The incentive changes for this are so massive, nice &quot;experiment&quot; from an economics perspective.<p>1. penalizes OpenSource organizations that need a few private repos for password, server configuration or other things. Was 25$ before, now for example Doctrine with 48 collaborators it would be 394$. Even if just the admins have access to that repository.<p>2. penalizes collaboration, inviting every non-technical person in the company? 2-5 employees of the customer? not really. Will lead organizations to create a single &quot;non-technical&quot; user that everyone can use to comment on stuff. not to mention bots, especially since you need users for servers in more complex deployment scenarios.<p>3. rewards having many repos, small throw away stuff and generally will lead to &quot;messy&quot; repositories lying around everywhere that are committed on once or twice and never touched again. &quot;Not having to think about another private repository&quot;, imho will produce technical debt for organizations.<p>4. users in many private orgs will need to pay or get paid for every organization each. I myself will be worth 45$ now for Github, being in private repositories of five different companies.<p>All in all, this just shows that Github does not care as much about open source anymore as it cares about Enterprise.<p>Btw: Mentioning the price jumps in repository usage of the old pricing is not really helpful. Consider a pricing that would be per repository (1$ for personal, 2$ for organizations) and doesnt have jumps and compare that to the new per using pricing. The new pricing only feels better for some, because you pay marginal costs for every single user instead of the old pricing where every 50 repositories you have to suddenly pay 100$ extra.<p>Edit: Forgot about bots, and deployment machine users (which even Github recommends for many scenarios)