Bitbucket vs GitHub: Pricing Comparison 2026

GitHub and Bitbucket both host Git repositories with CI/CD, but their ecosystems diverge. GitHub Free offers unlimited public and private repos with unlimited collaborators, 2,000 Actions minutes per month, and 500MB Packages storage. GitHub Team at $4/user/month adds protected branches, required reviewers, and 3,000 Actions minutes. Bitbucket Free supports 5 users with unlimited private repos and 50 build minutes per month. Standard at $3/user/month adds merge checks and 2,500 build minutes. Premium at $6/user/month adds deployment permissions, required merge checks, and IP allowlisting. GitHub's advantage is community and ecosystem. With 100M+ developers, it is the default for open-source, hiring visibility, and community engagement. GitHub Actions with 15,000+ marketplace actions and native Copilot integration make it the most capable developer platform. Bitbucket's advantage is Atlassian integration - if your team runs Jira for project management, Bitbucket's smart commits, issue linking, and deployment tracking create seamless traceability from code to ticket. For teams that use Jira and want deep bidirectional integration between code and project management, Bitbucket delivers value that GitHub requires third-party plugins to match. For nearly everyone else, GitHub's ecosystem, community size, and feature velocity make it the stronger default.