There are also some asinine divisions w.r.t. what goes in Premium vs. Ultimate.

For example, Premium allows us to configure our CI system to ingest Coverity scans, but only Ultimate lets us actually view them in the GUI. What the hell, guys?

We're not paying for Ultimate, though, unless they give us a sweetheart deal in perpetuity, but it's still kind of ridiculous.

That said, they do tend to trickle features down, moving them from higher tiers to lower tiers, or lower tiers to the free tier, so maybe in a few versions we'll get that support for no extra cost.

Also, pay only per year, instead of per month. So if you even want to get started you better be ready to fork over $1200 per developer immediately.

I can say a lot of bad things about Atlassian, but their price/benefit ratio is outstanding.

yeah ... I can't give Gitlab my money. We are ready to pay but the licensing model is just incompatible with our org. Very sad, I like the product very much but we are forced to keep coasting on the free version.