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$99/user/month is already quite steep to get improved visual widgets in pull requests, such as the licensing, vulnerability UIs. Especially, when you don't use the ticketing functionality of GitLab SaaS as you can't have group-wide tickets. Especially, when you need to contribute merge requests to a paying product to get support for popular package managers.

Personally, I think, needing to pay a lot more to get the same spec runners (same memory and two vCPUs) is not really competitive to compared to Github. I had hoped it Medium would become the standard runner instead of Small so it would be comparable to Github at least for the Premium and Ultimate customers. The idea of using SaaS is that you don't need to worry about self-managed runners.

Especially, when you compare it with the beta announcement from Github that they are introducing more powerful runners: https://github.blog/2022-09-01-github-actions-introducing-th...