GitHub Pricing 2026: The Complete Breakdown
GitHub's seat pricing looks simple — Free, $4/user Team, $21/user Enterprise — and that simplicity is exactly what makes the real invoice a surprise. Copilot, Actions minutes, and security add-ons are billed separately, and for an active team they typically dwarf the base subscription.
The quick answer
GitHub has three core plans: Free ($0, unlimited public and private repos, not a trial), Team ($4/user/month), and Enterprise Cloud (from $21/user/month, first-year promotional rate — renews at standard pricing after 12 months). GitHub Pro, at $4/month, is the individual-account equivalent of Team's features for a single developer.
The seat price is genuinely the smallest number on most real GitHub bills. Copilot, Actions minutes beyond the included allowance, Advanced Security features, and package storage/egress are all billed on top, separately.
Every GitHub plan, broken down
- Unlimited public and private repos
- 2,000 included Actions minutes/mo
- Not a trial — permanent tier
- Individual account, advanced tools
- 3,000 included Actions minutes/mo
- Best for serious solo developers
- Organization-level collaboration
- 3,000 included Actions minutes/mo
- Draft PRs, code owners, protected branches
- 50,000 included Actions minutes/mo
- SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning
- Enterprise account governing multiple orgs
Pricing confirmed against GitHub's official pricing and billing documentation as of late August 2026. GitHub's advertised Team and Enterprise rates are first-12-month promotional prices in some regions — confirm your renewal rate directly, since several billed-add-on rates (Copilot allowances, in particular) changed mid-2026.
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GitHub is one line item. The real problem is usually bigger.
If you landed on this page trying to figure out what GitHub actually costs your team, there's a good chance GitHub isn't the only tool where that question is hard to answer. This is where ProcurementVMS comes in — we help growing companies get visibility into exactly this kind of software spend before it becomes an expensive surprise.
Copilot spend is invisible until the invoice arrives
Per-seat Copilot licenses plus metered premium-model overage aren't tracked anywhere finance can see until the monthly bill lands.
Security add-ons get approved without a total-cost comparison
Code Security and Secret Protection get added seat by seat over time, without anyone comparing that running total to what Enterprise's included coverage would have cost instead.
Nobody re-checks the promotional-rate expiration
A Team or Enterprise account signed at a first-year promotional rate can renew at a meaningfully higher price with no internal flag raised.
Multiple orgs on the same GitHub account structure
Engineering, a data team, and an acquired company's dev team each run their own GitHub organization with separate billing, with no single view of total spend.
What actually fixes this
None of the problems above are about GitHub specifically — they're what happens to any recurring software cost once more than one person in the company has a reason to touch it. The fix isn't a smarter spreadsheet. It's a system built specifically to answer three questions on demand: what are we paying for, who owns it, and when does it renew.
- Vendor-level spend visibility — every software cost rolled up by vendor, not buried in a general ledger category
- Automatic renewal tracking — a real alert before the auto-renewal window closes, not a Post-it note
- Clear ownership — one accountable person per vendor relationship, so "should we keep this" is someone's actual job
- Consolidated procurement — one path for requesting and approving a new software seat, so duplicate purchases stop happening by accident
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Common questions about GitHub pricing
GitHub Free is $0. Pro and Team are each $4 per user per month. GitHub Enterprise Cloud starts at $21 per user per month, sometimes shown as a first-12-month promotional rate that renews at standard pricing afterward.
No. Copilot is billed as a separate, per-seat add-on subscription on top of your GitHub plan, and heavy use of premium AI models can add metered, per-message charges beyond an included monthly allowance.
Beyond the $4 vs $21 seat price, Enterprise includes far more Actions minutes (50,000 vs 3,000), SSO/SCIM provisioning, and — depending on team size — can be more cost-effective than Team plus separately-purchased security add-ons.
The most common way is metered costs (Copilot, Actions overage, security add-ons, storage egress) accumulating without anyone tracking them against the base subscription. A vendor spend platform that captures usage-based charges, not just flat fees, is the most reliable way to see the real total.
Sources & editorial disclosure
Pricing and plan details were cross-checked against GitHub's official pricing page and billing documentation as of late August 2026. ProcurementVMS is not affiliated with GitHub and does not accept payment for placement in this guide. Software pricing changes frequently and without notice — always confirm current figures directly with GitHub before budgeting or signing a contract.