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Bitbucket provides free private repos, and for smaller development teams and/or companies not wanting to deal with the cost of Github (which does admittedly grow exponentially the more repos you require), Bitbucket is a fine choice.

When we were making the decision at my company, we went with Github because the dev team cared about having the little green squares show up on the "activity" chart for their account's... I know, petty, but it's something, and since most of us do FOSS projects, it's a status thing.

It used to be any commit that made it into a repo's master branch, the green squares showed up, even if it was a private repo (it just didn't show details of the repo to public users). But now, those don't show up to the public, only the user themselves sees them while logged in... so if we were making the decision today, I'd probably lean towards Bitbucket.

which does admittedly grow exponentially the more repos you require

Just to clarify, GH's pricing doesn't actually grow exponentially. The per repo price gets lower the more you pay for:

5 private repos: $7

10 private repos: $12

20 private repos: $22

50 private repos: $50

For a team, pricing is different. 50 repos is $100 a month, 125 repos is $200 a month ($2,400 a year). Granted, it's not "exponential", I was using a figure-of-speech referring to the pricing becoming significant.

For an internal-dev team which generates a great deal of new repos throughout the year (one-off scripts/programs for different departments, etc...), this adds up very quickly.

If you reach that 126th repo, it jumps to $450 monthly or $5,400 a year. At those prices you get questions from Accounting about why we aren't hosting this internally...

GitHub Enterprise is an appliance VM you run internally. It's charged per seat. The last enterprise-y company I was at used it primarily because you keep your code inside the firewall, but also because the pricing model is more aligned with the usage in that environment, as you suggest.

GitHub Enterprise is even more expensive than what I quoted above. The quotes above are for private "team" repos under an "Organization" on Github (they host it all).

GitHub Enterprise is pretty pricey. It's almost exclusively about being able to host internally.

It can depend highly on your needs. We have a small team but a large number of private repositories. Github basis prices on number of repositories, which makes them incredibly expensive for us. Bitbucket basis prices on team size, which made them cheap for us.

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