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GitHub pricing: GitHub user repository API

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100% complete: all 8 key fields we checkSee the 8 fields
$0.00per 1,000 repositoriesWe rank 49 plans by price. GitHub's $21 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 repositories: as little as $0.000019. GitHub's $21 monthly plan covers up to 10,800,000 pages a month at no extra cost. Each page holds 100 repositories.Scrappa, GitHub and ScrapingIsNotACrime are the best GitHub user repositories API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Unauthenticated one of GitHub's 3 plans
Call: GET /users/{username}/repos GitHub's only call for this API
API: GitHub user repository API one of GitHub's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • All 8 key fields we check. Description, Language, Topics, License, Dates, Stars, Forks, Open issues.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send username to GET /users/{username}/repos. You can also send type, sort, direction, per_page and page. The call returns the account's repositories.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

GitHub: GitHub user repository API alternatives

GitHub alternatives: every GitHub user 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 monthlyAnyAPI, free trial keyScrappa, $1,000 packReefAPI, $1,200 yearly, Enterprise yearly, POST /github/v1/user_reposScrapeAtlas, $249 packMonocrawl, $7,668 yearly
$ per 1,000 repositories$0.000019$0.00$0.002$0.0033$0.013$0.016
Completeness100%100%75%75%100%75%
Billingmonthlyfreepay firstyearlypay firstyearly
Pay$21$0$1,000$1,200$249$7,668
Enough for10,800,000 pages a monthabout 41 pages, once5,000,000 pages300,000 pages a month200,000 pages400,000 pages a month
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownliveunknownunknown
Who can get itorganizations on GitHub Enterprise Cloudanyone 18 or over, with no account, for business or professional use, not in an embargoed jurisdiction or on a restricted-party listanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreement, a business's account holder must be authorized to bind itanyone

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
  • Open issues
Price
$ per 1,000 repositories$0.00
Perpage of 100
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Get a user · Get an organization · Get a repository
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchLists public repositories for the specified user.
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
Speed
Median0.95 s
The call
You sendusername. Optional: type, sort, direction, per_page, page
MethodGET
Path/users/{username}/repos
About the plan
PlanUnauthenticated
Who can get itanyone
The 44 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

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