[ianp]

It may be $7/mo, but you only get 5 private repos and one collaborator. If you want more than a small handful of private projects, or even want to work on a private project with another person you need to cough up $12/mo, which is infeasable for just a hobby project or two.

BitBucket, on the other hand, gives you unlimited public and private repositories and 5 collaborators for /free/.

For a business, $25/mo isn't much, but for personal projects i prefer free over paid.

[Seth_Kriticos]

Are you kidding me?; for private stuff I use a shared hosting service with shell access for $35 a year, unlimited repos and contributors. And I even host a well visited wiki on that server.

Anything else that involves other people and is private is somewhat of ant oxymoron. And for OSS like stuff there are more than enough services on github in the free plan.

I seriously can't comprehend your use case here.

[cageface]

I think this is just going to mean that Bitbucket attracts a lot of junky, abandoned private hacks. $7-$12 a month is peanuts for anything serious.

[ianp]

Even if $7-12/mo is peanuts to you (it definetly isn't to me), it's still $ vs free. And even comparing bitbucket's free plan vs github's $12 plan, bitbucket's /still/ provides more value.

As for if github is so much better as to be worth the extra money is an entirely different flamew..discussion.