Super affordable for smaller teams!
April 11, 2018

Super affordable for smaller teams!

Fedor Paretsky | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Bitbucket

Bitbucket is used company-wide in all of our Engineering departments for a variety of products. We organized a large number of repositories in one organization and have each of the repository's permissions set to allow writing/reading for only a specific sub-group of our entire company. When creating a new repository, we typically clone a default repository, which additionally clones all of our personalized settings for the repo, such as webhooks, permissions, descriptions, etc...
  • Affordable for larger teams that require many reports split up separately into sub-groups.
  • Easy to customize all repo permissions and settings.
  • Awesome in-browser code viewer, that was just released!
  • Extremely intuitive and well-done UI, allowing viewing of many reports and handling code and files extremely simple/quick.
  • Private repositories are only free for up to 5 team members.
  • Many of the features of Bitbucket are clearly still a work-in-progress. You can see that some of the features aren't stable, and there are still some bugs in the releases that they make.
  • Searching repositories are not possible in the browser, unlike GitHub. You must download the entire repository or branch first, and then perform the search locally.
  • The fact that Bitbucket is free meant that it had no impact on our ROI, or if any, it was positive.
  • Reviewing and performing version-control on the code for our startup for the free price we received is a positive ROI.
Both GitHub and Gitlab are viable alternatives to using Bitbucket, but one of them is not affordable for smaller teams that need to share repositories for free, and the other one is self-hosted, both creating costs that may not be affordable for a startup that is yet to have raised any money in a funding round.
Bitbucket is most suited for small startups that are not at a stage to pay for company pricing for VCMs and do not want to host code on their own servers. It provides the necessary features to ensure that releases are a success, and unlike its competitors, Bitbucket does this for free. Bitbucket is less-suited for teams that are larger and companies that have large departments working on a single repository. At that point, it is time to look at self-hosting VCMs.