$7 a month sounds like a lot for storing a few kilobytes of files. Especially given that he could get 5 GB of storage free on Google Drive or a similar service

$7 a month sounds like a lot for storing a few kilobytes of files. Especially given that he could get 5 GB of storage free on Google Drive or a similar service. The silly thing here is that Github's pricing for private repos doesn't take into account bandwidth use or repo size. After all, those are the costs to Github, not number of repos. It would be like a grocery store charging you a flat fee for 5 items, without bothering to inquire about what those items were.