GitLab pricing 2026: plans and costs
How AI answers describe GitLab pricing
Several CI/CD tools offer free trials, but GitLab is one of the clearest options, offering a 30-day free trial of its Ultimate plan.
Compared to: GitHub · Jenkins · CircleCI
- The clearest options I found are Travis CI and GitLab, although they differ in how they structure their annual pricing.
- GitLab CI/CD: Free tier; Premium is listed at $29/user/month when billed annually.
- GitLab (GitLab CI/CD) : GitLab’s paid tiers (such as Premium at $29/user/month and Ultimate ) are explicitly structured and billed annually .
Quick pricing summary
- Free: $0 per user/month
- Premium: $29 per user/month, billed annually
- Ultimate: Custom (custom pricing, contact sales)
- GitLab Dedicated: Custom (contact sales)
- GitLab Dedicated for Government: Custom (contact sales)
- Worth noting: Premium is billed annually at $29 per user/month. Ultimate and GitLab Dedicated plans are sold by sales with custom pricing. Compute minutes and storage are GitLab.com limits.
Plans
Free
$0 per user/month
- 5 users per top-level group
- 400 compute minutes per month
- 10 GiB adjustable storage
- Source Code Management & CI/CD
- Static Application Security Testing
- Bring your own storage and runners
Premium
$29 per user/month, billed annually
- Everything from Free
- Unlimited licensed users
- 10,000 compute minutes per month
- Advanced CI/CD
- Team Project Management
- SLA Management
- Priority Support
- $12 included GitLab Credits per user/month
Ultimate
Custom custom pricing, contact sales
- Everything from Premium
- Unlimited guest users
- 50,000 compute minutes per month
- Application Security Testing
- Software Supply Chain Security
- Vulnerability Management
- Strategic Portfolio Management
- Value Stream Management
- Compliance and Governance
- $24 included GitLab Credits per user/month
GitLab Dedicated
Custom contact sales
- Everything from Ultimate
- Fully managed by GitLab
- Data residency in region of your choice
- Full data and source code isolation
- Bring your own key encryption
GitLab Dedicated for Government
Custom contact sales
- Everything from Ultimate and Dedicated
- Hosted on FedRAMP compliant infrastructure as a service
- Meets FedRAMP Moderate baseline security controls
- GovRAMP authorized for state and local government agencies
- Deployed on AWS GovCloud
- 50,000 compute minutes per month
- Unlimited guest users
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| GitLab Credits | $1 per GitLab Credit, billing varies by plan | Add-on to all plans; included credits on Premium and Ultimate |
| Compute Minutes | $10 per 1,000 minutes, one time payment | All plans |
| Storage | $5 per month for 10GiB, billed annually | Premium and Ultimate |
| Enterprise Agile Planning | $15 per user/month | Ultimate |
| Advanced Capacity | $12,000 per top-level group per year | Premium and Ultimate (GitLab.com) |
GitLab pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitLab | Free; paid from $29 per seat / mo | Yes | Per seat | — | |
| GitHub | Free; paid from $4 per seat / mo | Yes | Per seat | Development teams, from individuals to enterprises, that build, review, and ship software on one platform. | Compare → |
| Jenkins | — | — | — | Developers who need to build, test and deploy software reliably | Compare → |
| CircleCI | Free; paid from $15 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | Engineering teams that want fast, scalable CI/CD across cloud and self-hosted infrastructure, from startups to enterprises | Compare → |
| Buildkite | Free; paid from $30 per seat / mo | Yes | Per seat | Engineering teams that want CI to run on their own infrastructure and need it to scale to large build volumes | Compare → |
List prices as published on about.gitlab.com/pricing/. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.