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About GitHub

GitHub is a developer tools tool for building and shipping software. In its own words: Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.

What the free plan gives you

Free plan with unlimited public and private repos. Taken from GitHub's own pricing page, the free plan includes the basics for individuals; and organizations; per user/month; join for free.

What it does

GitHub covers navigation Menu, gitHub features, gITHUB CUSTOMERS, code instantly from anywhere, review code changes together.

When you would pay

You may never need to. The free tier is not a funnel step here, so the sensible move is to use it until something it genuinely cannot do forces the question.

We list GitHub because the free plan was checked against its own pricing page, not because a vendor asked. If it has changed, tell us and we will re-check it.

Key Features

Navigation Menu

GitHub features

GITHUB CUSTOMERS

Code instantly from anywhere

Review code changes together

Fund open source projects

Footnotes

Site-wide Links

Pros & Cons

Free tier has no hard usage ceiling

Free plan limits are published clearly

Covers navigation Menu on the free plan

Free plan verified against the vendor's pricing page

Hosted only — no self-hosting escape hatch

The free plan in practice

What you can actually do on GitHub's free plan (Free plan with unlimited public and private repos), where it stops, and when it's worth paying.

What you can do free

The basics for individuals
and organizations
per user/month
Join for free
Unlimited public/private repositories
Dependabot security and version updates
2,000 CI/CD minutes/month
500MB of Packages storage

Where it stops

No major limitations beyond the plan's usage limits.

When to upgrade to a paid plan

Stay on the free plan while you're comfortably under the free plan's limit (Free plan with unlimited public and private repos). It's worth moving to a paid plan once you consistently bump into that ceiling, need to remove branding, or want features the free tier holds back.