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Thanks for the question! We don't typically compare our pricing to GHE but rather to other similar SaaS tools (check out some merge queue providers - which is just one feature of Graphite). GHE has a very different business model - they keep the per seat price low to charge for compute in CI/CD or upsells into Microsoft Azure. As another counterexample, Superhuman is $30/user/mo for an "add-on" to Gmail (a free product).

Every single feature of Graphite’s workflow is optimized around stacking, including: - Beautiful code review interface - PR inboxd - Stack-aware merge queue - Team insights - Integration with your favorite tools like Slack and VS Code

Graphite is scalable, and is built for professional software development. Give it a try for free to see for yourself :)

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Here's the thing: I think it's a bad idea to try it out, because I can already see in the pricing tiers that if I would like Graphite, I cannot afford it for my team because of the pricing structure.

I work for a startup that is less than 3 years old and has ~90 employees of which ~50 are software engineers and data scientists (people writing code). We're VC funded and not profitable yet. When I see a pricing tier called "Enterprise", I do not expect to fall under that tier as a small, young company. But looking at the limits of the Team tier, we would probably not fit under that tier because we have more than 30 repositories. We also use Github Enterprise (cloud version), which puts us in your Enterprise tier as well.

If the Team tier is already $30/user/month, I'm afraid to even learn what the Enterprise tier is like. I guess we're not your target audience and that is okay.

Here is when I would consider paying for your product: remove the repo limit (or make it much bigger) and half the price. That would make it affordable and more in line with the other tools we're paying for.

Hi there, thanks for the question! One quick clarification - the 30 repository limit is per user (not per org), so I expect you would still fall under the Team tier. I'd encourage you to try Graphite out for free - many companies have already found tons of value out of Graphite and are paying for us now. Also - we have a little promo code for users from Hacker News - try out HN15 :)

Thanks for the clarification. The limit of 30 repos per user is indeed more reasonable. The support for Github Enterprise which would necessitate the Enterprise tier, is that referring to all flavors of GH Enterprise or only the on prem version?

That refers only to the on-prem version; we support GitHub enterprise cloud out-of-the-box, even on the free tier.

Hearing about your company size and setup, you're actually in our team plan's sweet spot. If you give it a shot, reach out and let us know what you think!

Hey DandyDev, our Graphite Free and Team tiers do support our GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers.

If you need GitHub Enterprise Server support (eg. on-prem) then that would require our Graphite Enterprise tier...

Typing this out I realize this is confusing and will reconsider the naming of our tiers.

> We also use Github Enterprise (cloud version), which puts us in your Enterprise tier as well.

Why is this at all surprising? If you're using GitHub Enterprise, why wouldn't you be using the Enterprise tier of other software?

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