niceee. love it :0

Wow!!! Very nice... Unique!

Eh. I was excited until I read: Organizations can choose from the Free, Silver, Gold, and Platinum plans. Small business FTL.

Cool idea, but pricing plans are painful. To upgrade from my personal medium plan, it'll cost over 4x the current price for 2.5x the number of repositories?

I can't convert to an organisation without bumping from $22/month to $100/month? No thanks...

Congrats -- this is great.

Nice work, guys! Been looking forward to this for a long time.

I also had to stop my conversion half way after I realized I couldn't keep my existing small plan. I'd like to use organizations but we're definitely not big enough (yet!) to justify $100 dollars a month. It seems like you might have more uptake if you don't restrict organizations to $100 dollars a month and up.

Seems like the price points don't work for a small business that wants to take advantage of organization features without spending a less than $100/month on the org plans, but the feature set is great.

The pricing plans you're putting forward are not very good for people between the low and high. How about something in between 22 and 100 a month?

Looks great - but I can agree that there's now missing a price point.

A business plan for around $50 would suit smaller businesses much better and also a higher price point for private accounts should exist I think.

This is awesome news!! I can't wait to migrate YUI over to it..

Why not offer the medium plan for organizations too? The pricing is way too high. Also, once an org is created, can we move an existing repo from the personal account to the org account?

I can't afford it either! Can't we have the older plans back?

Also think that should have a plan for small business. And there are small non-software-focused business that only need a small plan.

@kneath: does the grandfathering mean that a company account with, say, a medium plan can turn into an organization and keep the medium plan for $22? or just that if I had a large plan for my personal account, I could keep that even though that account size now only exists for organizations?

The post explicitly stated the latter, but not the former, and the perceived lack of the former seems to be what people are complaining about

Damn, we've wanted these features for a while now, but $22 -> $100 is such a jump we can't justify it.

Nice feature

Nice. Thanks.

That's awesome!

But guys, maybe its a little bit to expensive for the ordinary projects, that it's only starting at 100$.
Why not Small and Medium? I think, nice private projects which are going to be a startup with only a few programmers can't pay 100$, if they only need 2-3 repros and 3 users.

Is it possible to follow an organization like you can follow an individual?

Same as everyone. We would love the new features, and perhaps we could even justify going from $22 to $50, but to $100 is to demand too much of little companies like us.
So, I guess it's thanks, but no thanks.

It sure seems should be some sort of choice between $22 and $100. I've been on a medium plan for quite a while, and can expect to hit the 20 repo mark in the near future. But now I don't have a reasonable option for growth.

Very nice!

FYI, the "switch context" button is not working for me in Chrome/Mac/6.0.447.0 dev. The browse console says "Uncaught ReferenceError: jQuery is not defined" from https://assets1.github.com/javascripts/bundle_common.js?4df6da322f8409f3b297989c7adf6b3e20e4ba44

Would love to use the organizational features, but $22 -> $100 is far too huge of a jump. Can you create some middle ground?

This is fantastic. I've been wanting this for a long time for our work at Rackspace...partially so I'll prevent myself from accidentally commenting on this blog as rackspace instead of greenisus :)

Is it integrated with the API yet?

+1 for a cheaper/smaller plan

Going to parrot the request for a $30-$50 pricepoint. We are a startup with 4 coders, a few repos, but by no means do we have heavy enough usage to justify $100 a month, especially before we're profitable. I know you probably don't want to cannibalize sales for larger orgs w/ modest usage (your most profitable sector), but for the startup community it would be a really nice favor.

@technoweenie awesome :) i've been watching the API very closely these days. if there's anything I can do to help you guys out with it let me know: mike@overhrd.com

If you make a couple thousand dollars a month, or enough to support 3 developers, $100 dollars is three whole dollars per day. So each developer pays in a dollar. Yeah, the number of repositories doesn't scale anywhere close to linearly, but really, it's $100. That's the cost of your light bill likely. If you can't afford to pay the light bill, you probably need to rethink your business model/go to another cheaper, likely less convenient service. At the end of the day, if you can't afford it, you probably don't need it.

That said, I like the changes and hope my company someday has this growth problem :)

Excellent news, it's what we wanted. Thank you.

Sweet!

Geat feature, seems well executed!

josegonzalez: We're actually at the 20 repo limit, which means we're now better off creating a second account rather than upgrading. How does this help either GitHub or us?

It's tough to find the right price without leaving money on the table, but the new pricing does seem a little counter-intuitive.

It would be really nice to have a "bronze" plan or something similar, with about 5 private repositories for less than $50. Typically I find myself working for small companies that have distributed teams which various roles, which Organizations fits perfectly. None of these companies need 50 private repositories.

wew, ok, i think i need to comment again, yes the price are high. omg. how about 10$ ? or maybe 20$ ? or lesser ? and all that we need is just 1 repo, can we have that costumed ?

While I have no immediate use for this feature it's great to know it's available, however, I have to chime in with the crowd and say that $100/mo seems rather high and not small business friendly.

Hmm, neat stuff. My company's currently on the Small plan (just because we needed 2 private collaborators), so it's a little sad that I won't be able to use Organizations for it, but it'll just stay the way it is now, which has worked fine, so no real complaints on that end.

Using Organizations for open-source stuff, though, looks fantastic, and I hope I'll have a chance to use it soon.

Not sure the feature justifies the cost for me.

Awesome work guys.

So my company used to pay $50 for 50 repos. Now it's $100 for 50 repos. New features are cool. New price, not so much.

I love you guys. collectiveidea is in.

If you don't believe the value is worth 100$ a month, then don't buy it. If it would help you save even an HOUR a month then it's obviously worth it. 100$ seems really reasonable to me.

Have to agree with everyone else. Capping the personal account at $22/20 repos doesn't allow room for continued, steady growth. $22 -> $100 is way (way) too steep.

If I were in a position like that, I'd move somewhere else rather than upgrading. Coming from a personal (not an organization) standpoint.

Nice Thanks for the hard work on this!

@cschep, if a latte helped you save an hour, would you pay $20 for it? Seems a little steep for a latte. Agreed, if $100 is too much don't buy it and the market will eventually speak for itself, but relative to the other services our small business pays for (lighthouse, campfire, hoptoad, newrelic), $100 is a lot. Therefore, we won't get it till we need it, no big deal. I think it's important for github to know that it seems like a lot of small businesses would get something smaller if it were priced relative to the other small business plans they're accustomed to. Would the loss of revenue from people who would be willing to pay more be offset by the gain from a bunch of smaller upgrades? Perhaps the comments here will give them an idea.

I was in until I saw the jump in prices. Granted, $100/mo isn't that bad, but I don't spend 12 hours a year managing my business account which has a whole slew of public repos and only 3 private repos. Sure the 50 gives me room to grow, but it seems like there are a couple of missing price points there for people who don't need a whole bunch of private repositories.

All that said, it looks great, just doesn't fit with my needs right now.

Fantastic new feature! Too bad small businesses get the shaft.

Is there a plan for allowing teams to manage themselves, or giving people permission to manage a team? Making people owners just to manage a team doesn't feel right.

Like others I was excited by the new features until I saw the cost. $100 is too much for our small team, $40 and we're in.

@kneath - you keep saying that existing accounts are grandfathered in, but the upgrade process requires you to choose a new plan.

@felixge Each private repo at your end costs $1.10. No organization. Cheapest Organization account is $2.00. So you pay an extra 90 cents per repository at that price (less of a difference as you go up).

I'm assuming as time goes on, Github will further differentiate the product lines (I wonder how this affects Github:fi? ) and the 90 extra cents will probably make more sense. If you can't justify the extra amount vs. complexity of handling multiple accounts, then by all means just get multiple accounts.

whoops - forgot i was logged in as the company account. the twitter comment was me.

@kneath - we need some private repos but aren't willing to pay $100/month

Sounds like a great new feature-set... but I have to agree that starting at $1,200 per year means many startups and small businesses will never get to experience the improvement.

How about a smaller or more limited Organization plan to get us hooked on the new features :)

Thanks as always for the awesome service and continual improvements!

Piling on with yet another comment about the expense. Would love to use some of the features but can't justify the cost. Hopefully y'all don't have blinders on with regard to how many micro-businesses would participate for a much lower fee.

I really don't like this. As a small business owner, I was counting on not only the existing pricing structure, but the fact that repos got cheaper as you had more of them. I love GitHub, but this is way too much. I am unwilling to pay more than $1/private repo. (To be fair, we need lots of private repos (one per customer) so that's why I object.)

Even so, I will consider taking my business elsewhere once we reach that artificial cap of 20 repos.

Are there plans to add SSH keys at the organization and team level? We need deploy keys at these levels and read/write keys for pairing stations.

Also, +1 on a ~$50/mo plan

+1 for cheaper plans. Startups who want to have a few private repos but still contribute open source projects aren't likely to have $100/mo to spend.

I was really excited about reading this until I saw the price points. Youch. Those may be fine for the company I work for now, but not my own startup. This same problem still exists, even for the small guys.

1) Setup a new account so code can be under your "business" name
2) Add yourself (personal acct) as a collaborator to commit with your current setup/SSH key
3) Realize that makes you already using the full limit of 1/1 collaborator on private projects, even though it's just you working on your own code in your own account
4) Look to the new "organizations" feature to solve this
5) Feel deep disappointment and sorrow when you realize this isn't what they are at all, and the cheapest paid organization account is a whopping $100/month instead of the $7 or $12 you're paying now.

Simply put, way too expensive for the gains. +1 for smaller/cheaper plans.

congrats on the new features, this is good stuff! unfortunately, the intro price is also a bit pricey so i'm hoping to see an additional plan for organizations that's a little more affordable (than $100/month.) hope you can swing something. :)

Awesome... My compliments!

Thanks, Github team! I just love it.

Congrats but ... same problem here, too pricey for small teams. We're 2 developers working on a single private repo. It would be nice to have the repo inside an organization but 100$/month is too much, we'll continue with a personal account.

Great feature. Is there a way to convert a user to an organization?

I like the new features a lot but not enough to justify an additional 50$ /month.
The downtime issues and recent total-loss of one of our repos won't help the sell with my boss either.

I mean it's nice to see these improvements, I just wished our current $50 /month was enough to cover that & stay on-board with you guys.
Guess we'll just be grandfathered-in then. Too bad.

btw: Is this also the reason why you removed the 'copy colaborators from another repo' feature?

Looks really interesting - but it's too much of a jump for us as well - $22 to $100.

Our company converted to organization

https://github.com/Platform45

Makes my life so much easier.

Sorry, but I have to add my 0.02: At TweetDeck we have a large account ($50/month) with about 8 private repositories and a number of collaborators. The organizations feature-set sounds really useful, but is not at all worth doubling the amount we pay. If you'd like to encourage adoption of this feature, perhaps you should allow grandfathering into organization status as well? Especially since we only recently made the transition by moving all our code to GitHub.

I'm in the same boat as a lot of other commenters here. I love the organization features, but it's too expensive.

On top of that, because we are currently on the medium plan with 19/20 private repositories, and I know we're going to need a few more repositories soon. We're going to have to pay 5 times as much as we're currently paying.

Although I love GitHub, this forces us to look at competitors like Codaset, which will cost us ~25$ for the same amount of repositories (we need) and the same features.

No spaces allowed in the organization name ? WTF ?

nice to have.

cgriego: Don't use 'deploy keys', use ssh agent forwarding so it uses the ssh keys of the person doing the deploy :)
All you need is

ssh_options[:forward_agent] = true

in your capistrano file

Was about to switch for us, but I rollbacked when I saw the new plans ! Guys, seriously...

Same as gravis...

We can't justify $100/m on github right now.

A cheaper plan would be much appreciated.

Hi,

I want to transfer ONE repo from my account into an Organsiation i.e. wholesale move it lock stock & barrel.

I can fork my repo in there okay, but the issues in the bug tracker don't move. This makes moving it tedious.

How about a feature whereby you can simply relocate a whole repo between accounts? Surely it's as simple as git mv?

Thanks,
Niall

awesome! thank you github :-)

Great!

I've already sent an email out to my companies whole dev department to check this out. I love it.

The only think I have to say is it's going to be hard to convince the people who pay the bills to pay $50 more for the same amount of stuff and ~1 hour less work a month.

I'm afraid I have to agree with others, $100 is steep. I'd like to see a plan for a small business. If I had 10 collaborators and 20 clients...do I really want to spend $100 for this brilliant feature? Not really, but I wish I could.

@matrix9180 Thanks! That solved an additional issue we were having!

I always find "price points" a very strange animal. They must be the alien births of marketing think --that somehow ordinary folk will be fooled into thinking they are getting extraordinary value from an arbitrary number of things at an equally as arbitrary price. Ordinary people don't own calculators and certainly can't figure out x/$ ratios after all.

Come on. We're programmers! All of use can see right through the numbers. In other words: Stop yanking peoples mental chains and just charge by the repo. My 2c.

Could we get our github notifications to be filtered by what context we have switched to? As a Greasemonkey maintainer that reads all the volumes of stuff that comes in that way via email, my account has 276 unread notifications on the site that probably never will get any attention.

When in my work organization's context, that 276 is still showing, and potentially swallowing a non-zero amount of stuff that I should see about company repositories. Filtering the notifications to those a context is subscribed to would be helpful.