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Repository activity climbs sharply at the far end of the distribution
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Beyond these highest-volume workloads, total Git activity on GitHub is also growing rapidly: between September 2025 and August 2026, it increased to more than 2x its previous level, from 218.2 billion events per month to 473.3 billion.
Key facts
- Beyond these highest-volume workloads, total Git activity on GitHub is also growing rapidly: between September 2025 and August 2026, it increased to more than 2x its previous level, from 218.2
- In September alone, developers and agents made 7.38 billion commits on GitHub, more than five times as many as a year earlier
- Here’s a rough picture of the monthly repository activity distribution on GitHub from August 2026
- In internal benchmarks, it has delivered up to 35 times higher write throughput, with read capacity that scales on its own to meet demand
Summary
Every day on GitHub, millions of developers build the products their customers rely on, contribute to open source, and pursue personal projects. Agentic software development is driving the next architectural shift. Today’s highest-volume workloads show the scale they're building for. In September alone, developers and agents made 7.38 billion commits on GitHub, more than five times as many as a year earlier.