At GitLab, we’ve been actively working towards empowering our community to make DevOps a reality for teams of all sizes. We’ve constantly moved features down to our free product to enable more users to benefit from it. The lower tiers offer more relative value and help to get more users access to a complete DevOps platform.
As a result, the usage of GitLab has grown significantly over time to an estimated 30 million registered users - of which almost 6 million GitLab.com users are on our GitLab.com free tier. While we are excited by this exponential growth, our underlying costs to support this growth have increased significantly. As GitLab matures as both a company and a product, we must focus on becoming a more efficient company.
We evaluted CI/CD minute usage and found that 98.5% of free users use 400 CI/CD minutes or less per month. By lowering the current monthly usage limit, we are not only aligning the CI/CD minute limits with usage and related tier prices, but ensuring we can continue to maintain our commitment to offer a free GitLab.com tier.
Changes to the GitLab.com Free tier
Effective October 1, 2020, we are reducing CI/CD minutes to 400 minutes per top-level group (or personal namespace) per month on the Free tier of GitLab.com.
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