GitLab pricing
A single application for code, CI/CD and planning, available on GitLab.com or self-managed, with a free MIT-licensed Community Edition.
Cost at your team size
Cheapest hosted plan that allows the team, per month, before tax and add-ons.
| Plan | Price | Unit | Billing | Seats | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | — | free | max 5 seats | |
| Premium | $29 | per seat / month | billed annually | — | 10,000 compute minutes a month |
| Self-managed Community Edition | No licence fee | — | free | — | You run the server |
Read from the vendor’s pages on , in USD, excluding tax. Where a page did not say whether a price is annual or monthly, the table says “billing period not stated”.
What you get, and the catch
- Best for
- Teams that want to run their whole code and CI platform on their own servers, or one vendor for source, pipelines and issues.
- Watch out
- Free on GitLab.com is limited to 5 users per private top-level group, and Premium jumps to $29 per user.
The GitLab pricing page lists the same three tiers for GitLab.com and for self-managed installs:
- Free: $0 per user. On GitLab.com, private top-level groups are limited to 5 users, with 400 compute minutes a month and 10 GiB of storage.
- Premium: $29 per user per month, billed annually, with 10,000 compute minutes a month.
- Ultimate: custom pricing, with 50,000 compute minutes a month.
The page counts every user in a top-level group toward the subscription.
The self-managed free tier is the open-source Community Edition. GitLab's FAQ says the "Free tier of the self-managed offering" is "GitLab Community Edition, which is free to use". The GitLab FOSS mirror is labelled MIT License and describes itself as "a read-only mirror of GitLab, with all proprietary code removed". A team can run its code hosting and CI on its own server with no licence fee, and buy Premium later if it needs the paid features.
The 5-user cap on GitLab.com Free is the line to watch. A sixth developer means either Premium for everyone (at least $174 a month for six people) or moving to self-managed. We could not find single sign-on in the plan text we read, so check SSO with GitLab if you need it.
At 10 developers: $290 a month on Premium, or $0 self-managed plus your server. Compare it in the developer platforms category.
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