Comments on: Why GitHub’s pricing model stinks (for us)

By: chris

chris — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:55:00 +0000

We had a similar concern – but i emailed them and they let me onto one of the ‘legacy’ plans – i get 50 repos for $50/month (i’m not sure what our limit is on collaborators, suffice to say we haven’t hit it) – might be worth seeing if they still offer this?

By: iwod

iwod — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:45:00 +0000

The model Github uses generally encourages Open Source Code. By being open they dont charge you anything.

Having said that i think Github should bump the private repo allowance by at least double the number. Even Doubling i would still consider it to be low number.

By: Greg Taylor

Greg Taylor — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:11:00 +0000

wow, I’m shocked to see all of the flaming in response to this. He brings up a very valid point. Not all companies are in situations where they can directly offload the cost to the customer (situations where the customer doesn’t own the code/product).

I have really enjoyed BitBucket’s pricing model, though we still use GitHub as our primary store. All of the smaller projects that we’d like to put on our GitHub org (but can’t due to the numbers game) end up on BitBucket. I too wish they billed by the user instead of the repo.

By: jbogard

jbogard — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:36:00 +0000

You’re right, I shouldn’t post about pricing models about services I love that don’t work for us. How offensive of me! What a jerk!

By: AK

AK — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:31:00 +0000

Maybe that is why they charge that unpredictable price

Joke aside.. I have been using BitBucket for last 6-7 months(personal projects, small level) and I see they offer all of these.

By: Henning Koch

Henning Koch — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:11:00 +0000

Limiting plans by number of users is just as annoying when you are a small team with many clients. Looking at you, Pivotal Tracker.

By: Thomas Schranz

Thomas Schranz — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:14:00 +0000

We are using pull requests & code reviews on Bitbucket and really love the experience.

By: Gif Pasta

Gif Pasta — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:08:00 +0000

Should this be filed under no-duh?

GitHub is about open source and community. Private is the way they make money to support all the free stuff.

We started with Bitbucket, mostly because of pricing, but also because of JIRA integration and the other Atlassian tools. Github issues are nice, but not really for “enterprise level”

As bitbucket is also private and we manage issues in JIRA, to us the difference between github and bitbucket was only on price because at the end of the day all anyone really sees is “origin”

By: James Bond

James Bond — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:04:00 +0000

Crying publicly about such business model without discussing it prior with the owner (GitHub) is simply dumb. I’m sure, if you discuss it prior with the owners, you will get a pricing suitable for your needs. If you cannot predict how much you will need, it’s not their fault.They have also an enterprise solution with work very well. GitHub don’t make public posts about your company that it stinks because you can’t predict your needs.

So please don’t be a jerk and don’t post such offending content

By: Andrew Tobin

Andrew Tobin — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 03:58:00 +0000

Bb also has issues, pages, wiki and probably etc – it also can be a git repo on Bb (they support Git and Bb), but in the end Github is just a nicer experience.