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Today, GitHub announced free private repositories with unlimited collaborators. This is great news for developers worldwide. GitHub also announced that they are lowering the price of their paid Team product to the same price as GitLab’s Bronze/Starter offering: $4 per month per user.

At GitLab, we’ve offered free private repositories as part of our Core/Free product from the start. We also recently made 18 additional features open source, which will help teams collaborate more effectively in a single product, and we’ve been steadily gaining market share in the version control space, with users switching from BitBucket and GitHub to GitLab.

What your team loses when you go from GitHub Pro to Free

When you go from GitHub Pro to GitHub Free, you lose some features that are already free and available to all users on GitLab and Gitlab.com:

Protected branches in private repos

Draft PRs in private repos

GitHub Pages in private repos (using one)

Wikis in private repos

What your team gains by using GitLab Bronze/Starter

With GitLab, you get even more features than GitHub Team. When there are multiple users on the same team, use GitLab Bronze/Starter:

Code owners in private repos

Multiple issue assignees in private repos

Multiple PR assignees in private repos

Code review automatic assignment in private repos

Standard support

GitLab is more complete

GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application. Here is a visual comparison:

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