In the previous blog we would have seen what GitHub is, who started this project and how it evolved over time. We discussed about how it is different from Git, even though GitHub is created from Git, it provides lot of other functionalities for carry out DevOps practices. We also discussed about different variants of GitHub product like it comes with free version, Team and Enterprise.

In this blog we will go through in detail about different variants of GitHub product available for individuals, teams and organizations and also difference between GitHub Enterprise Cloud and Server. GitHub offers free and paid products. Based on the need of the features and level of support, the Organizations and Teams can choose from available plans.

With GitHub Free option for individuals, we can have unlimited collaborators on our unlimited public repositories with a full feature set, and on unlimited private repositories with a limited feature set.

With GitHub Free provides following features:

• GitHub Community Support
• Security alerts
• Two-factor authentication enforcement
• 2,000 GitHub Actions minutes
• 500MB GitHub Packages storage

With GitHub Free option for organizations, in addition to the features available with GitHub Free for user accounts, GitHub Free for organizations includes:

• GitHub Community Support
• Team discussions
• Team access controls for managing groups
• 2,000 GitHub Actions minutes
• 500MB GitHub Packages storage

The above were free options. When it comes to purchasing GitHub has 4 options Pro, Teams, Enterprise which consists of Server and Cloud and lastly GitHub One which includes all the features, capabilities of Enterprise plus extra options. Let us check the plans for purchasing.

GitHub Pro (formerly GitHub Developer): In addition to the features available with GitHub Free for user accounts, GitHub Pro includes:

• GitHub Support via email
• 3,000 GitHub Actions minutes
• 2GB GitHub Packages storage
• Advanced tools and insights in private repositories:
• Required pull request reviewers
• Multiple pull request reviewers
• Auto-linked references
• GitHub Pages
• Wikis
• Protected branches
• Code owners
• Repository insights graphs: Pulse, contributors, traffic, commits, code frequency, network, and forks

GitHub Team

In addition to the features available with GitHub Free, GitHub Team includes following feature sets and support:

• GitHub Support via email
• 10,000 GitHub Actions minutes (Starting May 14, 2020, organizations using GitHub Team will include 3,000 free Actions minutes per month for use in private repositories.)
• 2GB GitHub Packages storage
• Advanced tools and insights in private repositories:
  • Required pull request reviewers
  • Multiple pull request reviewers
  • GitHub Pages
  • Wikis
  • Protected branches
  • Code owners
  • Repository insights graphs: Pulse, contributors, traffic, commits, code frequency, network, and forks
  • Draft pull requests
  • Team pull request reviewers
  • Scheduled reminders

GitHub Actions which is a CI CD feature from GitHub is free for public repositories. For private repositories, each GitHub account receives a certain number of free minutes and storage, depending on the product used with the account.

GitHub Enterprise

GitHub Enterprise also comes with two deployment options: we can use cloud-hosted GitHub Enterprise Cloud that is SaaS offering from GitHub or self-hosted that is commission GitHub Enterprise Server on our Infrastructure of choice.

GitHub Enterprise includes all the features available in GitHub Team plus extra features and support options.

• GitHub Enterprise Support
• Additional security, compliance, and deployment controls
• Authentication with SAML single sign-on
• Access provisioning with SAML or SCIM
• GitHub Connect

GitHub Enterprise Cloud also includes:

• GitHub Enterprise Support
• 50,000 GitHub Actions minutes
• 50GB GitHub Packages storage
• A service level agreement for 99.95% monthly uptime
• The option to centrally manage policy and billing for multiple GitHub.com organizations with an enterprise account.

GitHub One

GitHub One includes GitHub Enterprise, plus:

• GitHub Support Premium Plus plan / GitHub Engineering Direct
• GitHub Insights
• Advanced Security
• Automated Code Scanning
• GitHub Learning Lab for organizations

You can reach out to us to set up a trial/demo GitHub Cloud/Sever to evaluate capabilities of GitHub Enterprise for implementing DevOps practices in your Organization or Teams.

For more information GitHub pricing our purchase options you can reach out to us or refer the GitHub Pricing page here.