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Gitlab has introduced a five-user limit for free groups

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160 points MattIPv4 | 1 comments | 20 Jun 23 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.279s | source
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derN3rd ◴[20 Jun 23 17:33 UTC] No.36407503[source]▶
Their pricing update end of last year was one of the reasons we switched over to Github. Other reasons were, that most external services had integration with Github but not with Gitlab, or that we didn't use many of the features Gitlab provided but charged for. If they would provide some lite plans with custom feature addons, we might have kept it, but all in all there was not much difference between Gitlab and Github except for the pricing then
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lazypenguin ◴[20 Jun 23 17:37 UTC] No.36407569[source]▶
I've said it before and I agree with this comment. Their pricing structure is just too aggressive for smaller teams and I think they missed out on capturing a market segment. Maybe they determined it would be unprofitable to support small teams or something but I would have happily kept my team on GitLab if there was an ala carte or "lite" option like you suggested. Instead we also ended up on Github (as paying customers).
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jacquesm ◴[20 Jun 23 17:47 UTC] No.36407723[source]▶
You could of course host it yourself.
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1. reaperman ◴[20 Jun 23 18:09 UTC] No.36408088[source]▶
For small teams which were happy using the "free" tier, that's really the correct solution. Just self-host it and retain free-tier functionality.

That said, it looks like the premium features are $29/mo or $99/mo per user regardless if you self-host it or take advantage of their managed SaaS offering. It's somewhat bizarre - there's a lot of costs associated with managing this on-site but no discount for that. I presume they feel that extra overhead cost to the customer of self-hosting breaks even with the perceived or actual added security value of self-managed installations.

I might be reading it wrong, but that's how I see the pricing presented here and associated pages: https://about.gitlab.com/install/ce-or-ee/