by GitHub (Microsoft)Code hosting and CI
Code hosting and GitHub Actions CI at $4 per user a month on Team, with 3,000 CI minutes and a free plan with unlimited private collaborators.
Private repositories, pull request reviews and 3,000 CI minutes for $4 per user, with a free plan that has no user cap.
GitHub Team costs $4 per user a month and includes 3,000 GitHub Actions minutes, so the reference team of 10 pays $40 with no overage. The free plan has unlimited private collaborators and 2,000 minutes. Enterprise, from $21 per user, adds SAML SSO, data residency in the EU, Australia, the US or Japan, SOC 2 Type 2 reports and GitHub Enterprise Server, so one plan covers cloud and self-managed.
Against 3 other products we reviewed in Code hosting and CI: what you pay for with each, the five access facts, the plan limits we recorded and each review's bottom line. The note under the table says how each one was checked.
| Metric | GitHub | Azure DevOps | GitLab | Bitbucket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you're paying for | Worth the pricePrivate repositories, pull request reviews and 3,000 CI minutes for $4 per user, with a free plan that has no user cap. | Worth the priceGit hosting, CI and boards free for 5 users, with an audit log, EU data location and Entra ID sign-in on every plan. | Saves engineering timeCode hosting, CI with 10,000 minutes, SAML SSO, audit events and approval rules in one $29 Premium seat, also available self-managed. | Built-in reachGit hosting with built-in CI and Jira integration on every plan, from $3.65 per user a month. |
| Overall score | 9.2Best | 8.2 | 7.2 | 6.2 |
| Free option | Free plan | Free plan | Free plan | Free plan |
| Card to start | –Not measured | No card needed | No card needed | –Not measured |
| Getting access | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve | Self-serve |
| Starter priceCheapest paid plan | $4/user/mo | $6/user/mo | $29/user/mo | $3.65/user/mo |
| Pricing model | Per seat | Per seat | Per seat | Per seat |
| Pricing page | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices | Public prices |
| Billing units | Users, plus CI minutes beyond the plan | Users after the first 5, plus parallel CI jobs | Users, plus compute minutes beyond the plan | Users, plus build minutes beyond the plan |
| Free plan | Unlimited users, 2,000 CI minutes/mo | 5 users, 1,800 CI minutes/mo | 5 users per private group, 400 CI minutes/mo | Up to 5 users, 50 build minutes/mo |
| 10 developers, 3,000 CI minutes/mo | $40 (Team) | $70 (Basic plus one hosted parallel job) | $290 (Premium, billed annually) | $46.50 (Standard plus 1,000 minutes) |
| CI minutes on the entry paid plan | 3,000/mo; then $0.006/min (Linux 2-core) | 1,800/mo; a $40 hosted job removes the limit | 10,000/mo; then $10 per 1,000 | 2,500/mo; then $10 per 1,000 |
| Security scanning add-ons | Secret Protection $19 and Code Security $30 per active committer/mo | Code Security $30 and Secret Protection $19 per committer/mo | Basic SAST and secret detection in all tiers; full scanning in Ultimate (custom price) | None listed; Code insights shows third-party results |
| SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 | Both (SOC 2 Type 2 report listed on Enterprise) | Both | Both | Both (Bitbucket Cloud in scope) |
| EU data residency | Enterprise (GHE.com: EU, Australia, US, Japan) | Europe chosen when creating the organization | GitLab Dedicated (region of your choice), by demo | Bitbucket not listed for data residency |
| SAML SSO | Enterprise (from $21/user/mo) | Microsoft Entra ID sign-in, all plans | Premium | Atlassian Guard add-on ($3/user/mo at 10 users) |
| Self-managed version | GitHub Enterprise Server, covered by Enterprise | Azure DevOps Server, at listed prices | Free, Premium ($29) and Ultimate | Data Center: not sold to new customers |
| Bottom line | From its public pages, GitHub lists the lowest price here for 10 developers and covers the scenario on its $4 Team plan. SAML SSO starts on Enterprise, and scanning is an add-on. | From its public pages, Azure DevOps puts an audit log, EU data location and Entra ID sign-in on every plan and covers our team for $70. CI is bought as parallel jobs, and the free minutes need a linked Azure subscription. | From its public pages, GitLab includes the most CI minutes and team controls in its entry paid plan, at the highest listed price here for 10 developers. Full scanning sits in Ultimate, priced by sales. | From its public pages, Bitbucket has the lowest per-user price here and Jira integration on every plan. SSO and audit logs come through Atlassian Guard, and there is no data residency or new self-managed option. |
Evidence: GitHub: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Azure DevOps: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; GitLab: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run; Bitbucket: facts checked 2026-10-15 from its public sign-up and pricing pages, no completed hands-on run. Prices in USD as listed, excluding tax. "–" means not recorded.
Review from public pages
Written from GitHub's public pages (pricing, security or privacy, and docs) as read on Oct 15, 2026. We did not sign up, and no hands-on run is published yet.
We read GitHub's pricing page, the GitHub Actions billing docs, the Advanced Security page, the compliance-report and data residency docs on Oct 15, 2026; we did not sign up for this review. The pricing page shows three plans priced per user a month: Free ($0), Team ($4) and Enterprise (from $21), with 2,000, 3,000 and 50,000 CI/CD minutes. Public repositories use standard runners at no charge.
The billing docs add the per-minute rates beyond the quota: $0.006 for the standard 2-core Linux runner, $0.010 for Windows and $0.062 for macOS. Builds on your own runners are free. Without a payment method on file, usage stops at the quota. One detail we did not expect: each Copilot code review on a private repository also uses Actions minutes.
Security scanning is sold separately: Secret Protection costs $19 and Code Security $30 per active committer a month. The data residency docs list EU, Australia, US and Japan regions on GHE.com, reached through the Enterprise plan and its 30-day trial. Organizations on any plan can download the SOC 3 report and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate; the pricing page lists SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type 2 reports on Enterprise.
Team covers 10 developers and 3,000 Linux minutes for $40 a month.
vs Bitbucket: Bitbucket Standard comes to $46.50 with 1,000 extra minutes; GitLab Premium is $290 billed annually.
Unlimited private collaborators and 2,000 CI minutes a month.
vs Bitbucket: GitLab and Bitbucket cap free private workspaces at 5 users, with 400 and 50 minutes.
Beyond the quota, the standard 2-core Linux runner costs $0.006 a minute, or $6 per 1,000; hosted Windows and macOS runners are priced too.
Enterprise, from $21 per user, lists data residency, with EU, Australia, US and Japan regions on GHE.com.
vs Bitbucket: GitLab offers a region of your choice through Dedicated, sold by demo; Atlassian does not list Bitbucket for data residency.
The docs for Free and Team organizations describe an audit log covering the last 180 days; the Audit Log API is on Enterprise.
Team has no SAML SSO; Enterprise starts at $21 per user, about five times the Team price.
Workaround: Enterprise also brings 50,000 minutes, data residency and Enterprise Server.
Secret Protection ($19) and Code Security ($30) are add-ons; for 10 active committers on Team that adds $490 a month.
On private repositories, each Copilot code review draws on the plan’s Actions minutes, then on paid minutes.
The billing docs say larger runners are charged even in public repositories and when included quota remains.
GitHub bills per user a month, plus CI minutes beyond the plan: Free $0 (2,000 minutes), Team $4 (3,000), Enterprise from $21 (50,000). Extra minutes cost $0.006 on the 2-core Linux runner, $0.010 on Windows and $0.062 on macOS; self-hosted runners are free.
For 10 developers and 3,000 Linux minutes, Team is 10 × $4 = $40 a month. With SAML SSO it becomes Enterprise: 10 × $21 = $210. Adding Secret Protection and Code Security for 10 active committers adds 10 × ($19 + $30) = $490. Codespaces and Git LFS are billed separately.
Self-managed is part of the Enterprise plan: the data residency docs say it covers GHE.com and, if you need it, GitHub Enterprise Server. GitLab’s pricing FAQ says GitLab imports projects from GitHub.
From its public pages, GitHub lists the lowest price here for 10 developers and covers the scenario on its $4 Team plan. SAML SSO starts on Enterprise, and scanning is an add-on.
| Limit | As recorded |
|---|---|
| Billing units | Users, plus CI minutes beyond the plan |
| Free plan | Unlimited users, 2,000 CI minutes/mo |
| 10 developers, 3,000 CI minutes/mo | $40 (Team) |
| CI minutes on the entry paid plan | 3,000/mo; then $0.006/min (Linux 2-core) |
| Security scanning add-ons | Secret Protection $19 and Code Security $30 per active committer/mo |
| SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 | Both (SOC 2 Type 2 report listed on Enterprise) |
| EU data residency | Enterprise (GHE.com: EU, Australia, US, Japan) |
| SAML SSO | Enterprise (from $21/user/mo) |
| Self-managed version | GitHub Enterprise Server, covered by Enterprise |
Read from the vendor's public pages on Oct 15, 2026. No hands-on run is published yet. How we check
We have not published a sign-up run for GitHub yet. The access facts above were read from its sign-up and pricing pages on Oct 15, 2026.
We have not published API calls for GitHub yet.
GitHub lists 4 plans. The cheapest paid plan, Team, costs $4/user/mo.
Prices as listed, USD, excluding tax; observed 2026-10-15.
Source: github.com pricing page. Prices change; the observed date above is when our agent read them.
We read the pricing, security and docs pages of three code hosting and CI services on the same day and scored them on the same six indicators. How each one bills, what 10 developers and 3,000 CI minutes cost, and who should pick which.
