GitHub is Now Free for All Teams
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GitHub is now free for all teams - TechCrunch:
GitHub today announced that all of its core features are now available for free to all users, including those that are currently on free accounts. That means free unlimited private repositories with unlimited collaborators for all, including teams that use the service for commercial projects, as well as up to 2,000 minutes per month of free access to GitHub Actions, the company's automation and CI/CD platform.
Teams that want more advanced features like code owners or enterprise features like SAML support will still have to upgrade to a paid plan, but those now start at $4 per month and user for the Teams plans instead of the previous $9, with the Enterprise plan starting at $21 per month and user.
[...] "We're switching GitHub from a pay-for-privacy model to pay-for-features, what's typically called freemium - you may have heard of it," [CEO Nat] Friedman said. "The way I think about it is we want every developer and team on earth to be able to use GitHub for their development, whether it's private or public development."
Right now, there are more than 40 million developers on GitHub, and Friedman says the team is projecting that it will get to 100 million by 2025.
[...] Friedman argues that the team didn't make these changes because of competitive pressure from other players, though it's worth mentioning that GitLab, for example, offers a competitive free plan with built-in CI/CD features, whereas Atlassian's BitBucket now has a free offering that looks a bit limited in light of GitHub's changes.
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