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[return to "GitHub is now free for teams"]
1. natfri+V2[view] [source] 2020-04-14 16:19:39
>>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.

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2. oefrha+Jd[view] [source] 2020-04-14 17:06:55
>>natfri+V2
First of all, thank you, this is great news.

That said, the news made me wonder what exactly I’m still paying for with my personal Pro account. I went to the pricing page https://github.com/pricing and it seems Pro isn’t even listed anymore? And the Billings page https://github.com/settings/billing says “Pages, Wikis, protected branches and more for Pro developers” without any further explanation or link to docs explaining the differences. I can only assume that Pro has the same set of features as the $4/user/mo Team plan, but the messaging is certainly pretty confusing, don’t you think?

(I sure hope this isn’t a sign of neglect for individual developers, who are still the backbone of open source activities.)

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3. maskli+Ef[view] [source] 2020-04-14 17:16:00
>>oefrha+Jd
I still get a Pro option when going to https://github.com/account/upgrade from a free account, and it seems to match Teams, here's the blurb:

> Required reviewers in private repos

> Protected branches in private repos

> Repository insights in private repos

> Wikis in private repos

> Pages in private repos

> Code owners in private repos

> 3,000 minutes for GitHub Actions

> 2GB of storage for packages

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4. ksec+Xj1[view] [source] 2020-04-14 23:29:08
>>maskli+Ef
So basically Pro and Team are the same now?

Edit: The FAQ points to Github product page [1] which list GitHub Team having 10K Actions instead.

[1] https://help.github.com/en/github/getting-started-with-githu...

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5. withth+9J1[view] [source] 2020-04-15 03:39:33
>>ksec+Xj1
So... wouldn't this mean GitHub Team with a single user is better than GitHub pro?
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