Code hosting · replacement recipe

Go from Bitbucket to GitHub

The job: Git hosting (Private repositories, Pull requests and code review, Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD, Jira integration). Pick where you are today and where you want to land; the move below follows your pick.

From · what you pay for now
Bitbucket
Bitbucket Standard · $3.65/mo
Year one−$6modeled
To · your pickCosts more in year one
GitHub
Free plan · $0 a month
Change where you land

The money

$3.65/mo today $0/mo

Bitbucket Standard

Year one, net−$6
Pays back in13.7 months

Modeled from public list prices, with your time at $50 an hour. Show the math

Does it do the job? 3 of 4 covered

  • Private repositories
  • Pull requests and code review
  • Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD
  • Jira integration

The work

Setup
About 1 h
Upkeep
None
Watch out
Doesn't cover: Jira integration

Make the move in four steps

  1. Export from Bitbucket

    Each Git repository, with its files and history. Format: Git repository

    Export steps

  2. Set up GitHub

    Teams that don't need Bitbucket's Jira-native workflow: GitHub Free has unlimited private repos and collaborators and 2,000 Actions minutes a month.

    Details

  3. Switch links and integrations

    Point links, embeds and integrations at GitHub, then send a test through every one.

  4. Cancel Bitbucket

    Turn off renewal before your renewal date, once the new setup works. Access runs until: Atlassian billing: 15 days after the subscription period ends….

    How to cancel Bitbucket
Open GitHubHow to cancel Bitbucket
Modeled, not measured. Savings use public prices and planning assumptions: the bill you stop paying, minus the new tool, your upkeep time and your setup time at $50/hour, over the first 12 months. Paths marked Tested by Stackcut were run end to end by us on our own products. They're our tests, not customer results. Check the must-haves in each recipe before you switch.

The whole recipe: 2 ways out, best first

What you use

  • Private repositories
  • Pull requests and code review
  • Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD
  • Jira integration

Not covered

  • Merge checks
  • Git LFS storage
  • Package registry
  • Deployment environments

Check before switching

  • You only rely on: Private repositories, Pull requests and code review, Bitbucket Pipelines CI/CD, Jira integration
  • Export your data from Bitbucket before canceling

Agents: get_recipe("replace-bitbucket") on the Stackcut MCP server.

2 ways out, best first

Switch vendorGitHub (free tier)Costs $6 more in year one
$3.65/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $44/yr · payback 13.7 mo
If your use fits the free tier (GitHub Free for organizations: unlimited public and private repositories and collaborators; 2,000 GitHub Actions minutes a month; 500 MB Packages storage; community support. Private repos get a limited feature set: no protected branches, required reviewers, code owners or wikis.).
Covers 75% of the core features (not: Jira integration)
Teams that don't need Bitbucket's Jira-native workflow: GitHub Free has unlimited private repos and collaborators and 2,000 Actions minutes a month.
How we got this
You pay now: Bitbucket Standard$3.65/user/mo × 1 user$3.65/mo
New cost: GitHub (free tier)free plan$0/mo
Difference each month$3.65 − $0+$3.65/mo
Over 12 months+$3.65 × 12+$44
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$44 − $50−$6
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $44 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Sources: atlassian.comgithub.comdocs.github.com
Switch vendorGitLab (free tier)Costs $6 more in year one
$3.65/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $44/yr · payback 13.7 mo
If your use fits the free tier (GitLab.com Free: 5 users per private top-level group; 400 compute minutes a month on shared runners (your own runners are unlimited); 10 GiB of Git and LFS storage per project; basic SAST, secret detection and container scanning. The self-managed Free edition has no user limit.).
Covers 75% of the core features (not: Jira integration)
Teams of up to 5 per private group: GitLab.com Free has 400 shared CI minutes and unlimited minutes on your own runners.
How we got this
You pay now: Bitbucket Standard$3.65/user/mo × 1 user$3.65/mo
New cost: GitLab (free tier)free plan$0/mo
Difference each month$3.65 − $0+$3.65/mo
Over 12 months+$3.65 × 12+$44
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$44 − $50−$6
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $44 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Sources: atlassian.comabout.gitlab.com

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