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Removing a cheap tier is not a nice, though I still think that if the premium price is too much then you're better off on the free tier. And if that's really not enough you really were lucky all these years profiting from gitlabs growth hack.

The premium tier still provides a ridiculous amount of value for it's price.

For truly open source projects, they have a really generous program giving seats that normally cost 100 dollars a month away for free.

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If you have more than 5 users, the free tier is not an option.

We liked and paid for Gitlab, but the price hike from $4 to $19 per user is absurd. Forcing an annual subscription on us was the motivation we needed to migrate away.

To get just one single thing we need would be $100/month. It’s for some 100’ish people, so it’s $10k per month, and since they don’t do monthly, it’d be $120k in one go.

I just… I can’t present that to management as a good deal. There is no way whatsoever that that’s worth it. We can get all of the things Gitlab does separately, better and at a lower price…

Gitlab gained millions of users by boasting their OSS offering and generous free tier on the managed service.

It's a market economy and as a startup, Gitlab took a strategy to differentiate and grow.

Wouldn't say users are taking advantage of "Gitlab Inc"

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