compared: Team. Every price is for a 10-developer team on the cheapest monthly plan that covers the job (for Git hosts, private repos where a merge needs an approving review), with CI usage priced separately at 10,000 Linux minutes and 1,000 macOS minutes a month, seats and overage included. Free plans count when they cover the whole scenario and allow private, commercial use.
What GitHub does
Core: Team admin and analytics, Private Git repositories, Pull request code review, Hosted CI pipelines, Runs GitHub Actions, Merge queue & PR workflow, Open-source community.
Important: Background cloud agents, Web and mobile access, Slack and issue triggers, AI pull request review, Privacy and compliance, Open source or self-hosted, Self-hosted runners, Package & container registry, Deployment management (partly), Issues & planning, Code security scanning, Integrations marketplace, SSO, audit & compliance (partly), Static code analysis (partly), Dependency vulnerability scanning (partly), Secret detection, Automated fixes.
Also has: Agentic coding tool, Codebase indexing, AI-native code editor (partly), Terminal agent (CLI) (partly), Multi-lab model choice, MCP tool connections (partly), Rules, commands and subagents, Plan and spec mode (partly), Built-in browser testing, Design to code, Hosted macOS builds, Mobile beta distribution (partly), Remote build caching (partly), Test run analytics (partly), Self-managed edition (partly), Mobile app, Malicious package detection (partly), License compliance & SBOM, Engineering metrics & DORA (partly), AI test generation, IDE & pre-commit checks (partly), Multi-platform Git support (partly), Self-hosting & open source (partly), Compliance & audit reporting (partly).
GitHub price hikes
No price hikes on record for GitHub.
Alternatives to GitHub
GitHub is the cheapest code hosting & CI tool we track at a 10-developer team. The others:
GitHub alternatives: 2 code hosting & CI tools compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Jan 2026 · Price cut: GitHub-hosted runner rates were cut: Linux 2-core from $0.008 to $0.006 per minute and macOS from $0.08 to $0.062 per minute.
- Apr 14, 2020 · Price cut: GitHub made private repos with unlimited collaborators free and cut the Team plan from $9 to $4 per user per month.
Sources
Pricing page: github.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Plan prices from github.com/pricing and runner rates from GitHub Docs (Oct 2026); the pricing page shows Team/Enterprise prices 'for the first 12 months*' with an unexpanded footnote. The 10x macOS multiplier on included minutes is assumed from GitHub's long-standing rules; the docs now list only per-minute rates. Price-change web search was unavailable (search budget exhausted).