There is the threshold effect to consider also.<p>Maintaining a gitlab instance is kind of ridiculous vs $300&#x2F;yr.<p>On the other hand, its not exactly rocket surgery and $1300&#x2F;yr would probably cover it.<p>So its not a theoretical issue in an isolated abstract sense but market position issue. The competition isn&#x27;t the employee lunch fund but is actual competitors.<p>Aside from maintaining your own instance, I have no experience or contact with them but githost.io offers quite a bit for less than $100&#x2F;month.