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Is GitHub Pages still free?
Yes, with limits Partly. GitHub Pages had a free tier with notable restrictions on the vendor's public page on 2026-10-05.
Static site hosting with a 1 GB site size limit and a 100 GB per month soft bandwidth limit, not allowed for running an online business.
Free tier limits and listed figures
| Item | Value on the vendor page |
|---|---|
| Published site size | 1 GB |
| Source repository size (recommended) | 1 GB |
| Bandwidth (soft limit) | 100 GB per month |
| Builds (soft limit) | 10 per hour |
| Deployment timeout | 10 minutes |
Card and commercial use
- Credit card required
- not stated by the vendor
- Commercial use allowed
- No
Gotchas
- Not allowed as free hosting to run an online business, e-commerce site or commercial SaaS
- Over quota, the site may stop being served or GitHub Support may email you
- Rate-limited requests get HTTP 429
Recent change
No recent change is noted on the vendor page that was read.
Alternatives to compare
- Is Cloudflare Pages still free? Yes
- Is Netlify still free? Yes
- Is Vercel still free? Yes, with limits
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Source
Vendor page read by software on 2026-10-05, written out as text so you can copy it into your browser:
https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/github-pages-limits