--- description: Learn more about GitHub price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in South Africa. Read reviews from verified users and discover similar tools. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: GitHub Price, Reviews & Features - Capterra South Africa 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [App Development Software](/directory/30082/application-development/software) > [GitHub](/software/129067/github) # GitHub Canonical: https://www.capterra.co.za/software/129067/github Page: 1 / 248\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/129067/github?page=2) > GitHub enables development teams to collaborate, and review and manage code within a DevOps pipeline and built-in code security. > > Verdict: Rated **4.8/5** by 6171 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses GitHub? Development teams at startups and small businesses to Fortune 50 companies use GitHub, every step of the way. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.8/5** | 6171 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Microsoft - **Location**: Redmond, US - **Founded**: 1975 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$4,00 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Free (Basics for teams and developers) $0 per month Team (Advanced collaboration and support for teams): $4 per user / month Enterprise (Security, compliance, and flexible deployment for enterprises): $21 per user/month - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq and 27 more ## Features - Application Security - Automated Testing - Backlog Management - Bug Tracking - Bug/Issue Capture - Code Review - Collaboration Tools - Collaborative Development - Configuration Management - Continuous Delivery - Continuous Deployment - Continuous Integration - Dashboard - Debugging - File Sharing - Graphical User Interface - Integrated Development Environment - Issue Management - Issue Tracking - Milestone Tracking - Monitoring - Project Management - Quality Assurance - Real-Time Analytics - Release Management - Reporting/Project Tracking - Repository Management - Task Management - Task Progress Tracking - Ticket Management - Version Control - Vulnerability Scanning ## Integrations (14 total) - CircleCI - Git - Heroku - JIRA Service Management - Jenkins - Jira - Microsoft Azure - Microsoft Visual Studio - Netlify - Pivotal Tracker - Slack - Trello - Vercel - Visual Studio Code ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base ## Category - [App Development Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/30082/application-development/software) ## Related Categories - [App Development Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/30082/application-development/software) - [Source Code Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/31420/source-code-management/software) - [Nonprofit Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/32439/project-management-software-for-nonprofits/software) - [Project Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/30002/project-management/software) - [Continuous Integration Tools](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/31119/continuous-integration/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Airtable](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/146652/airtable) — 4.6/5 (2229 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Quality Source Code Version Control on the Colud" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *18 July 2019* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: I love the ability it gives people to store, backup and share their code on the cloud, which is not locked to a commercial organisation - it is suitable for a variety of people within the coding space whether its a large enterprise or a single user working on a hobby project. > > **Cons**: GitHub is not so versatile in keeping a birds eye view of different projects that you have selected to view from their owners accounts. You either need to fork which creates a single version of the repository or be invited as a collaborator to the project. > > I have realized that GitHub is one example from many ways that you can make use of non in house tools to save time on maintenance and feature requirement updates of managing processes for a business. ----- ### "The undisputed standard for code collaboration and open source" — 4.0/5 > **Davide** | *17 April 2026* | Security & Investigations | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: GitHub Actions is the CI/CD tool I prefer over any other. It is immediate, works extremely well, supports multiple operating systems, and even allows you to run self-hosted runners on-premises with minimal setup. What makes it truly powerful is the ecosystem: thousands of community-built, reusable actions exist for almost every use case, so you rarely have to reinvent the wheel. This saves an enormous amount of time day to day. Beyond Actions, the pull request workflow is excellent and the collaboration features — Issues and Discussions in particular — are extremely convenient and well-designed. GitHub is also the de facto standard for open source: almost every meaningful open source project lives here, and the fact that public repositories are free makes it the natural home for community-driven software. I use it both for my personal open source projects and at an enterprise level, and it handles both scenarios very well. The ability to host public and private repositories on the same platform without needing separate tools is a significant advantage. > > **Cons**: The project management section (GitHub Projects) still feels rough compared to dedicated tools like Linear. It works, but the UX is unintuitive and I usually reach for other tools when I need real project tracking. Issues and Discussions are great; Projects needs more work. Stability has also become a concern. GitHub has been experiencing more frequent outages lately. They are usually short, but they are disruptive — when your entire workflow depends on GitHub (pushing code, running pipelines, reviewing PRs), even brief downtime brings everything to a halt. Finally, the notification system is genuinely broken for my use case. The sheer volume of notifications makes it nearly impossible to find the ones that actually matter — a comment on your own issue, a review request, a mention. I often miss important updates unless someone tells me directly or I stumble across them manually. > > GitHub is a tool I would recommend to any team, regardless of size or industry. Small teams can get started for free; larger organizations can scale up to GitHub Enterprise. The platform works equally well for closed-source commercial projects and public open source repositories, and you never need to split your work across multiple tools. I would especially recommend it to anyone building or contributing to open source software — GitHub is the central hub where projects are born, grow, and gain traction. There is simply no better place to build in public. It is also worth noting that GitHub is not limited to software developers. Writers, researchers, and academics can benefit from version-controlled plain-text workflows (Markdown, LaTeX) managed through branches and releases — and modern AI tooling makes the learning curve much more approachable than it used to be. In short: I could not work without GitHub. Despite its rough edges, it remains the most complete and widely adopted platform for code collaboration and version control available today. ----- ### "Reliable but stingy github actions capacity" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *26 March 2026* | Medical Practice | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: I appreciate the github actions, which allows me to run automated testing for each one of my pull requests. > > **Cons**: It's annoying that I am not able to have unlimited github actions for private repos that I pay for. It's limited to a cap, which I think is a little stingy considering that I am a paying customer. I would have expected the same caps as public github repos. > > Overall, the experience is great. It's a very convenience way to store my git repos online, and I can trust that the data will be there to stay since it is owned by Microsoft. I've have my github for almost 10 years. Some years I am more active than others, but I can always count on the experience being consistent and reliable. ----- ### "Good tool for code management but lacks some features when integrating with Confluence/Jira" — 3.0/5 > **Mark** | *03 June 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: GitHub is a great tool to manage pull requests and being able to add labels in our teams helps to differentiate between urgent items which need reviews and are vital for the next release. > > **Cons**: One of the drawbacks with GitHub is integrating non development team members into a workflow process. Even though it is possible to setup a workflow too add approvers the terminology and UI is very developer based so can be a bit confusing to non development colleagues. > > Overall GItHub is a good tool for managing code, getting reviews and merging into the relevant branch ahead of deployment. There are some good integrations but it would be great if it could work more seamlessly with Confluence and Jira, and provide additional features to help automatically manage the correct states of the linked jira. ----- ### "Perfect for all sizes of projects" — 5.0/5 > **🧑‍💻 Owain** | *06 April 2026* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: I enjoy working with GitHub due to its ease of use and that so many people use it so there are tons of online resources available if you get stuck trying to set something up > > **Cons**: Sometimes swapping between repos can be cumbersome. If you have multiple organisations it's not always a smooth transition between repos > > I enjoy working with GitHub so much that we've recently migrated all our bitbucket repos to GitHub. 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