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GitHub Codespaces

Devboxes

Cloud development environments on GitHub, each in its own VM, billed per hour of compute by core count plus storage per GB-month.

Operated by GitHub (Microsoft) github.com/features/codespaces Status: active[1] Checked 31 Oct 2026

Devboxes

GitHub Codespaces

Compare Devboxes
Lowest price
$0.18 /h
2-core (2 vCPU / 8 GB)
1-hour session
≥ $0.18
2 vCPU / 4 GB · rank 7 of 11
Fleet month
≥ $1,584
50 × 8 h × 22 days
Billed on
Running time
increment unknown
Isolation
unknown
sessions up to 12 h

What to know

  • Max session 12 hA sandbox is stopped after 12 h.

Plans

GitHub Codespaces: plans
PlanPriceIncludes
FreeFree[1]Personal accounts: 120 core hours of compute and 15 GB-month of storage a month
Pro$4 /month[5]Personal accounts: 180 core hours of compute and 20 GB-month of storage a month

Prices

GitHub Codespaces: prices per size
SizevCPURAMPrice
2-core 28 GB $0.18 /h[1]
4-core 416 GB $0.36 /h[1]
8-core 832 GB $0.72 /h[1]
16-core 1664 GB $1.44 /h[1]
32-core 32128 GB $2.88 /h[1]
  • Compute is priced per hour by core count; 16 cores cost eight times 2 cores. Storage is measured in GB-hours and billed at $0.07 per GB-month for as long as a codespace or prebuild exists, running or stopped.
  • Personal accounts get a monthly quota of 120 core hours and 15 GB-month (Free) or 180 core hours and 20 GB-month (Pro); a 2-core codespace uses 2 core hours per hour. Organization and enterprise plans include no Codespaces quota.
  • Default idle timeout is 30 minutes (5 to 240 allowed); a codespace stops after 12 hours regardless, and stopped codespaces are deleted after 30 days by default.
  • Prebuilds run as GitHub Actions workflows, billed as Actions minutes, and their storage is billed like codespace storage.
  • Memory per machine type is from GitHub's pricing calculator; disk size depends on the machine type offered (e.g. 32 GB or 64 GB) and is not published per size.

Terms

Billing

Payment
Metered: usage billed afterwards[1]
Plan minimum
None[1]
Billing increment
unknown[1]Compute time is summed and reported to billing hourly; the billing increment is not published
Minimum charge
unknown[1]Not published
Per-job fee
None[1]

Runtime

Billed on
Running time[1]
Isolation
unknown[1]Each codespace runs in its own dedicated VM; the hypervisor is not named
Max session
12 h[1]
Concurrent sandboxes
unknown[1]Limits on created and active codespaces 'vary based on a number of factors'; no number published
Largest vCPU
32[1]
Largest memory
128 GB[1]

Lifecycle

Survives a stop
Disk[3]
Snapshots
No[3]
Pause and resume
Yes[3]
Fork
No[3]
Compute billed while stopped
No[3]
Auto-stop
after 30 min[3]
Start time (vendor claim)
unknown[3]No start-time number published

Capabilities

GPU
No[4]
Desktop
None[4]
Coding agents installed
None[4]
Agent prompt API
No[4]
SSH
Yes[4]
Docker inside
Yes[4]
SDKs
CLI, REST[4]
SOC 2
unknown[4]GitHub publishes SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type 2 reports for GitHub Enterprise Cloud; no public page says whether Codespaces is in scope

Storage and network

Disk included
None[1]
Extra disk
$0.07 per GB-month[1]
Snapshot storage
unknown[1]No snapshot feature; prebuild storage is billed like codespace storage at $0.07 per GB-month
Egress
unknown[1]Not published

Platform

Regions
UsEast, UsWest, EuropeWest, SoutheastAsia[2]
Your cloud (BYOC)
No[2]
Self-host
No[2]

Free allowance

Minutes a month
unknown[1]The personal-account quota is in core hours (Free 120, Pro 180), not minutes: 60 hours on a 2-core machine, 30 on a 4-core
Credit a month
None[1]
One-time credit
None[1]

Sources

  1. 1 docs.github.com/en/billing/concepts/product-billing/github-codespaces · 31 Oct 2026
  2. 2 docs.github.com/en/rest/codespaces/codespaces · 31 Oct 2026
  3. 3 docs.github.com/en/codespaces/about-codespaces/understanding-the-codespace-lifecycle · 31 Oct 2026
  4. 4 docs.github.com/en/codespaces/developing-in-a-codespace/using-github-codespaces-with-github-cli · 31 Oct 2026
  5. 5 docs.github.com/en/get-started/learning-about-github/faq-about-changes-to-githubs-plans · 31 Oct 2026

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