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Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model

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Re: Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model

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Top tier is still ~$100/(user*month); that seems a little much… does anyone here pay to use the top tier? Edit: Wow! I really appreciate everyone’s perspectives here!

The place I work is on Premium currently. I was starting to look into using some of their application security tools until I realized like 90% of them are Ultimate/Gold features. It was a huge bummer, especially because I don't have the case yet for getting us to upgrade to Ultimate just for those features.

Re: Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model

#23

ok, this might suck. We are on bronze right now and yes there where some things in silver that would have been nice to have it was never worth the costs per user to upgrade (especially because a lot of features already in bronze are not things we actually use or need), this might mean we either switch to free or abandon gitlab if there is an alternative.

What are the things in bronze you did need/want, vs free?

Re: Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model

#24
post #10

Is it 10000 CI minutes per user?

Hi! GitLab Team Member here. Our Premium tier comes with 10,000 minutes per organization per month. You can also buy additional minutes or use your own infrastructure as runners (which would be at no charge from GitLab).

Re: Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model

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post #10

Is it 10000 CI minutes per user?

Just host your own runners https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/

That requires on-prem hardware (or I guess you could spin VMs up in the cloud, but I doubt that works out cheaper than hosted CI).

Re: Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model

#26

Top tier is still ~$100/(user*month); that seems a little much… does anyone here pay to use the top tier? Edit: Wow! I really appreciate everyone’s perspectives here!

The question for Premium to Ultimate is "are you using GitLab for project and requirements management?"

For that, the ultimate tier is now competing with a Jira suite, or something that PMs use made by Microsoft or a similar type of product.

The licensing for the project management tool can easily run $50+/month/user

Add in the "business/customer access to the issue tracking" and if you've got Jira or similar, that adds on a gain a bit more $$.

Next, adding the artifact scanning tools. Yes, you can get them 3rd party... but its another thing to set up.

In the end, picture the 50-100 employee shop where the sysadmin is weighing in on "get GitLab Premium vs GitLab ultimate" and the reduction of additional installs and licenses that need to be managed.

Yea, it it adds $80/user/month, but if it saves an hour or two per user per month in productivity gains - that can make a difference.

In the organization I currently work for, we were considering the options of (GitLab Ultimate) vs (GitLab Premium + Jira + other tools) and ultimately went with the premium and other for a number of reasons... but GitLab Ultimate made a strong showing.

Re: Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model

#28

ok, this might suck. We are on bronze right now and yes there where some things in silver that would have been nice to have it was never worth the costs per user to upgrade (especially because a lot of features already in bronze are not things we actually use or need), this might mean we either switch to free or abandon gitlab if there is an alternative.

What are the things in bronze you did need/want, vs free?

Multiple Issue Assignees for me

Re: Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model

#29
post #26

Top tier is still ~$100/(user*month); that seems a little much… does anyone here pay to use the top tier? Edit: Wow! I really appreciate everyone’s perspectives here!

The question for Premium to Ultimate is "are you using GitLab for project and requirements management?" For that, the ultimate tier is now competing with a Jira suite, or something that PMs use made by Microsoft or a similar type of product. The licensing for the project management tool can easily run $50+/month/user Add in the "business/customer access to the issue tracking" and if you've got Jira or similar, that a…

The thing that killed ultimate for us was the fact that there was no ticket manager only role. Why pay 100/mo for a product manager who just fills out tickets. It's absurd.

Re: Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model

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post #13
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Especially considering GitHub enterprise is $21/month/user

Well but it seems gitlab offers a lot more value?

I just looked through the feature list, the security stuff is interesting but it requires a strange scenario where your employees are pushing malicious code to the repo (maybe this happens often and I've just never heard of it). Much of the Agile/project tracking stuff is in Jira/Basecamp/Asana/TeamCity (or GitHub projects + issues can be used if your needs are small). Some of the other stuff is done by a myriad of GitHub actions/bots (you'd have to spend some time getting that the way you want it though)

If you want everything integrated together this is probably fine, but GitHub Enterprise + Jira Premium is $35 per user per month (and every other project management tool is cheaper and better than Jira, just about). I don't know what the value add is here, other than self-hosting. (Or at least, the $65 value add).

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