When we rolled out our Buyer-Based Open Core model in 2018, what we laid out is that features are assigned to each of our four individual tiers based on who the buyer of the feature is. Features that serve an individual contributor land in Core/Free.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/03/30/new-features-to-core/
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