It adds up. 29$ for GitHub, 19$ for GitHub Copilot, 20$ for ChatGPT Plus, a few codespaces and runners, perhaps 7.5$ for the sadomasochist project managers who wants Jira, and you may get a nice bill at the end of the month.
And then you have people like GitKrakken who ask 19$ for a git client, or Teleport who ask 36$ for a ssh client.
It does, but you have to associate these cost as part of the employee expense and not a separate budget line item. An extra $100 / month for tools needed by somebody being paid $5,000+ / month is nothing.
In my previous organisation $19/month (IIRC) was a dealbreaker. That was non-US so salaries are lower, and suddenly I had to explain why we absolutely needed the paid version so much (instead of sticking to the free one). To make it worse, most of the people that had access to gitlab were researchers/managers/non-technical people and not actually developers, so only a few people would benefit from the paid version. So we never bought the paid version.
And then you have people like GitKrakken who ask 19$ for a git client, or Teleport who ask 36$ for a ssh client.