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Comment by sondh | Hacker News Reader

He mentioned the github $5 plan however I always pays $7 each month since the beginning. I checked github pricing[1] and it's showing the micro plan starts at $7/mo. Is there a lower plan by buying in bulk, paying annually or else?

[1]https://github.com/plans

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He's updated it to say:

* I have a $7 educational discount and I buy $12 plan on GitHub, normally they don’t offer a $5 plan.

If you get an student discount which is $7 off every month for 2 years, and buy a $12 plan, you pay $5. At least that was the case for me, maybe he forgot to mention. I'm not sure.

I have a free account on github, but I must be a terrible customer, because starting from my account, it took about 8 clicks to find the pricing information. I ended up having to go through the FAQ, and one question happened to link to the plans. Either that, or github has very relaxed attitude about sales. Maybe they only alert you to it when you attempt an action that requires an upgrade (e.g. too many repositories).

It tells you about paid plans whenever you go to create a new repository, and on the front page when you're logged out, but otherwise, yeah, it's pretty obtuse if you're an existing user.

I might get blasted for this but I always found Github a little on the pricey side from a personal perspective.

I mean I love how they treat the OSS community and I like the product they ship, but $12/month for what is essentially a worse product than what DropBox gives you for free.

Or even BitBucket.

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