I believe he means that the "SaaS option" is run in the cloud by GitLab itself, which is probably very expensive given that the nature of the service is both st

I believe he means that the "SaaS option" is run in the cloud by GitLab itself, which is probably very expensive given that the nature of the service is both storage and network-intensive. If GitLab operated their own datacenter(s) it could be considerably less expensive.