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Do you think pricing based on features would be more reasonable for people that don’t currently have the need for the other 3rd party systems? I’ve heard that they don’t want to make pricing more complex but it does seem like a steep pricing if you only need say what GitHub offers for $4/user.

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Yes. I'm a premium user and I got so pissed off with their runners that we ended up building a runner farm in AWS.

This is so much faster and better but as a premium user I cannot refuse to take the bundled CI minutes on their shitty SaaS runners.

That’s interesting do you have more details about the runner farm? In my small scale experiment it was difficult to have so many available runners at all times. We run a monorepo and there are changes that will hit several apps that need testing. So for example opening a PR might need 40 runners. Meanwhile other devs might need 1 or 2, etc.

We use AWS Fargate with a small ec2 box orchestrating the jobs.

There is a howto on Gitlab's docs that walks you through it all

Which features are you looking for? Just curious because they have added a lot to the free tier too.

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