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Gitlab is 29/month. It’s hard to stomach 29 + the money for GitHub and Jira, depending on the features you need. (Minimum 11/mo)

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OP's company is paying for a dedicated CI team. Unless they have special needs, they probably aren't concerned about the CI hosting costs themselves.

I’ve worked at some places that were pretty huge, but the finance department absolutely fucking nickle and dime over everything.

Even the smallest EC2 instances had to be accounted for with a business reason that they would accept, with audits happening every few days.

Asking for a licence for something upfront was like pulling teeth.

I’ve encountered this too.

I always wonder why the eng departments never itemize the time they spend dealing with finance, then bill the finance team for the hours.

I’ve threatened to do this to a sales department - send them a bill for lost time, engineers working overtime, etc because they sold shit without a clue if it even was possible.

Lead balloons have flown better than that idea did :)

You were in a cost center, and/or your company had no concept of productivity.

The latter. Extremely “Penny wise, pound foolish” nonsense going on.

If you can't afford $30 a month, do you really have a business?

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