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GitHub Codespaces

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GitHub Codespaces provides instant, cloud-based development environments that are fully configured and secure. It allows developers to code from any device, onboard faster, and fix bugs directly from pull requests, integrating seamlessly with the GitHub platform for collaborative coding.

Features
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Must Have

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Access Control & Security

API & Database Integrations

Drag-and-Drop UI Builder

Code Customization

Flexible Deployments

Other

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Debugging & Monitoring

Version Control Integration

Audit Logs & Analytics

Workflow Automation

AI-Generated App Assistant

Mobile-Responsive Support

Prebuilt React Components

Custom Theming & Branding

Partner & Customer Portals

Pricing
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Free

$0.00 monthly
  • Unlimited public/private repositories
  • Dependabot security and version updates
  • 2,000 CI/CD minutes/month (Free for public repositories)
  • 500MB of Packages storage (Free for public repositories)
  • Issues & Projects
  • Community support
  • Limited GitHub Codespaces spend
  • Limited GitHub Actions minutes
  • Limited GitHub Packages storage

Team

$4.00 per user
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  • Everything included in Free
  • Access to GitHub Codespaces
  • Repository rules
  • Multiple reviewers in pull requests
  • Draft pull requests
  • Code owners
  • Required reviewers
  • Pages and Wikis
  • Environment deployment branches and secrets
  • 3,000 CI/CD minutes/month (Free for public repositories)
  • 2GB of Packages storage (Free for public repositories)
  • Web-based support

Enterprise

$21.00 per user
  • Everything included in Team
  • Data residency
  • Enterprise Managed Users
  • User provisioning through SCIM
  • Enterprise Account to centrally manage multiple organizations
  • Environment protection rules
  • Repository rules
  • Audit Log API
  • SOC1, SOC2, type 2 reports annually
  • FedRAMP Tailored Authority to Operate (ATO)
  • SAML single sign-on
  • Advanced auditing
  • GitHub Connect
  • 50,000 CI/CD minutes/month (Free for public repositories)
  • 50GB of Packages storage (Free for public repositories)
Rationale

GitHub Codespaces provides cloud-hosted development environments, which aligns with the concept of accelerating development. While it offers features like access control, flexible deployments (cloud-hosted), debugging tools (implied through IDE integration), version control (native to GitHub), audit logs, and workflow automation (via GitHub Actions), it does not explicitly offer a drag-and-drop UI builder or direct API/database integrations for building internal tools in the same low-code manner as Retool. Its primary focus is on providing instant, configured development environments for coding, rather than a visual low-code platform for application building.