Comment by watermelon0
11 hours ago
Is GitHub really profitable, considering how much Actions credits are given away to open source projects as well as free users? Same goes for Copilot.
11 hours ago
Is GitHub really profitable, considering how much Actions credits are given away to open source projects as well as free users? Same goes for Copilot.
> Is GitHub really profitable
Well I had assumed that GitHub was profitable, since it used to be independent, and it feels like it should be profitable right now. But I tried Googling "is GitHub profitable" just now, and the first few results seem to suggest that either it's still losing money or that nobody knows. So I was likely incorrect about that point, sorry.
> considering how much Actions credits are given away to open source projects as well as free users?
GitLab does the same thing, and they are definitely profitable [0], so that on its own isn't necessarily a barrier.
[0]: https://ir.gitlab.com/news/news-details/2026/GitLab-Reports-...