Pricing for GitLab

What GitLab can do for you

GitLab pricing structures and tiers

Additional GitLab costs to consider

Other vendors offering DevSecOps platforms

GitLab pricing – the Vertice verdict

GitLab pricing FAQs

DevSecOps is a workflow integration of development, security and operational practices. In the context of software development, it’s a process that improves the security of applications without impeding on the development of those applications. 

GitLab is an all-in-one DevSecOps platform that facilitates a faster path from concept to software creation. It saves developers time by enabling them to build software with fewer segregations and approval loops. Using GitLab, the entire development process is located in one place. 

GitLab utilizes a multi-cloud approach, spreading its capabilities across multiple solutions — such as Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services — to increase uptime and decrease the chance of data loss.

As with all DevSecOps platforms, security is an inherent feature, not something built-on at the end. The platform automatically scans for vulnerabilities with every code push, alerting developers to issues as they arise. 

GitLab customers develop their products 7x faster using the platform, boosting productivity, reducing software spend and freeing up time to refine software features.

GitLab offers new customers a 30-day free trial of its premium subscription, Ultimate. There are three subscription tiers in total, which we discuss below.

GitLab pricing — Free

GitLab’s Free subscription is designed for individual use and personal projects. It includes 5GiB of storage, 10GiB of transfers per month and 400 compute minutes per month.

GitLab pricing — Premium

Price per person, per month: $29, billed annually at $348

GitLab’s Premium subscription is designed for small businesses, costing $29 per person, per month (pppm). It includes 50GiB of storage, 10GiB of transfers per month and 10,000 compute minutes per month. 

In addition, GitLab Premium also includes account support, code ownership, protected branches, merge requests, advanced CI/CD, and more.

GitLab pricing — Ultimate

Pricing on GitLab Ultimate isn’t available online, so you’ll need to contact the sales team for a quote. 

GitLab Ultimate includes 250GiB of storage, 500GiB of transfers per month and 50,000 compute minutes per month. In addition, this subscription also offers free guest users, portfolio management, vulnerability management, security dashboards, dependency and container scanning and more.

For a full breakdown of GitLab pricing and subscription features, click here.

Although the majority of GitLab’s features are covered within your subscription, there are a few additional costs to consider. 

GitLab Duo Pro

Duo Pro is an AI-powered tool offering code suggestions, test generation and other developmental perks. It’s only available to Premium and Ultimate subscribers and costs an additional $19pppm.

Enterprise Agile Planning

This feature provides one workflow for every worker in the software development cycle, with analytics to measure velocity and impact, and executive dashboards offering organization-wide visibility. It costs $15pppm for a 50-seat commitment. 

Extra Compute Minutes

If you feel you have access to the right GitLab subscription but require additional compute minutes, don’t fret — you can easily purchase more at a rate of $10 per 1,000 minutes.

Storage

Similarly, if your storage space isn’t sufficient but the rest of your package is, an extra $60 a month will increase your storage space by 10GiB and your transfer capabilities by 20GiB.

Software development comes in many different shapes and sizes, and your team may not require a DevSecOps platform with as much scope or functionality as GitLab. At Vertice, the bottom line is that we’re here to aid your SaaS spend management, so here are some alternative platforms that might better suit your organization. 

GitLab pricing vs Bitbucket

Based on GitLab pricing for its Premium subscription, it’s clear Bitbucket is a far cheaper solution. Reviewers praise Bitbucket’s outstanding user interface, which enables easy changes tracking, branche management and developer collaboration. 

Bitbucket pricing also comes in three subscriptions:

• Free – 

• • A maximum of five users
  • Three application integrations
  • Ten deployment environments
  • 1GiB of storage and 50 build minutes

• Standard –

• • $3pppm
  • Unlimited users
  • Three integrations
  • 100 deployment environments
  • Standard account support
  • 5GiB of storage and 2,500 build minutes
• Premium –

• • $6pppm
  • Unlimited integrations
  • 99.9% guaranteed uptime
  • 10GiB of storage and 3,500 build minutes

As you can see from storage and build minute figures, Bitbucket offers much smaller capabilities for smaller team use. 

GitLab pricing vs GitHub Enterprise

Situated somewhere between GitLab and Bitbucket in terms of price and capabilities is GitHub Enterprise. This platform integrates with other DevOps tools such as issue tracking, code reviews and automatic testing. 88% of users report increased productivity on the platform. 

GitHub pricing includes a 30-day free trial, as well as three subscription tiers:

• Free – 

• • Automatic security and version updates
  • 500MB of storage and 2,000 CI/CD minutes per month

• Team –

• • $4pppm
  • Includes web support, access to GitHub Codespaces, protected branches and more
  • 2GiB of storage and 3,000 minutes per month

• Enterprise – 

• • $21pppm or contact sales to tailor your subscription
  • Includes central management of multiple organizations, annual SOC1 and SOC2 reports, advanced auditing and access to GitHub connect
  • 50GiB of storage and 50,000 minutes per month

Like GitLab, you can add extra storage and minutes to your subscription every month. 

GitLab pricing vs Harness

Harness allows subscribers to pick and choose precisely the features they want from the platform. As such, there are no specific features of each of its three tiers to report, nor is pricing available on any of them. 

Like all three of the other vendors mentioned here, Harness offers a Free plan, which includes code repositories, integrations, feature flags and cloud spend management. Its second tier, Startup, can accommodate up to 20 users; for information regarding its premium Enterprise package, you’ll need to contact the sales team.

Enshrining security into software is one of the biggest challenges for developers working outside of a DevSecOps platform. With GitLab, that challenge is taken off your hands, freeing up time spent on honing the software and developing its features. This boost to productivity brings software to market seven times faster than normal.

At $29pppm, GitLab’s midweight subscription tier, Premium, is significantly more expensive than other platforms such as Bitbucket and GitHub Experience. Which subscription you prefer will largely depend on the size of your development team and the features they require from a DevSecOps platform. 

If storage space, transfers and build minutes are your priority, GitLab offers significantly more than the other vendors mentioned here. And if you find yourself running low in any given month, you can purchase more of both for an additional fee.

But whichever platform you opt for, know that Vertice is an essential tool in securing you a fair price. Our customer purchasing teams work independently of vendors and entirely on your behalf, negotiating subscription contracts that are an honest reflection of the current market. We leverage transactional data from other vendor customers to argue your case, cutting your SaaS spending in the process.

The Vertice platform then enables users to optimize their SaaS licenses, providing greater visibility on scorecards, renewal dates, and the utilization of individual features in the stack. Get in touch to find out more.