Hey all,
New user here, and I couldn’t find a place for pricing, so if this is incorrect, please move it.
I was comparing github and gitlab pricing, but was a little confused. To me, github seems like 4$ per user per month for the “pro” tier. On gitlab, if I’m not mistaken, it’s 29$ per user per month?
So that,s a 7x higher price per month, right? Or is the 29$ per month per user for the whole year?
I wanted to make sure I’m reading that right.
$29 per user per month is 12 months x $29 = $348 for the year per user. So if 10 users, then that now works out at $3480 (348 x 10).
Oh wow, so github is 7x cheaper.
I guess MS can dip into their infinite money to subsidize github or whatever.
Would be nice if gitlab offered a plan for small time single devs to have better features, for say 5$ a month. Ideally offering better CI/CD stuff, and maybe a small storage pool. Would be amazing honestly. I wanted to migrate away from github but this is too steep for me to make any financial sense right now.
Thank you for the clarification!
They used to have a Starter subscription which was about the same as Github Pro pricing. There are plenty of posts already on the forum about that point in time when Gitlab removed the Starter subscription a few years back. Unfortunately I doubt very much it will return, but who knows what Gitlab might do in the future when revising their pricing.
Perfect, sounds good (well bad, because I can’t pay I guess).
I explored the starter plan threads and, yea, sad. Looks like gitlab isn’t for me then. Sad. I really wanted to move away from github and was exploring alternatives.
Oh well.
Thanks!
You can still use Gitlab for free just without the functionality that the subscriptions offer.
I can, but wanted higher limits, and was willing to pay for it, but the prices are too steep for it to make any sense for my use-case.
Unrelated thinking-out-loud (feel free to remove)
I’m no financial brains, but I guess I am just confused with how removing a lower-tier option that brings in some money is worse than free which brings in zero money. I guess the reasoning would be that people are essentially locked in and would migrate to the higher tiers. Which is a cruel rug-pull, imho. And looking at the historical stock trend, it seems to have fallen pretty badly in the months following the change to remove these tiers. I know it doesn’t correspond to other financials such as revenue, but then again, as an end user, would’ve been nice to have a small “pro” tier for small individuals and teams.
I suppose it depends on what limits you mean. If you mean CI/CD limits on gitlab.com, then if you are running your own Gitlab server and runners, then you have no limits when it comes to CI/CD minutes, etc. Or for example API limits in gitlab.com vs running your own server.
If you mean limits as in functionality available in free or paid versions, then of course that would be a restriction.
What about GitLab Community Edition?
No limits and free and you can install it on your own server and keep your sources to yourself and only the co-developers you choose.
Works very well for me!