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Free allowance
50,000 compute minutes per month in the GitLab for Open Source Program (GitLab Ultimate features), charged at a program-specific cost factor of 0.5 for public projects in the program, which is 1 compute minute per 2 minutes of job time; the GitLab.com Free tier is a separate record; GPU runner...
Verdict
caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost
free tier
Identity
emailno card, no phone
Binding limit
write-gatedThe review fails first: the grant applies to a namespace in which every project carries an OSI-approved licence and the group is publicly visible, so a personal account holding one private scratch project is ineligible until the...
Evidence
documented21 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness
stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
Free tier50,000 compute minutes per month in the GitLab for Open Source Program (GitLab Ultimate features), charged at a program-specific cost factor of 0.5 for public projects in the program, which is 1 compute minute per 2 minutes of job time; the GitLab.com Free tier is a separate record; GPU runner access on this grant is covered in the record notes
unit minutes; metered on wall-clock; reviewed-programme-grant
Pricenone stated
Limits
  • write-gated (binding) The review fails first: the grant applies to a namespace in which every project carries an OSI-approved licence and the group is publicly visible, so a personal account holding one private scratch project is ineligible until the namespace is rearranged, and membership is renewed annually by re-application. source
Identityemail a GitLab.com account that owns a Free-tier group, since personal namespaces are not eligible; every project in the group carries an OSI-approved licence and is publicly visible; the application is a Customers Portal form that is reviewed, and membership is renewed annually
Egressnot stated
Interfaceunknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolinga .gitlab-ci.yml pipeline on GitLab.com hosted runners; any container image set with the image keyword; the saas-linux runners run in privileged mode and support Docker-in-Docker
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesThe GPU figure rests on one reading the pages do not settle. Usage is job duration / 60 x cost factor, runner type and project type sit in separate tables, and the project table gives public projects in the GitLab for Open Source program a cost factor of 0.5 with no runner qualifier. Read literally, a GPU job also costs 0.5, so 50,000 compute minutes are 100,000 job-minutes, or 1,667 GPU-hours a month. If the programme factor and the GPU runner factor of 7 multiply, 50,000 / 3.5 is 14,285 job-minutes, or 238 GPU-hours. The two readings differ by a factor of seven, and only a job run in an accepted namespace settles it. GPU runners are offered on Premium and Ultimate only, and the grant is Ultimate. The default runner is 2 vCPU and 8 GB, a job on GitLab.com hosted runners times out after 3 hours, and the grant is a monthly pool rather than unlimited time.
Parsed numbers
  • has-free-tier 1
Evidence 21
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/join/receive features of GitLab Ultimate including 50,000 compute minutes at a program-specific cost factor; requirements are an OSI-approved licence on every project in the namespace, no profit-seeking, and public visibility; membership must be renewed annually
2026-10-22docs.gitlab.com/ci/pipelines/compute_minutes/Free tier namespaces receive 400 compute minutes per month; project-type discount table: public projects in the GitLab for Open Source program cost factor 0.5, public forks of them 0.008, standard projects 1; runner cost factors small 1, medium 2, large 3, xlarge 6, 2xlarge 12, GPU standard 7, macOS M1 6
2026-10-22docs.gitlab.com/ci/runners/hosted_runners/gpu_enabled/Tier: Premium, Ultimate; one GPU machine type saas-linux-medium-amd64-gpu-standard at 4 vCPU, 15 GB, 50 GB and one NVIDIA Tesla T4 with 16 GB
2026-10-22docs.gitlab.com/ci/runners/hosted_runners/linux/saas-linux-small-amd64 is the untagged default at 2 vCPU, 8 GB, 30 GB; medium is 4 vCPU, 16 GB, 50 GB; large and above are Premium and Ultimate only
2026-10-22docs.gitlab.com/administration/cicd/limits/The default maximum time that jobs can run for is 60 minutes, settable per project between 10 minutes and 1 month
2026-10-22gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/351933the 0.5 factor was introduced because projects migrating to the OSS plan were using more than 50,000 minutes per month, where 50,000 is the OSS and Ultimate monthly limit
2026-10-30docs.gitlab.com/ci/runners/hosted_runners/linux/the saas-linux hosted runners run privileged and support Docker-in-Docker
2026-10-30about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/join/a personal namespace cannot receive the programme licence; a group is needed
2026-10-30docs.gitlab.com/ci/runners/hosted_runners/a job on GitLab.com hosted runners is capped at 3 hours
2026-10-30about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/join/the GitLab for Open Source Program grants Ultimate features and 50,000 compute minutes at a programme cost factor
2026-10-30about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/join/the programme is an application form on the Customers Portal, checked against the requirements
2026-10-30docs.gitlab.com/ci/pipelines/compute_minutes/public projects in the GitLab for Open Source program have cost factor 0.5
2026-10-30docs.gitlab.com/ci/pipelines/compute_minutes/the GPU standard runner has cost factor 7
2026-10-30docs.gitlab.com/ci/runners/hosted_runners/gpu_enabled/the GPU runner is 4 vCPU, 15 GB RAM, 50 GB disk and one T4-class GPU with 16 GB
2026-10-30docs.gitlab.com/ci/runners/hosted_runners/gpu_enabled/GPU-enabled hosted runners are offered on Premium and Ultimate only
2026-10-30docs.gitlab.com/ci/runners/hosted_runners/linux/the default Linux runner is 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM and 30 GB disk
2026-11-03docs.gitlab.com/subscriptions/community_programs/the programme grants 50,000 compute minutes per month with GitLab Ultimate
2026-11-03docs.gitlab.com/ci/pipelines/compute_minutes/public projects in the GitLab for Open Source program cost 1 compute minute per 2 minutes of job time
2026-11-03docs.gitlab.com/ci/pipelines/compute_minutes/the Free tier is 400 compute minutes per month, a different offer from the 50,000-minute programme grant
2026-11-03about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/join/a personal namespace cannot receive the programme licence
2026-11-03about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/join/the programme grants Ultimate features and 50,000 compute minutes at a programme cost factor
More fields 1
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Unknown values 6
  • egress metered: egress metering was not published
  • egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • interface: the access interface was not established
  • per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
  • reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
  • retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer