Gitlab pricing used to be something like $4/mo and they saw incredible growth.
They raised their rates to $19/mo and now are seeing slow growth.
In April they are raising to $29/mo- not sure what they think is going to happen.
Also, for anyone that actively watches, they have to wonder if there will be another price hike once you are on their platform.
Github Enterprise is only $21/mo and for most users it has all the same features of Gitlab.
Gitlab's main differentiator for a long time was CI, but now Github has its own equivalent (Actions).
It seems that Gitlab is only going to be left with
1) existing Gitlab users
2) users that want some enterprise feature set that doesn't exist on Github, and want it in a single platform without a third party
Github Enterprise is only $21/mo and for most users it has all the same features of Gitlab.
Gitlab's main differentiator for a long time was CI, but now Github has its own equivalent (Actions).
It seems that Gitlab is only going to be left with 1) existing Gitlab users 2) users that want some enterprise feature set that doesn't exist on Github, and want it in a single platform without a third party