--- description: Discover the benefits and disadvantages of GitHub. Learn the software price, see the description, and read the most helpful reviews for UK business users. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: GitHub Pricing, Cost & Reviews - Capterra UK 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [App Development Software](/directory/30082/application-development/software) > [GitHub](/software/129067/github) # GitHub Canonical: https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/129067/github Page: 1 / 249\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/129067/github?page=2) > GitHub enables development teams to collaborate, and review and manage code within a DevOps pipeline and built-in code security. > > Verdict: Rated **4.8/5** by 6187 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses GitHub? Development teams at startups and small businesses to Fortune 50 companies use GitHub, every step of the way. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.8/5** | 6187 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Microsoft - **Location**: Redmond, US - **Founded**: 1975 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$4.00 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Free (Basics for teams and developers) $0 per month Team (Advanced collaboration and support for teams): $4 per user / month Enterprise (Security, compliance, and flexible deployment for enterprises): $21 per user/month - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq and 27 more ## Features - Application Security - Automated Testing - Backlog Management - Bug Tracking - Bug/Issue Capture - Code Review - Collaboration Tools - Collaborative Development - Configuration Management - Continuous Delivery - Continuous Deployment - Continuous Integration - Dashboard - Debugging - File Sharing - Graphical User Interface - Integrated Development Environment - Issue Management - Issue Tracking - Milestone Tracking - Monitoring - Project Management - Quality Assurance - Real-Time Analytics - Release Management - Reporting/Project Tracking - Repository Management - Task Management - Task Progress Tracking - Ticket Management - Version Control - Vulnerability Scanning ## Integrations (14 total) - CircleCI - Git - Heroku - JIRA Service Management - Jenkins - Jira - Microsoft Azure - Microsoft Visual Studio - Netlify - Pivotal Tracker - Slack - Trello - Vercel - Visual Studio Code ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base ## Category - [App Development Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/30082/application-development/software) ## Related Categories - [App Development Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/30082/application-development/software) - [Source Code Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/31420/source-code-management/software) - [Nonprofit Project Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/32439/project-management-software-for-nonprofits/software) - [Project Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/30002/project-management/software) - [Continuous Integration Tools](https://www.capterra.co.uk/directory/31119/continuous-integration/software) ## Alternatives 1. [GitLab](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/159806/gitlab) — 4.6/5 (1223 reviews) 2. [Bitbucket](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/157785/bitbucket) — 4.6/5 (1346 reviews) 3. [Jira](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/19319/jira) — 4.4/5 (15417 reviews) 4. [Wrike](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/76113/wrike) — 4.4/5 (3023 reviews) 5. [ClickUp](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/158833/clickup) — 4.6/5 (4604 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Good tool for code management but lacks some features when integrating with Confluence/Jira" — 3.0/5 > **Mark** | *3 June 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: GitHub is a great tool to manage pull requests and being able to add labels in our teams helps to differentiate between urgent items which need reviews and are vital for the next release. > > **Cons**: One of the drawbacks with GitHub is integrating non development team members into a workflow process. Even though it is possible to setup a workflow too add approvers the terminology and UI is very developer based so can be a bit confusing to non development colleagues. > > Overall GItHub is a good tool for managing code, getting reviews and merging into the relevant branch ahead of deployment. There are some good integrations but it would be great if it could work more seamlessly with Confluence and Jira, and provide additional features to help automatically manage the correct states of the linked jira. ----- ### "Rock-solid for developing our museum apps, just a massive learning curve for the non-tech guys" — 5.0/5 > **Mark** | *12 June 2026* | Museums & Institutions | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: GitHub has sheer reliability as a central source of coder truth, especially when you are managing a diverse mix of projects. I work closely with a professional System Architect to manage our codebases, and the platform handles everything we throw at it flawlessly. Recently, we used it as a repository for hosting Mail Transfer Agent Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS), which demands total stability. But where it really shines for us is managing repositories for our in-house applications across completely different museum departments. We have repos dedicated to our Flight Sim \& VR Suite team, another for our Aviation Library team, and a separate one to catalogue our heritage collection. The version control is bulletproof, pull requests are intuitive, and it gives us a secure, centralised space to collaborate. Knowing the platform is fast, stable, and simply never falls over gives us massive peace of mind. > > **Cons**: While it is absolute perfection for me and our volunteer System Architect, the biggest challenge is the steep learning curve for everyone else. GitHub’s interface and terminology are fundamentally developer-centric. When you try to bring in non-technical volunteers or niche department teams—like the Admin guys managing physical library archives or setting up flight simulators—the UI can be incredibly intimidating. Concepts like branch merging, pull requests, and commit histories feel like a foreign language to them. GitHub has tried to simplify things over the years, but it still lacks a genuinely user-friendly, abstracted environment for non-developers who just need to collaborate on data or check progress. It takes a lot of hand-holding and internal training to get them comfortable, which slows down cross-department onboarding, especially for 100% non-profit organisation like ours. > > GitHub has been top-tier for me. It has allowed two technical leads to cleanly structure, secure, and oversee multiple developer pipelines for an entire aviation heritage organisation. It seamlessly bridges the gap between high-level infrastructure tasks, like deploying MTA-STS, and bespoke app development for our various museum sectors. The platform is incredibly robust, the hosting is rock-solid, and the security features—particularly the SSL and repo permissions—are exactly what you need when handling heritage data. It isn’t the easiest tool to introduce to non-technical staff or volunteers, and you will have to bridge that UI gap yourself. However, as a core repository system and collaboration engine, it is completely unmatched. It keeps our projects organised, secure, and moving forward in the current, lightning speed of coding in this Singularity of AI. ----- ### "Great community and place for collaborating development code" — 5.0/5 > **Ben** | *21 April 2025* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: I liked how easy it was to upload and contribute to code produced by your own team, or other teams that have produced code that you are also using. > > **Cons**: I did not like the monitoring systems that GitHub used for correction of code or trying to stop you from doing something. > > My overall experience with GitHub was good, and we are continuing to use it for any development work when our team requires it. ----- ### "Perfect for all sizes of projects" — 5.0/5 > **🧑‍💻 Owain** | *6 April 2026* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: I enjoy working with GitHub due to its ease of use and that so many people use it so there are tons of online resources available if you get stuck trying to set something up > > **Cons**: Sometimes swapping between repos can be cumbersome. If you have multiple organisations it's not always a smooth transition between repos > > I enjoy working with GitHub so much that we've recently migrated all our bitbucket repos to GitHub. It's great that we can keep client repos private but still show our activity on our own personal accounts ----- ### "Github gets a thumbs up" — 5.0/5 > **Tony** | *22 September 2025* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Having used git locally for quite some time, github seemed the natural progression. I've tried other systems (BitBucket and GitLab and many many years ago SourceSafe which wasnt online, it was a LAN based product). I used github prior to its purchase by Microsoft and was pleased to see that whereas previously private repo's needed a paid account, since Microsofts purchase, you can now have private repo's on their free service. Recently I've started getting into CI/CD and so have been getting involved in the Actions service, which gives you build time on their servers for deployment. I'd used AWS previously for CI/CD and found the Github actions were far easier to set up and they provide a reasonable amount of processor minutes per month for free which I haven't yet breached so it's a free service there too\! Not only is it a remote repository for tracking changes and allowing multiple people to develop in the same system, it also provides a remote offsite backup of your source. As far as value for money is concerned, its brilliant because it's free but even if you go for the paid option, the last time I checked it was about £7 a month > > **Cons**: The secret variables that you can create in actions are a "write once, never see them again" system. Variables can be used in Actions to control what you want the build script to do based on which branch you are in - ie one variable might be created for the master branch for live builds and another for staging or dev builds. I know they are secrets but sometimes it can be really helpful to check what the value is to try to debug what might be happening in the build process (even if you echo the value during the build process, most of the output is replaced with \*\*\*\*). It would be useful to require re-entry of username/password and 2fa details and to then be shown the details - even if each variable needed to go through the same process > > Overall its a good system, the best source control system I've used and whenever you search online for code, its github that tends to be the place other people use to store their open source contributions - you don't often see others being used, although I have seen GitLab more than anything else. ----- Page: 1 / 249\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/129067/github?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.co.uk/software/129067/github) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | ja | | | ko | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pl | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | | tr | | ----- ## Structured Data