One new developer joins GitHub every second. That single stat from GitHub’s 2025 Octoverse report tells you everything about the platform’s trajectory: 180M+ developers, 630M total repositories, and 1.128B public contributions in a single year, making GitHub the center of modern software collaboration.
It is now the world’s primary AI development surface. 20M+ developers use GitHub Copilot, 90% of the Fortune 100 have adopted it, and more than 1.13M public repositories now import an LLM SDK.
This article covers GitHub’s users, Copilot adoption, enterprise traction, revenue, geography, and competitive positioning.
GitHub Statistics 2026: Key Insights
- GitHub added 36M+ developers in 2025, its fastest absolute growth rate yet, and the platform now has 180M+ developers worldwide.
- GitHub reached 630M total repositories, including 121M new repositories in 2025 and 58M private repositories added, up 33% YoY.
- Public and open-source repositories reached 395M, up 19% YoY, while public/open-source contributions hit 1.128B.
- Developers merged 518.7M pull requests in 2025, a 29% YoY increase, and GitHub recorded 986M+ commits in 2025, up 25% YoY.
- GitHub Copilot now has 20M+ users, and 90% of the Fortune 100 use it.
GitHub Statistics 2026: At a Glance
| Metric | Figure |
| Developers on GitHub | 180M+ |
| New developers in 2025 | 36M+ |
| Total repositories | 630M |
| New repositories in 2025 | 121M+ |
| Public/open-source repositories | 395M |
| Public/open-source contributions | 1.128B |
| Pull requests merged in 2025 | 518.7M |
| Copilot users | 20M+ |
| Fortune 100 using Copilot | 90% |
| India developers on GitHub | 21.9M |
GitHub Statistics: Deep Dive
1. GitHub Statistics 2026: User Statistics
GitHub’s user base crossed 100M developers in 2023 and grew to 180M+ by late 2025, implying an increase of roughly 80M developers in under three years.
The 2025 Octoverse report also says 36M+ developers joined in a single year, which GitHub describes as its fastest growth rate ever.
| Year | GitHub developers |
| 2023 | 100M+ |
| 2025 | 180M+ |
| 2025 new additions | 36M+ |
Private work now dominates GitHub activity: 81.5% of contributions in 2025 happened in private repositories, while public/open-source projects still made up 63% of all repositories on the platform.
GitHub’s 2026 earnings calls show Copilot becoming the platform’s main growth engine. Microsoft reported 26M+ GitHub Copilot users, then 4.7M+ paid subscribers, and later said nearly 140,000 organizations now use Copilot.
That split shows GitHub’s dual role as both an enterprise collaboration layer and the world’s largest open-source showcase.
2. GitHub Statistics 2026: Usage & Adoption Statistics
GitHub’s 2025 activity metrics show a platform that is being used more intensely, not just more widely. Developers created 230+ repositories per minute, merged 43.2M pull requests per month, and pushed nearly 1B commits in 2025.
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| Usage metric | Figure | What it suggests |
| Repositories created per minute | 230+ | Faster project creation |
| Pull requests merged monthly | 43.2M | Higher collaboration throughput |
| Issues closed monthly | 4.25M average in 2025 | More active issue handling |
| Commits in 2025 | 986M+ | Heavier shipping cadence |
| AI-related repositories | 4.3M+ | AI is now mainstream on GitHub |
AI adoption (like AI coding) is especially visible in usage patterns. GitHub says 1.13M+ public repositories now use an LLM SDK, 4.3M+ repositories are AI-related, and monthly contributions to AI projects reached about 6.0M in August 2025.
3. GitHub Statistics 2026: Demographics Statistics
A Stack Overflow survey collected 49,019 responses from 177 countries, with 76.2% identifying as professional developers; among professional developers, 66% were between 25 and 44 years old.
| Proxy demographic metric | Figure |
| Survey responses | 49,019 |
| Countries represented | 177 |
| Professional developers | 76.2% |
| Professional developers aged 25–44 | 66% |
| GitHub public as a community platform | 50.5% used, 68.4% admired |
That same survey also shows GitHub’s role in the developer workflow: 59.3% of respondents want to use GitHub for code documentation and collaboration, and 75.8% of those respondents admire it. GitLab trails on the same chart at 22% desired and 42.1% admired.
4. GitHub Statistics 2026: Revenue & Monetization Statistics
GitHub appears to monetize through a mix of paid platform plans and usage-based services. Its pricing structure includes free and paid offerings for individuals, organizations, and enterprise teams, while products such as GitHub Actions can incur additional usage charges.
GitHub Copilot is the clearest revenue driver in public view: Copilot Pro is $10 per user per month, Copilot Pro+ is $39, Copilot Business is $19 per user per month, and Copilot Enterprise is $39 per user per month.
| Monetization metric | Figure |
| Copilot Free | $0 |
| Copilot Pro | $10/user/month |
| Copilot Pro+ | $39/user/month |
| Copilot Business | $19/user/month |
| Copilot Enterprise | $39/user/month |
GitHub also announced a shift to usage-based billing for Copilot, effective June 1, 2026. The company said Pro stays at $10/month, Pro+ at $39/month, Business at $19/user/month, and Enterprise at $39/user/month, while paid plans move to AI-credit-based usage accounting.
GitHub’s overall revenue grew approximately 40% year-over-year, driven primarily by Copilot adoption.
6. GitHub Statistics 2026: Enterprise Adoption Statistics
Enterprise adoption is one of GitHub’s strongest growth areas, spanning core platform usage, AI tooling, and security features.
Microsoft reports that GitHub Copilot alone has 20M+ users, with Copilot Enterprise customers growing 75% quarter over quarter, and 90% of the Fortune 100 now using Copilot.
GitHub Enterprise Adoption Metrics
| Enterprise metric | Figure |
| GitHub Copilot users | 20M+ |
| Copilot Enterprise growth | +75% QoQ |
| Fortune 100 using Copilot | 90% |
Beyond AI, GitHub’s enterprise traction is also visible in its security tooling adoption.
GitHub reports that 2.668M+ projects have Dependabot enabled in repository settings, reflecting a 24.27% year-over-year increase.
At the same time, repositories using a dependabot.yml configuration file reached 846,000, growing 137% YoY.
GitHub Security & DevSecOps Adoption
| Security metric | Figure | Growth |
| Projects with Dependabot enabled | 2.668M+ | +24.27% YoY |
| Repositories with dependabot.yml | 846K | +137% YoY |
7. GitHub Statistics 2026: Market Share & Competitive Statistics
GitHub’s scale is far ahead of the main alternatives. GitLab reported 40M+ registered users, Bitbucket says 15M developers build on its platform, and GitHub reports 180M+ developers and 630M total repositories.
| Platform | Public scale metric | Latest public figure |
| GitHub | Developers | 180M+ |
| GitHub | Total repositories | 630M |
| GitLab | Registered users | 40M+ |
| Bitbucket | Developers | 15M |
GitHub’s 630M repositories represent the world’s largest corpus of versioned code, which is part of why Copilot was trained on GitHub data and why rivals are structurally disadvantaged in replicating it.
Developer preference surveys reinforce the gap. Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey shows GitHub is the most desired code collaboration tool at 59.3% and the most admired at 75.8%.
GitLab trails at 22% desired and 42.1% admired, which is less than half GitHub’s preference scores on both dimensions. For public community platforms specifically, GitHub sits at 50.5% used and 68.4% admired.
8. GitHub Statistics 2026: Developer / API / Platform Statistics
GitHub’s platform metrics suggest AI is changing not just what developers build, but how they build it.
In 2025, 1.13M+ public repositories imported an LLM SDK, 693,867 of those were created in the last 12 months, and monthly contributors to AI projects climbed to about 200k by August 2025.
TypeScript’s rise is one of the clearest platform-level shifts. GitHub says TypeScript overtook Python and JavaScript in August 2025, with over 1M additional contributors and 66% YoY growth.
Python still powered nearly half of all new AI repositories at 582,196 repos.
GitHub Languages Statistics 2026
| Rank | Language | Monthly contributors / projects | YoY growth |
| 1 | TypeScript | 2,636,006 contributors | +66.63% |
| 2 | Python | 2.6M contributors | +48.78% |
| 3 | JavaScript | 2.15M contributors | +24.79% |
| 4 | Java | 3,520,215 repos / 174,705 contributor gain | +9.35% |
| 5 | C# | 1,478,463 repos / 136,735 contributor gain | +10.61% to +22.22% |
Security automation is also scaling inside the platform. GitHub says broken access control was flagged in 151k+ repositories, average critical vulnerability fix time fell from 37 days to 26 days, and critical alerts were received by 26% fewer repositories in 2025.
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9. GitHub Statistics 2026: Regional / Geographic Statistics
GitHub’s geography data shows the developer map shifting toward the Global South and Asia. India now has 21.9M developers on GitHub, Brazil has 6.89M, Indonesia has 4.37M, and the United States still leads with 28M.
| Country / region | Figure |
| United States | 28M developers |
| India | 21.9M developers |
| Brazil | 6.89M developers |
| Indonesia | 4.37M developers |
The growth rate is even more important than the snapshot. India added more than 5.2M developers in 2025, Brazil and Indonesia have both more than quadrupled their developer bases since 2020. GitHub projects India will reach 57.5M developers by 2030 if current trends continue.
GitHub’s regional growth snapshots also show scale beyond the top few countries: APAC added 13M net new developers, Europe added 6.3M, Africa and the Middle East added 3.4M, and LATAM added 3.2M from 2024 to 2025.
10. GitHub Statistics 2026: Market Trends & Industry Growth
GitHub’s latest data points to a software market being reshaped by AI, typed languages, and more geographically distributed development.
The platform now hosts 4.3M+ AI-related repositories, 1.13M+ repos importing LLM SDKs, and 60% of the top 10 open-source projects by contributors are AI-focused.
Open-source activity remains huge even as AI expands. GitHub says 395M public repositories hosted 1.12B contributions in 2025, and March 2025 produced 255,000 first-time open-source contributors, the largest month on record.
The broader developer market is also getting more AI-centric. In the 2025 Stack Overflow survey, 67.9% of respondents had used GitHub Copilot, putting it behind only ChatGPT at 81.7% among out-of-the-box AI tools.
Conclusion
GitHub’s biggest public numbers in 2025 were 180M+ developers, 630M total repositories, and 1.128B public/open-source contributions.
Add 20M+ Copilot users and 90% of the Fortune 100 using Copilot, and the platform’s direction is clear: GitHub is scaling as both a collaboration network and an AI development layer.
The broader implication is that software development is becoming more distributed, more automated, and more AI-native at the same time.
GitHub’s 2026 story is not just growth in users; it is growth in the amount of code, collaboration, and AI-assisted work happening on the platform.
FAQ’s
Q: How many users does GitHub have in 2026?
A: GitHub reports 180M+ developers on the platform, up from 100M+ in early 2023.
Q: How many repositories are on GitHub?
A: GitHub says it has 630M total repositories, including 395M public/open-source repositories and 58M private repositories added in 2025.
Q: How many people use GitHub Copilot?
A: Microsoft says GitHub Copilot has 20M+ users.
Q: How fast is GitHub growing?
A: GitHub added 36M+ developers in 2025, representing 23% year-over-year growth and more than one new developer joining every second.
Q: What are the top GitHub usage trends?
A: In 2025, developers merged 518.7M pull requests, pushed 986M+ commits, and created 4.3M+ AI-related repositories.
Q: Which countries are growing fastest on GitHub?
A: India is the fastest-growing major developer community, adding 5.2M+ developers in 2025 and reaching 21.9M total developers. GitHub also reports that Brazil and Indonesia have more than quadrupled their developer bases since 2020.
Q: Is GitHub still the leading developer platform?
A: By public scale and survey preference, yes. GitHub has 180M+ developers, and Stack Overflow’s 2025 survey ranks it as the most desired collaboration tool (59.3%) and the most admired (75.8%).
