Toolradar Benchmark
What code hosting really costs for a team of 5, 20 and 50 developers (2026)
Toolradar data: For a team of 20 developers, code hosting costs from $73 a month (Bitbucket Standard, billed monthly) to $780 (Perforce Cloud), with a median of $90 across 5 tools, on prices confirmed on each vendor's pricing page on November 4, 2026.
Code hosting keeps a team's Git repositories in the cloud, with pull requests, code review and CI/CD. Plans are priced per developer a month; build minutes and storage beyond the allowance are usage.
Data as of November 4, 2026. Prices confirmed on vendor pages on November 4, 2026; re-confirmed every few days.
Key findings
- For a team of 5 developers, the cheapest confirmed code hosting is Bitbucket Standard at $18.25 a month (billed monthly); the median of 4 tools is $82.50 and the highest is Perforce Cloud at $195.
- For a team of 20 developers, the cheapest confirmed code hosting is Bitbucket Standard at $73 a month (billed monthly); the median of 5 tools is $90 and the highest is Perforce Cloud at $780.
- For a team of 50 developers, the cheapest confirmed code hosting is Bitbucket Standard at $182.50 a month (billed monthly); the median of 5 tools is $270 and the highest is Perforce Cloud at $1,950.
- 5 tools also offer a free plan that covers 5 developers: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, Perforce. Free plans are listed apart and never counted as the cost.
Source: Toolradar benchmark, prices confirmed on each vendor's US pricing page on November 4, 2026.
5
tools compared under the same method
3 left out, reasons below
$82.50
median monthly cost for 5 developers
$16.50 per developer, n = 4
$90
median monthly cost for 20 developers
$4.50 per developer, n = 5
$270
median monthly cost for 50 developers
$5.40 per developer, n = 5
How every row is computed
- For each team size, the cheapest paid plan with a published US price in USD that allows that many users. Plans sold only on quote are not counted.
- Monthly billing and annual billing are computed apart; annual is the yearly total divided by 12. A price with no billing term next to it is not counted, except a price per month on a page that offers no yearly billing at all (no monthly or annual switch, no mention of yearly billing), which is counted as month to month.
- Seat minimums, seat packs and user caps are applied, required add-ons and mandatory vendor fees are added, one-time setup fees are shown apart. A free plan is never the cost; whether it covers the team is shown apart.
- Each price is confirmed on the vendor's live page by two AI checkers from different model families, each quoting the page word for word. A price that is not confirmed is left out; a higher plan left out this way is skipped only when, at its last read price, it costs more than the cheapest confirmed plan.
- Not counted: taxes, usage (AI credits, contacts, tickets, overages), plans capped by usage volume (tickets or conversations a month), discounts shown only in the cart, behind a code or for a limited time, and optional add-ons.
- Rows are ordered by computed cost. No score, no rank of our own; sponsored or paid status never changes inclusion or order.
- A confirmation counts for 14 days: a tool not re-confirmed in that time leaves the tables until it is.
What a team of 5 developers pays
| Tool | Billed monthly | Billed annually | Per developer | How it was counted | Pricing page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitbucket | $18.25/mo Standard | not confirmed | $3.65 | its free plan also covers 5 (up to 5); no annual price confirmed | atlassian.comconfirmed Nov 4, 2026 |
| GitHub | $20/mo Team | not confirmed | $4 | its free plan also covers 5 (no user limit stated); no annual price confirmed | github.comconfirmed Nov 4, 2026 |
| GitLab | not confirmed | $145/mo Premium, $1,740/yr | $29 | its free plan also covers 5 (up to 5); no monthly price confirmed | about.gitlab.comconfirmed Nov 4, 2026 |
| Perforce | $195/mo Cloud | not confirmed | $39 | its free plan also covers 5 (up to 5); no annual price confirmed | perforce.comconfirmed Nov 4, 2026 |
No confirmed figure for 5 developers: Azure DevOps (no plan that allows 5 developers had its price confirmed on this read).
What a team of 20 developers pays
| Tool | Billed monthly | Billed annually | Per developer | How it was counted | Pricing page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitbucket | $73/mo Standard | not confirmed | $3.65 | no annual price confirmed | atlassian.comconfirmed Nov 4, 2026 |
| GitHub | $80/mo Team | not confirmed | $4 | its free plan also covers 20 (no user limit stated); no annual price confirmed | github.comconfirmed Nov 4, 2026 |
| Azure DevOps | $90/mo Basic | not confirmed | $4.50 | flat price for 5 users, plus 15 extra users; no annual price confirmed | azure.microsoft.comconfirmed Nov 4, 2026 |
| GitLab | not confirmed | $580/mo Premium, $6,960/yr | $29 | no monthly price confirmed | about.gitlab.comconfirmed Nov 4, 2026 |
| Perforce | $780/mo Cloud | not confirmed | $39 | no annual price confirmed | perforce.comconfirmed Nov 4, 2026 |
What a team of 50 developers pays
| Tool | Billed monthly | Billed annually | Per developer | How it was counted | Pricing page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitbucket | $182.50/mo Standard | not confirmed | $3.65 | no annual price confirmed | atlassian.comconfirmed Nov 4, 2026 |
| GitHub | $200/mo Team | not confirmed | $4 | its free plan also covers 50 (no user limit stated); no annual price confirmed | github.comconfirmed Nov 4, 2026 |
| Azure DevOps | $270/mo Basic | not confirmed | $5.40 | flat price for 5 users, plus 45 extra users; no annual price confirmed | azure.microsoft.comconfirmed Nov 4, 2026 |
| GitLab | not confirmed | $1,450/mo Premium, $17,400/yr | $29 | no monthly price confirmed | about.gitlab.comconfirmed Nov 4, 2026 |
| Perforce | $1,950/mo Cloud | not confirmed | $39 | no annual price confirmed | perforce.comconfirmed Nov 4, 2026 |
Excluded, and why
- AWS Codecommit: Its pricing page says AWS CodeCommit is no longer available to new customers; only existing customers can keep using it (read November 4, 2026).
- Gitea: Its Enterprise card prints two prices side by side, $9.5 and $19 per user a month (1-year commitment required), without saying which is the regular price and which a discount, so neither can be stated (read November 4, 2026).
- Plastic Scm: Its page (unity.com/features/version-control) says the first three seats are free and further seats are paid monthly per seat, but prints no price: the prices sit on a separate Unity Cloud pricing page (read November 4, 2026).
What each price leaves out
Plans, add-ons and usage charges not in the figures, tool by tool
- Azure DevOps: Stakeholder access: free and unlimited, but without Azure Repos (not a developer seat); Azure Pipelines parallel jobs beyond the free one ($40 Microsoft-hosted, $15 self-hosted a month) and Azure Artifacts beyond 2 GiB (from $2 per GiB): usage; GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps: optional, Code Security $30 and Secret Protection $19 per committer a month; Basic access included with Visual Studio subscriptions and GitHub Enterprise: not counted
- Bitbucket: Data Center (self-managed): contact us; Extra build minutes ($10 per 1,000 a month), Git LFS ($10 a month for 100 GB), package storage and transfer, extra runner slots ($15 each): usage
- GitHub: GitHub Actions minutes beyond the plan allowance (3,000 a month on Team), Packages storage and Codespaces (from $0.18 an hour of compute): usage; Git Large File Storage: optional, $5 a month for 50 GB; GitHub Code Security, Secret Protection and Premium support: optional add-ons
- GitLab: Month-to-month prices: not shown on the page as read; Ultimate: custom pricing, Contact us; GitLab Credits for AI features ($1 a credit) beyond the $12 a user a month included as a limited-time promotion: usage; Extra compute minutes ($10 per 1,000, one time) and storage ($5 a month for 10 GiB, billed annually): usage; Enterprise Agile Planning seats ($15 a user a month, Ultimate only), GitLab Dedicated and Flex commitments: not counted
- Perforce: Scale and Platform (self-hosted, billed annually): Let's Talk, price on request; Teams over 100 users: Assembla's managed and hosted options; P4 DAM, P4 Plan and premium add-ons (server administration and other services): optional, price on request
Questions
How much does code hosting cost for a team of 5?
Across 4 tools whose prices Toolradar confirmed on the vendor's pricing page (November 4, 2026), the cheapest paid plan for 5 developers costs from $18.25 a month (Bitbucket Standard, billed monthly) to $195 (Perforce Cloud), median $82.50 a month, or $16.50 per developer. Taxes, usage and optional add-ons are not included.
How much does code hosting cost for a team of 20?
Across 5 tools whose prices Toolradar confirmed on the vendor's pricing page (November 4, 2026), the cheapest paid plan for 20 developers costs from $73 a month (Bitbucket Standard, billed monthly) to $780 (Perforce Cloud), median $90 a month, or $4.50 per developer. Taxes, usage and optional add-ons are not included.
How much does code hosting cost for a team of 50?
Across 5 tools whose prices Toolradar confirmed on the vendor's pricing page (November 4, 2026), the cheapest paid plan for 50 developers costs from $182.50 a month (Bitbucket Standard, billed monthly) to $1,950 (Perforce Cloud), median $270 a month, or $5.40 per developer. Taxes, usage and optional add-ons are not included.
Which code hosting tools were left out of this benchmark?
3 tools were left out: AWS Codecommit (Its pricing page says AWS CodeCommit is no longer available to new customers; only existing customers can keep using it (read November 4, 2026)); Gitea (Its Enterprise card prints two prices side by side, $9.5 and $19 per user a month (1-year commitment required), without saying which is the regular price and which a discount, so neither can be stated (read November 4, 2026)); Plastic Scm (Its page (unity.com/features/version-control) says the first three seats are free and further seats are paid monthly per seat, but prints no price: the prices sit on a separate Unity Cloud pricing page (read November 4, 2026)).
About this benchmark
Why it exists. A vendor's page tells you its own price per developer. This page applies one method to every tool, under the same conditions, so the totals can be compared: seat minimums, seat packs, user caps and required fees are applied the same way for all.
Independence. Toolradar sells advertising, including sponsored placements on some pages. Sponsored or paid status never changes which tools are included here or their order: inclusion is the list of tools considered (all shown, in the tables or under Excluded) and order is the computed cost. There is no score or rank of our own on this page. See how we rate.
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