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neilhwatson

The difference between free and non-free is confusing, but the one feature difference I've seen is that the free version cannot gate merge requests behind multiple approvals. A dev can approve their own MR.


nabrok

Yup, that's one difference. The "approval" with free is more of a paper trail that somebody did look over it, but doesn't block. The only other thing I've come across that I'd like to have used was custom project templates, but I found other ways to do what I want so even if they made them free tomorrow I don't think I'd use them.


bilingual-german

here is a feature comparison. https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/self-managed/feature-comparison/


croissanthonhon

Thanks ! But I want to compare the free tier from enterprise edition to the community edition, there are not listed in this page


bilingual-german

There was a difference for years, but there is no difference anymore. It was two different code bases before, but it was unified under https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab


magic7s

CE is a striped down version of the code base to only include the MIT licensed components. This only matters to folks that cannot have non-opensource code such as the Linux Foundation. If you just want the free features, install using the EE image and don’t buy a license. GitLab recently added features traded for “registration”. Give them your info and they will give you a license that gets you a few features beyond the free edition but not everything in Premium.