GitLab cut free CI/CD minutes to 400 per month

GitLab.com Free CI/CD minutes were reduced to 400 per top-level group per month, effective October 1, 2020 (previously 2,000).

What changed

  • Free tier cut, Oct 1, 2020
  • Before: 2,000 CI minutes/mo on Free
  • After: 400 CI minutes/mo on Free

Cheaper alternatives to GitLab

At a 10-developer team, GitLab costs $290/mo. 2 code hosting & CI tools cost less:

  • GitHub: $40/mo (Team), covers 82% of GitLab; missing or partial: Self-managed edition (partly), Self-hosting & open source (partly), Inline code completion, VS Code and JetBrains extensions, Deployment management (partly)
  • Bitbucket: $80/mo (Premium), covers 59% of GitLab; missing or partial: Pull request code review (partly), Code security scanning (partly), Self-managed edition (partly), AI pull request review (partly), Self-hosted runners (partly)

GitLab alternatives: 2 code hosting & CI tools compared, at every size.

Sources

Every price and change for GitLab: GitLab.