GitLab CE (Community Edition is Free) and is truly great we use it in our own internal software development process.

However for a bigger enterprise they require more functionality here is a comparison of the differences between the Community and Enterprise Editions.

https://about.gitlab.com/features/#compare

Several pricing options for EE but essentially the base cost is $39 /year per user.

https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/

gitlab.com runs EE though doesn't it? You only need to pay if you want self hosted EE.

It does, yes :)

Great to know, thank you! However our requirements were offsite and must be why I never knew about the free EE hosted on GitLab!

I've only ever seen the trial but I could be wrong!

You are replying to the CEO of Gitlab... :P

Which is very OK :) BTW we published a blog on SaaS git pricing a minute ago https://about.gitlab.com/2016/05/11/git-repository-pricing/

Is gitlab still using MySQL or its variants behind the scenes?

The gitlab import is really SLOW and there is no clear indication of the progress. Try to import https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git, it takes forever.