How much does GitHub Projects actually cost?

GitHub Projects Team costs $4 per user per month billed annually, which is $480 a year for a team of 10. There is a free plan, limited by usage rather than headcount: github projects is included on every plan, including free, with unlimited repositories.

List prices read from GitHub on August 2, 2026.

GitHub Projects plans and prices

PlanBilled annuallyBilled monthly
Free

Projects included.

FreeFree
Team

Projects included.

$4.00/seat/moNot published
Enterprise

Advanced security and compliance.

$21.00/seat/moNot published
Magnifi

Free up to 5 seats. No minimums, no seat blocks.

$2.50/seat/mo$3.00/seat/mo

What it costs for your team

Annual totals at the prices above, including seat minimums and seat blocks where the vendor uses them.

10

Annual billing where the vendor publishes it. Drag to match your team.

GitHub Projects Team$480/yr

Projects included.

GitHub Projects Enterprise$2,520/yr

Advanced security and compliance.

Magnifi$300/yr

$30 per seat per year, no minimums, no seat blocks

At 10 seats, moving from GitHub Projects Team to Magnifi saves $180 a year38% of the bill.

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What the sticker price leaves out

The gap between a quoted per-seat price and an actual invoice, itemised.

01

Free beats us, and we are not going to pretend otherwise

GitHub Projects is included on GitHub Free at no cost. If your team is already on GitHub Free and your work maps cleanly to issues, there is nothing to save by switching, because there is nothing being spent. Worth being precise, though: GitHub Team is $4 per user per month, which is more than Magnifi's $3 — you would buy Team for private-repo controls, not for the project tracker.

02

The cost is who cannot use it

Projects lives inside GitHub, so designers, clients and operations people need a GitHub account and a tolerance for a developer tool. Teams usually end up paying for a second tool for everyone else, and that second bill is the real comparison.

03

$21 is Enterprise, not the price of project management

Comparisons that put GitHub at $21 per user are quoting the Enterprise plan, which you buy for SAML and audit logs rather than for Projects.

When GitHub Projects is worth the money

Your team is entirely engineers, your work is already issues and pull requests, and nobody outside the repository needs visibility. In that situation GitHub Projects is the correct answer and it is nearly free.

And when it is not: a team of 10 pays $480 a year for GitHub Projects Team against $300 for Magnifi. Same tasks, boards, timelines and docs — $180 a year of difference.

GitHub Projects pricing questions

How much does GitHub Projects cost?

Nothing extra. Projects is included on GitHub Free, Team ($4 per user per month) and Enterprise ($21 per user per month). You are paying for GitHub, not for the project tracker.

Is GitHub Projects cheaper than a dedicated project management tool?

On GitHub Free, yes — nothing is cheaper than free. On GitHub Team it is $4 per user per month, which is slightly more than Magnifi's $3, though you would be paying for GitHub rather than for the tracker. The real trade-off is not price: everyone who needs access has to work inside GitHub.