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>>ig0r0+(OP)
Hi HN, I'm the CEO of GitHub. Everyone at GitHub is really excited about this announcement, and I'm happy to answer any questions.

We've wanted to make this change for the last 18 months, but needed our Enterprise business to be big enough to enable the free use of GitHub by the rest of the world. I'm happy to say that it's grown dramatically in the last year, and so we're able to make GitHub free for teams that don't need Enterprise features.

We also retained our Team pricing plan for people who need email support (and a couple of other features like code owners).

In general we think that every developer on earth should be able to use GitHub for their work, and so it is great to remove price as a barrier.

>>natfri+V2
Hey Nat, thank you so much for this! We're a small team from India and we love Github but were always conflicted due to the pricing.

The new flat price of $4/user seems perfect for us. I've already moved one private repo to our org account.

Thanks again ^_^

>>oxalor+cb
Just curious what motivates you to pick the $4 plan over free? None of the features there are really deal-breaking for most orgs.

- Required reviewers

- 3,000 Actions minutes/month (Free for public repositories)

- 2GB of GitHub Packages storage (Free for public repositories)

- Code owners

>>captn3+Ic
If you check the extended breakdown down the https://github.com/pricing page below the marketing bits, lots of features are not available on private repos unless you're paying for a Teams plan. Depending how you use github it could be an issue:

* protected branches

* codeowners

* draft PRs

* pages and wikis

* multiple assignees (PRs and issues)

* required reviews & status checks