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What is GitHub Codespaces and how can Students access it for free?

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alfredodeza
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Nov 15, 2022
GitHub Codespaces are a hosted developer environment operating in the cloud that can be run with Visual Studio Code. You can customize the development experience for any development project on GitHub...
Updated Nov 16, 2022
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Feb 27, 2023

VladislavAntonyuk that's right. For included (free) quotas there is no charge. If you were to use a Credit Card to go above those limits then it would depend on how you are configuring your thresholds and limits.

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    AshishPatel
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    Jul 18, 2025

    VladislavAntonyuk​ that's right. For included (free) quotas there is no charge. If you were to use a Credit Card to go above those limits then it would depend on how you are configuring your thresholds and limits.