GitHub Pricing Plans

What is the difference between GitHub’s Team and Enterprise?

The Team and Enterprise pricing plans are both designed for collaborative development, but they serve very different needs in terms of scale, security, and control.

At $4 per user/month, the Team plan gives small to mid-sized teams access to critical features like branch protection, repository insights, and email support. It also includes 3,000 GitHub Actions minutes and 2 GB of package storage—enough for many teams working on internal or client projects. For an additional $19 per user/month, you can integrate GitHub Copilot Business, which brings AI-assisted coding and admin policy controls to help streamline workflows.

For larger organizations, the Enterprise plan provides all of that—and then some. Priced at $21 per user/month, it’s built to support companies that need enterprise-grade security, compliance, and scalability. You’ll get SAML single sign-on, audit log streaming, and IP allow lists to lock things down at the organizational level. Plus, you’re bumped up to 50,000 GitHub Actions minutes and 50 GB of package storage, making it a better fit for teams with complex CI/CD pipelines or heavy automation usage.

There’s also GitHub Advanced Security, an optional add-on that brings code scanning, secret detection, and dependency reviews. And if your team is going all-in on AI, GitHub Copilot Enterprise ($39/user/month) layers in organization-wide controls with intelligent, security-aware code suggestions.



In a nutshell, if your team is mostly focused on collaboration without high compliance demands, the Team pricing plan delivers great value. But if your company is scaling fast and needs to enforce security at every level, the Enterprise plan is worth the investment.

What is the difference between GitHub’s Free and Team?

The key distinctions between GitHub’s Free and Team pricing plans involve how your group operates and how much control you would like to have over collaboration, code review, and automation.

The Free plan has a cost of nothing per user, which includes a decent set of features when you get started. You benefit from unlimited repositories-public or private-along with 2,000 GitHub Actions minutes each month, which is more than enough time for very basic automation functions like testing and deployments. Depending on what you have happening, it’s a suitable option when you are a solo developer, running a hobby project, or when it is an early-stage team that does not yet need granular controls over workflows. You receive community-based support, which can be useful, it might not be the fastest way to obtain answers. GitHub Copilot is not included in the Free plan, however, individuals can add it for $10 per month and be able to leverage AI-generated suggestions when coding, which can be very useful to speed up development or learn specific new code patterns.



The Team plan, priced at $4 per user per month, provides an additional layer of structure, which may be appropriate for a team that is making regular delivery, and needs features that facilitate supporting the quality of code as well as team collaboration. The Team plan builds on everything in the Free plan and adds pull request requirements, branch protections rules, and additional repository insights. These features not only add controls that helps teams, but they help teams avoid errors, feature protections for code quality, and various means to collaborate. You still get 3,000 Actions minutes per month, and 2GB of package storage, which offers teams a bit more room as projects gain momentum/take off.

If in the future you think your team would like to use GitHub Copilot at the team level, there is an additional level-up GitHub Copilot Business that you could add to your Team plan subscription for $19 per user/month. This option is geared toward larger codebases and offers centralized policy controls, smarter security-aware AI suggestions, and lots of flexibility for teams.

So if you are a one-person show, or just getting started putting things together, the Free pricing plan has more than enough to assist you in getting out there. But if you are on a team, and need tighter collaboration tools, increased automation capacity and the ability to grow your team with AI support, the Team pricing plan provides a more structured environment to grow into without overwhelming you with enterprise plans that may be too complex.

Does GitHub have a free plan?

Yes, GitHub does have a free plan, and it’s surprisingly capable considering there’s no cost involved. Whether you're an individual developer experimenting on a side project or a small team collaborating on something new, the Free plan gives you plenty to work with. You can create unlimited public and private repositories, collaborate with others, and access basic project management tools without paying a cent.

For individuals, the free plan includes useful features like Dependabot alerts to catch vulnerable dependencies, 2,000 minutes of GitHub Actions per month to automate workflows, and 120 core hours of GitHub Codespaces, which lets you spin up cloud-based development environments. You’ll also get 500 MB of storage for GitHub Packages, which is fine for lighter use cases.

If you’re part of an organization, the free plan includes essential team access controls and the same limits on Actions minutes and package storage. It’s suitable if your team is just getting started and doesn’t need complex permissions or automation at scale yet.

All in all, GitHub’s free plan lays down a solid foundation for software development. It’s more than enough for hobby projects, learning Git, or getting a new idea off the ground. As your needs grow, you’ll have the option to move to more advanced plans, but you won’t feel boxed in early on.