Yeah I agree. There are only very minor differences.

Isn't being able to self host it on your company network a big important feature? Like for all the non-public branches and projects you keep internal. Gives you the same UX for everything.

This sounds pretty annoying though: https://docs.gitlab.com/administration/license_usage/

It is important for some companies. https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.22/admin/inst...

Is it more expensive?

Than Gitlab?

I'm not sure, you'd have to check their pricing pages.

It doesn't say does it? For self-hosted commercial use? Wish either were open-source.

That is important or critical in some companies. But that's surely not what they meant by fitting their "mental model" better.