We've wanted to make this change for the last 18 months, but needed our Enterprise business to be big enough to enable the free use of GitHub by the rest of the world. I'm happy to say that it's grown dramatically in the last year, and so we're able to make GitHub free for teams that don't need Enterprise features.
We also retained our Team pricing plan for people who need email support (and a couple of other features like code owners).
In general we think that every developer on earth should be able to use GitHub for their work, and so it is great to remove price as a barrier.
The new flat price of $4/user seems perfect for us. I've already moved one private repo to our org account.
Thanks again ^_^
- Required reviewers
- 3,000 Actions minutes/month (Free for public repositories)
- 2GB of GitHub Packages storage (Free for public repositories)
- Code owners
We have multiple client sites (completely static) we're hosting on $5 Droplets (+GST+Backups).
We plan to deploy more such sites and keeping them on Gh-pages (auto build using GH-Actions) would reduce a lot of headaches for us.
Right now we've had all private repos scattered over everyones individual accounts and managing this has been a pain. So it would be nice if there is a single place to keep it all (thanks to free private repos for teams, we'll be migrating all of it to one place soon enough).
With 3 team members, $12/month for all the extra goodies seems reasonable.
We initially used BitBucket but switched to GitHub as we prefer it's UI/UX/Familiarity + a single place to manage both work/open source issues/prs etc is definitely easier.
Oh and gotta need that repo/contributor insight to compete with team mates :P