Compare Chef.io vs GitHub

Chef Basics Plan – Free

• Chef Client
• Chef Server
• Chef DK
• Supermarket Content

Hosted Chef Plan – $72/node

• Minimum of 20 nodes for annual billing
• All features of Chef Basics
• Hosting Services for Chef server
• Supported Content

Chef Automate Plan – $137/node (billed annually)

• All features of Hosted Chef Plan
• Workflow
• Compliance
• Visibility
• 24×7 Support

GitHub is free to use for open source and public projects. You can work together across unlimited private repositories with a paid package. Here are the pricing details:

Developer Plan – $7/month

• Free for students (Student Developer Pack)
• Personal account
• Collaborators (unlimited)
• Private & public repositories (unlimited)

Team Plan – $9/user/month

• Starting at $25/month (includes first 5 users)
• Organization account
• Team and user permissions
• Unlimited private repositories
• Unlimited public repositories

Business Plan on GitHub.com – $21/user per month

• GitHub hosted
• 95% Uptime SLA
• Organization account
• 24/5 support (8-hour response time)
• Access provisioning
• SAML single sign-on

Business Plan on GitHub Enterprise – $21*/user per month

• *Sold in packs of 10 users (billed annually)
• 24/7 support (urgent issues)
• Access provisioning
• Advanced audit
• Self-hosting on own servers (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Multiple organizations
• SAML, LDAP, and CAS