# GitHub Pages review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Static site hosting built into GitHub repositories Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. GitHub Pages publishes static HTML, CSS and JavaScript files straight from a GitHub repository, optionally running them through a build step first. It comes with a GitHub account rather than as a separate product, so the price is whatever GitHub plan you are on. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** GitHub, Inc. - **Website:** https://pages.github.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need server-side code or a database, as Pages is static only. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, GitHub Pages has a free plan, and paid plans start at $0 on GitHub Free for public repositories; $4 per user / month on GitHub Team. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Included with GitHub Free for sites built from public repositories, within the usage limits in GitHub's documentation. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | GitHub Free | $0 | Pages from public repositories, one user or organization site per account and unlimited project sites. | | GitHub Team | $4 per user / month | Pages from public and private repositories, as listed in GitHub's plans documentation. | | GitHub Enterprise | $21 per user / month | Pages from public and private repositories on Enterprise Cloud, plus Enterprise Server. | Read from https://github.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with GitHub Pages before buying. ## Key features - **Publish from a repository:** Push files to a repository and the site updates; sites can be one per user or organization plus one per project repository. - **Jekyll and custom workflows:** Sites can run through a Jekyll build, or be built and published with a custom GitHub Actions workflow. - **Custom domains and HTTPS:** Sites live at a github.io address by default, and a custom domain can be configured with HTTPS. - **Usage limits stated up front:** Published sites may be no larger than 1 GB, with a soft limit of 100 GB of bandwidth and 10 builds an hour per site. ## Good for - Project documentation and portfolios kept next to the code - Static sites with modest traffic - Developers who already work in GitHub ## Worth knowing - Pages is static only: there is no server-side code or database. - GitHub's terms bar using Pages as free hosting for an online business, e-commerce or SaaS site. - Private repositories can publish Pages only on paid GitHub plans. - Pages sites must not be used for sensitive transactions such as sending passwords or card numbers. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. GitHub Pages publishes a static site straight from a repository, free on a public one. It runs no server code or database, the terms bar using it for a business or online shop, and a private repository needs a paid GitHub plan. - **Value for money: A.** Free on GitHub Free for public repositories, against $5 a month at the cheaper quarter of web hosting. The paid step is GitHub Team at $4 a user. - **Free plan and trial: B.** A free site for good, but only within GitHub's published usage limits, and only from a public repository. - **Features: C.** Publishes from a repository with Jekyll or your own workflow, custom domains and HTTPS. Static only, with no server-side code or database, so it does a smaller job than most hosts. - **Ease of use: C.** You need a repository and a build workflow before anything goes live, which is more setup than a drag-and-drop host. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, but tied into GitHub repositories and Actions, with custom domains. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from GitHub's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - GitHub Pages's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 120 of the 122 other web hosts we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 105 of 122) and worst on features (C, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace GitHub Pages you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 120 of the 122 other web hosts we grade. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with GitHub Actions, Jekyll, GitHub Desktop **Tags:** Public API, Workflow automation ## Alternatives - [Netlify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/netlify): Git-based hosting for sites and web apps, priced by monthly credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/github-pages-vs-netlify) - [Cloudflare Pages](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cloudflare-pages): Git-based hosting for static sites and full-stack apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cloudflare-pages-vs-github-pages) - [Vercel](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vercel): Git-based hosting for front-end and full-stack web apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/github-pages-vs-vercel) - [Firebase Hosting](https://toolgpa.com/tools/firebase-hosting): Google's CDN hosting for static and single-page web apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/firebase-hosting-vs-github-pages) - [Surge](https://toolgpa.com/tools/surge): Static web publishing from the command line. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/github-pages-vs-surge) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://pages.github.com - https://github.com/pricing - https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/what-is-github-pages - https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/github-pages-limits Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/github-pages Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).