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GitLab pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

GitLab (gitlab.com) is a code hosting & CI tool. Per-user subscription billed annually (Premium $29/user/mo, Ultimate by quote), with included CI compute minutes and paid add-on minutes, storage and AI credits.. Free plan: Free: up to 5 users per private top-level group, 400 compute minutes/mo, 10 GiB storage..

What GitLab costs

  • 10 developers: $290/mo (Premium $29/user/mo x 10 = $290; sold annually only (no monthly price listed). Free caps private groups at 5 users and lacks required approval rules.)
  • 10k Linux min: $290/mo (Premium x 10 = $290 includes 10,000 compute minutes/mo; small Linux runner (2 vCPU, 8 GB) cost factor 1 = 10,000 minutes, so no overage. Free cannot hold 10 users.)
  • 1k macOS min: $87/mo (Hosted macOS runners are Premium/Ultimate only (beta). Premium $29 x 3 = $87; M1 medium cost factor 6 x 1,000 min = 6,000 of the 10,000 included minutes, so no overage.)

Plan compared: Premium. Every price is for a 10-developer team on the cheapest monthly plan that covers the job (for Git hosts, private repos where a merge needs an approving review), with CI usage priced separately at 10,000 Linux minutes and 1,000 macOS minutes a month, seats and overage included. Free plans count when they cover the whole scenario and allow private, commercial use.

What GitLab does

Core: Team admin and analytics, Open source or self-hosted, Private Git repositories, Pull request code review, Hosted CI pipelines, Code security scanning, Self-managed edition, Self-hosting & open source.

Important: Agentic coding tool, Inline code completion (partly), VS Code and JetBrains extensions, Background cloud agents, AI pull request review, Privacy and compliance, Self-hosted runners, Package & container registry, Deployment management, Merge queue & PR workflow, Issues & planning, SSO, audit & compliance (partly), Static code analysis (partly), Dependency vulnerability scanning (partly), Secret detection (partly), Container & IaC scanning, Automated fixes (partly), Code coverage reporting (partly), Engineering metrics & DORA, Compliance & audit reporting (partly).

Also has: Codebase indexing (partly), AI-native code editor (partly), Terminal agent (CLI) (partly), Web and mobile access (partly), Slack and issue triggers (partly), Multi-lab model choice (partly), Bring your own API key (partly), MCP tool connections (partly), Rules, commands and subagents (partly), Plan and spec mode, Hosted macOS builds (partly), Mobile beta distribution (partly), Remote build caching (partly), Test run analytics (partly), Open-source community (partly), Integrations marketplace (partly), Malicious package detection (partly), License compliance & SBOM, Dynamic app & API testing, AI test generation (partly), IDE & pre-commit checks (partly), Multi-platform Git support (partly).

GitLab price hikes

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.

Every change we logged

  • Apr 3, 2023 · Price increase: GitLab increased the Premium list price by 53%, from $19 to $29 per user per month, effective April 3, 2023.
  • Dec 28, 2022 · Free tier cut: GitLab.com Free limited private top-level groups to 5 users, applied to groups created from 2022-12-28 and rolled out gradually to older ones.
  • Jan 26, 2021 · Repriced: GitLab retired the $4/user/mo Bronze/Starter tier for new customers, leaving Free, Premium ($19) and Ultimate; existing customers could renew once at $4 or upgrade to Premium at $6, $9, then $15 over three years.
  • Oct 1, 2020 · Free tier cut: GitLab.com Free CI/CD minutes were reduced to 400 per top-level group per month, effective October 1, 2020 (previously 2,000).

Sources

Pricing page: about.gitlab.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices from GitLab's pricing page and docs (cost factors, macOS runner tiers); changes from GitLab blog posts and PricingSaaS, which showed no list-price changes in 2026. The prior 2,000-minute Free allowance is not stated in the cited post; the planned web search could not run (search budget exhausted).