Pricing
Every banner, preset, size and theme is free and needs no account. Pro is not for sale: it costs one star on the GitBanners repository.
Plans
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | One GitHub star |
| Account | None needed for banners. Sign in with GitHub to save them. | Sign in with GitHub and star markeljan/gitbanners |
| Live banners: all 16 presets, 6 sizes and 24 themes | Yes | Yes |
| SVG and PNG, custom colours and sizes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON API and MCP server, no key | Yes | Yes |
| Saved banners with stable links | 3 | 50 |
| GitBanners mark on saved banners | Shown | Can be hidden |
| Animated contribution graph (SVG) | No | Yes |
| Your own default banner at your profile URL | No | Yes |
| Refresh of saved banners at the edge | Every 15 minutes | Every 5 minutes |
Free
Free is the whole product for public data, without a sign-in:
- A live banner for any public GitHub user, organization or repository, as SVG or PNG.
- Every preset, size and theme, plus your own colours, in the URL. The docs list them all.
- Embed snippets for READMEs, and PNG downloads sized for X, LinkedIn, link previews and GitHub's social preview.
- The JSON API and the MCP server, with the same limits for everyone: 120 requests per 60 seconds, and 60 requests per 60 seconds for search.
- Sign in with GitHub to keep up to 3 banners with a stable link each.
Pro
Pro adds what matters once a banner is part of your profile. To get it:
- Star markeljan/gitbanners on GitHub.
- Sign in with GitHub on this site. If you were already signed in, sign in once more so the star is seen.
- Pro is active from that moment. There is nothing to pay and no card to enter.
- Save up to 50 banners instead of 3.
- Hide the small GitBanners mark on your saved banners.
- Animate the contribution graph of a saved SVG banner.
- Choose which saved banner is served at your own profile URL, such as
/your-login.svg. - Saved banners refresh every 5 minutes instead of every 15 minutes.
Pro lasts as long as the star does, and the star is checked again a few times a day. Without it the account is Free again: your saved banners stay, the mark returns on them and animation stops, and new banners can be saved once fewer than 3 are left.
Paid plans
There are none. Nothing on this site can be bought, and no payment details are ever asked for.