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Cost of migration, especially all the pipelines and project planning. GitLab used to be a good deal. The bronze tier was 4$ and you had better CI than GitHub a
by deng 2y ago
Cost of migration, especially all the pipelines and project planning.
GitLab used to be a good deal. The bronze tier was 4$ and you had better CI than GitHub at the time. Then in 2021 they ditched bronze and went to the new three tier model, the cheapest being 20$ (apart from the free tier, which however is severely limited). Last year they increased it to 30$, and that does not even include AI features, which will cost you 20$ extra.
So nowadays, there is indeed pretty much no reason to chose GitLab other than self-hosting. We still have license until 2026 and I'm pretty sure we'll bite the bullet and start migration to GitHub before we renew. Sadly, I don't see much of a future for GitLab, apart from being acquired by Google, Meta or similar who can afford to run this at a loss for strategic reasons, like MS does with GitHub.
- hakfoo 2y agoI'd think that self-hosting is a niche that grows in appeal over time. We're one "they trained the LLM on our private repos and it leaked" scandal away from undermining a lot of trust in cloud services. There are probably also businesses that end up into compliance scenarios where it's easier to walk an auditor over to the rack and point at the VCS server rather than trying to get the right testimony from the cloud providers.