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GitHub pricing: GitHub repository API

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$0.00per 1,000 repositoriesWe rank 79 plans by price. GitHub's $21 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 repositories: as little as $0.0019. GitHub's $21 monthly plan covers up to 10,800,000 repositories a month at no extra cost.GitHub, Scrappa and Litescrape are the best GitHub repository API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Unauthenticated one of GitHub's 3 plans
Call: GET /repos/{owner}/{repo} GitHub's only call for this API
API: GitHub repository API one of GitHub's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 10 key fields we check. Description, Language, Topics, License, Dates, Stars, Forks, Watchers, Open issues, Owner.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send owner and repo to GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}. The call returns the repository's details.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

GitHub: GitHub repository API alternatives

GitHub alternatives: every GitHub repository API provider ranked

The table starts with GitHub's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 repositories closest to GitHub's.

GitHub, $21 monthlyLibraries.io, freeLitescrape, top-up from $10, Usage-based, GET /api/github/repositoryScrappa, $1,000 packReefAPI, $1,200 yearlyChocoData, $100 monthly, Custom $100, POST /api/v1/{site}/batch
$ per 1,000 repositories$0.0019$0.00$0.15$0.20$0.333$0.50
Completeness100%70%70%100%90%40%
Billingmonthlyfreepay firstpay firstyearlymonthly
Pay$21$0$10$1,000$1,200$100
Enough for10,800,000 calls a monthnot published66,667 calls5,000,000 calls300,000 calls a month200,000 results a month
Freshnessunknownstoredunknownunknownlivelive
Who can get itorganizations on GitHub Enterprise Cloudanyone aged 13 or over with a Libraries.io account, a human ("Accounts registered by 'bots' or other automated methods are not permitted")anyoneanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-02.

  1. docs.github.com/en/rest/about-the-rest-api/about-the-rest-api
  2. docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/repos
  3. docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-for-the-rest-api
  4. docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service
  5. github.com/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Description
  • Language
  • Topics
  • License
  • Dates
  • Stars
  • Forks
  • Watchers
  • Open issues
  • Owner
Price
$ per 1,000 repositories$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Get a user · Get an organization · List repositories for a user
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchUse the REST API to manage repositories on GitHub.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataH. API Terms, GitHub Terms of Service: "You may not share API tokens to exceed GitHub's rate limitations. You may not use the API to download data or Content from GitHub for spamming purposes, including for the purposes of selling GitHub users' personal information, such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards. All use of the GitHub API is subject to these Terms of Service and the GitHub Privacy Statement. GitHub may offer subscription-based access to our API for those Users who require high-throughput access or access that would result in resale of GitHub's Service."
Plan
Pay$0
Rate limit
Per second0.017
Concurrent100
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.16 s
The call
You sendowner, repo
MethodGET
Path/repos/{owner}/{repo}
About the plan
PlanUnauthenticated
Who can get itanyone
The 46 fields the plan's answer can hold

repository ID, node ID, name, full name, repository URL, description, homepage, owner, owner ID, owner URL, owner picture, owner type, language, topics, license, license name, stars, forks, watchers, open issues, default branch, is fork, archived, private, disabled, size, created at, updated at, pushed at, visibility, has issues, has discussions, has wiki, has pages, mirror URL, subscribers, network count, clone URL, SSH URL, has projects, has downloads, is template, allow forking, web commit signoff required, template repository, parent

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