Many developers were unhappy with the news of Microsoft acquiring GitHub , and have turned to alternative platforms. If you're one of them, there's good news for you
One of GitHub's biggest rivals, GitLab, took advantage of this dissatisfaction to attract even more developers to its platform, making its Ultimate and Gold free for educational institutions and open source.
Ultimate and Gold typically cost $99 per month and cover almost every useful feature a developer needs.
In addition to the basic features of GitLab Core, Starter, and Premium services, the Ultimate and Gold plans offer advanced management and security features. They will allow you to access features such as epics, roadmap, Kubernetes cluster monitoring, static application security testing, container scanning, etc.
The feature missing from these two free offerings is Support, but you can purchase it at a very low price, for just $4.95 per month. Another limitation is that they only apply to educational institutions and not individual students.
“We’re making GitLab free for education because we want students to use our most advanced features,” the company explains in announcement . “We’d like more open source projects to use GitLab. With today’s announcement, open source projects that can and do run on proprietary software can use all of GitLab’s features.”
By charging for non-open source projects, GitLab aims to maintain a sustainable business model.
