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With every release I wonder why our team is even paying for Gitlab Bronze. It seems to offer no value at all, might as well go for the free tier and save a thou

With every release I wonder why our team is even paying for Gitlab Bronze. It seems to offer no value at all, might as well go for the free tier and save a thousand dollars a year.

dindresto 6y ago
I'm not saying they should remove any free features, but now and then it'd be nice seeing a Silver feature come to Bronze.
bryanlarsen 6y ago
Merge Request Reviews was moved to core as part of this release.
- dindresto 6y ago
  Yes, this update basically reduced the value of Bronze significantly as there were no relevant new features coming to Bronze and those that we were paying for are now in the free tier.
rakoo 6y ago
Maybe the value is in ensuring the Gitlab team can continue working on the product, because they are paid to do so ?
matthewcford 6y ago
Same boat, although with GitHub pricing changes it’s more advantageous to switch. The fact that the security and dependency management is locked at gold when they are free on Github is annoying.
- matthewcford 6y ago
  Moving breakman into core is nice but not enough
kennyGitLab 6y ago
Just a quick search of GitLab issues for "to Starter" and I came across the following: - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/10107 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/10107 In general our "Why Starter" page has some great rationale for why we encourage small teams to utilize GitLab Starter/Bronze. https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/starter/ https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/starter/
thawkins 6y ago
Gitlab needs to be able to mix licenses on a single system, its current model requires all accounts in an org to operate at the same level, try selling a 1000 seat ultimate license at 99/user/month to tbe average sme. In all companies there are seats that need different levels of capabilities, gitlab is just way to expensive to use at anything above starter, the premium level works out at 2x more expensive than jira/bb/confluence with considerably less capability. I want to be able to buy 200 starter, 50 premium and 5 ultimate licenses and mix them on the same system.
- apple4ever 6y ago
  They explicitly said they don't want to do that, for reasons that really aren't clear. There are a LOT of companies that want to be able to mix developers and reporters, but can't because the price is astronomical for zero benefit. So they live with a lower tier (likely free). Doesn't make sense.
  - xhl 6y ago
    @apple4ever Thank you very much for your feedback! This is very helpful for us to iterate on our handbook explanation and our pricing strategy.
- xhl 6y ago
  @thawkins Thank you so much for your inputs on our pricing model! Our current model do not have multiple plans for one customer https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/pricing/#multiple-plans-for-one-customer https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/pricing/#multiple-plan... as @apple4ever mentioned. However, it's extremely important for us to hear from you. We recently clarified our Pricing Philosophy and Collaboration on pricing with you is part of it: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/pricing/#pricing-philosophy https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/pricing/#pricing-philo... We definitely take your inputs back and consider to build into our next iteration on the pricing strategy.
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With every release I wonder why our team is even paying for Gitlab Bronze. It seems to offer no value at all, might as well go for the free tier and save a thousand dollars a year.

dindresto 6y ago

I'm not saying they should remove any free features, but now and then it'd be nice seeing a Silver feature come to Bronze.

bryanlarsen 6y ago

Merge Request Reviews was moved to core as part of this release.

dindresto 6y ago
Yes, this update basically reduced the value of Bronze significantly as there were no relevant new features coming to Bronze and those that we were paying for are now in the free tier.

rakoo 6y ago

Maybe the value is in ensuring the Gitlab team can continue working on the product, because they are paid to do so ?

matthewcford 6y ago

Same boat, although with GitHub pricing changes it’s more advantageous to switch. The fact that the security and dependency management is locked at gold when they are free on Github is annoying.

matthewcford 6y ago
Moving breakman into core is nice but not enough

kennyGitLab 6y ago

Just a quick search of GitLab issues for "to Starter" and I came across the following: - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/10107 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/10107 In general our "Why Starter" page has some great rationale for why we encourage small teams to utilize GitLab Starter/Bronze. https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/starter/ https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/starter/

thawkins 6y ago

Gitlab needs to be able to mix licenses on a single system, its current model requires all accounts in an org to operate at the same level, try selling a 1000 seat ultimate license at 99/user/month to tbe average sme. In all companies there are seats that need different levels of capabilities, gitlab is just way to expensive to use at anything above starter, the premium level works out at 2x more expensive than jira/bb/confluence with considerably less capability. I want to be able to buy 200 starter, 50 premium and 5 ultimate licenses and mix them on the same system.

apple4ever 6y ago
They explicitly said they don't want to do that, for reasons that really aren't clear. There are a LOT of companies that want to be able to mix developers and reporters, but can't because the price is astronomical for zero benefit. So they live with a lower tier (likely free). Doesn't make sense.
- xhl 6y ago
  @apple4ever Thank you very much for your feedback! This is very helpful for us to iterate on our handbook explanation and our pricing strategy.
xhl 6y ago
@thawkins Thank you so much for your inputs on our pricing model! Our current model do not have multiple plans for one customer https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/pricing/#multiple-plans-for-one-customer https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/pricing/#multiple-plan... as @apple4ever mentioned. However, it's extremely important for us to hear from you. We recently clarified our Pricing Philosophy and Collaboration on pricing with you is part of it: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/pricing/#pricing-philosophy https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ceo/pricing/#pricing-philo... We definitely take your inputs back and consider to build into our next iteration on the pricing strategy.
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