Assembla just announced that they would be charging for private spaces.  Announcement here.

They have a great service, but the only reason I chose them was because they were free.  I currently have 3 different projects up on there so I need to look for another SVN hosting company.  Saved me a bunch of headaches on my collaborative software development projects.

I thought I would use this opportunity to take a quick look at the competition out there, to find an alternative to Assembla for SVN hosting.

1) XP Development Tools

Note that it is eXtreme Programming development tools, not Windows XP development tools, that would be lame.  This sounds like a great option.  Offers up to 5 free subversion repositories.  Also allows unlimited number of repository users.  Also comes with a task list and other tools to manage projects.  I'm going to be getting an account and playing around with this one for sure.

2) Unfuddle

Unfuddle offers some better features for free, including a ticketing system and a max of 2 users and 1 project for free.  $9 per month gets you 4 projects and 10 users.  Here is the plan comparison page.

3) CodeSpaces

CodeSpaces is very similar to Unfuddle, offering 2 users and 1 project for free with ticketing.  For $10 per month, you get 4 users and 3 projects.  Here is the plan comparison page.

4) CVSdude

CVSdude is not only CVS, but actually is SVN hosting by default.  However, the free version only allows 1 user, and has no integrated ticketing support.  Ends up being $15 per month to have 5 users.

5) Bounty Source

This is a site that is designed around collaborative, with the site getting its money from connecting developers together, so it looks like its free for now, includes ticketing, SVN, and essentially unlimited users.  However, you don't have the option of making the project private.  Which is the reason I'm excluding sourceforge.net and google code projects from this list of alternatives.  In my situation, I need to be able to restrict who joins the project.