It's not about pricing at all, GitHub is way more attractive with just 4$/user/month.
I think the predominant factor is data governance and information privacy. A self-hosted GitLab instance is mostly good enough, until you don't want to self-host it anymore and change to a cloud hosting service of your choice. It's just that not a lot of privacy aware people want to pay Microsoft for playing around with their data.
I think the predominant factor is data governance and information privacy. A self-hosted GitLab instance is mostly good enough, until you don't want to self-host it anymore and change to a cloud hosting service of your choice. It's just that not a lot of privacy aware people want to pay Microsoft for playing around with their data.