Is GitHub free?
What GitHub actually gives you for free, where the paid tiers start to matter, and why most individual developers never need to pay for it.
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Yes, for the vast majority of individual use. The free tier includes unlimited public and private repositories with unlimited collaborators, 2,000 minutes per month of GitHub Actions automation on private repositories (Actions on public repositories is free, with no minute limit), 500 MB of package storage, and every core feature most developers actually use day to day: issues, pull requests, project boards, and GitHub Pages hosting.
What the paid tiers actually add
The paid plans mainly raise limits and add administrative tooling rather than unlocking anything essential. Pro, for individuals, doubles the Actions allowance to 3,000 minutes per month and increases storage. Team and Enterprise plans, aimed at organizations, add more of the same plus advanced code review and security tooling, and administrative controls for managing larger groups of people.
GitHub Copilot, the AI code completion tool, is a separate subscription from core GitHub itself. It has been free for verified students through the GitHub Student Developer Pack, though new sign-ups for that student plan have been paused since April 2026, and it remains free for maintainers of many popular open-source projects.
None of this changes what is available on the free tier for personal projects, learning, or a public portfolio. A solo developer building and hosting projects publicly is very unlikely to hit a wall that requires paying; even the Actions allowance only applies to private repositories, since automation on public repos does not draw down minutes at all.
When it is actually worth paying
Mostly a team and organization decision: needing private repositories with many collaborators at scale, running enough CI/CD on private repos to exhaust the monthly minute allowance, or requiring enterprise security and compliance features. Very few of these apply to an individual developer building a public portfolio of work.
What this means for using GitHub as a portfolio
Since public repositories, GitHub Pages, and Actions are all available for free, there is no cost barrier to building a genuinely useful public GitHub presence: real projects, a documented profile README, and a consistent contribution history.
Once that activity exists, resumefromgit.com reads it directly and turns it into a visual CV and a downloadable resume PDF, also for free and with no account required, working entirely from a public GitHub username.