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oblig. BitBucket has free private repo's https://www.atlassian.com/software/bitbucket/overview

you don't get to 3 billion dollars without giving away a lot of stuff for free to infiltrate the enterprise

I use Github for personal stuff and Bitbucket at work. They're pretty comparable. I don't really have a problem with either. Some parts of the Bitbucket UI are nicer, some parts of the Github UI are nicer.

It's hard to beat free private repos but note that they are limited to 5 users. If you have a larger team, you've got to pay.

Perhaps not applicable to many here, but for students you can get unlimited users. It's a great offering and could well pay off in the future at Github's expense.

Another key distinction of Bitbucket is that you pay per private collaborator, rather than per private repo. You could have a 5 person team but 100 private repos, and it would still be free. After that its $1 per user per month. With Github, the 50-125 private repo tier costs $100 per month for an organization.

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