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GitHub

Where code lives, and increasingly where it ships.

Visit GitHub Freemium

GitHub is the default home for open source and the coordination layer for most professional teams. Beyond hosting, the useful parts are pull requests with review tooling, Actions for CI, and the issue tracker most projects already use. The free tier includes unlimited private repositories and a generous Actions allowance.

Where it falls short

The interface has accumulated decades of features and is genuinely confusing for newcomers, and CI pricing for heavy private-repo usage adds up.

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