[speedgoose]

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.

[brightball]

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.