GitLab is phasing out the Bronze and Starter tiers and moving to a three-tier subscription model. Existing customers on Bronze and Starter tiers can choose to remain on the same tier until the end of their subscription period, and may renew at the current price for one additional year or upgrade to Premium at a significant discount. More details on the transition offers are below.
Why phase out the Bronze and Starter tiers?
Over the last few years, GitLab has evolved into a complete DevOps platform. Many Bronze/Starter customers adopted GitLab just for source code management (SCM) or continuous integration (CI), but GitLab is now a robust DevOps platform that can replace entire toolchains. GitLab customers are achieving faster releases, lower toolchain costs, and more productive developers.
The Bronze/Starter tier does not meet the hurdle rate that GitLab expects from a tier and is limiting us from investing to improve GitLab for all customers. Ending availability of the Bronze/Starter tier will help us accelerate development on customers’ priority needs such as improving usability, availability, performance, and delivering enterprise-grade security and compliance.
The Free tier of GitLab includes 89% of the features in Bronze/Starter, making it a great option to get started with DevOps. Last year alone, GitLab added over 450 new features to the Free Tier, and we never move open source features to paid tiers. In addition, we have moved our observability suite and many more features to the Free tier. For customers that require more control across their DevOps processes and support, the GitLab Premium tier is a better suited offering than Bronze/Starter. Learn more about Premium below.
Name change for the GitLab tiers
We want to make our product as easy as possible for you to understand and use. As part of that effort, we realized that inconsistent naming between our SaaS and Self-Managed offerings could be confusing, considering the feature set is largely consistent.
For that reason, we have decided to have consistent tier names for the two deployment options. There is no change to your existing tier subscriptions as a part of this rename, and each tier will continue to have SaaS or self-managed deployment options.
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