GitLab Changes its Pricing Plan; Drops Starter Tier

GitLab is doing away with its Bronze/Starter package priced at $4 per month. Users would need to either upgrade to the Premium tier priced at $19 per month or downgrade to the Free tier.

Existing GitLab customers who have up to 25 users would be able to renew their subscription at the current price of $4 for another year. They can also opt for a free upgrade to Premium along with a stage-wise discount at the next renewal: $6.00 on the first year, $9.00 on the second year, and $15.00 for the third year.

The free tier would still be available, and according to GitLab, the free tier contains 89% of all the features included in the Bronze/Starter package.

The decision to do away with the Bronze/Starter pack was taken as the $4 price was not enough to cover the infrastructure and support costs.

The now-discontinued Started package was for single team usage and included free features like requiring approvals on merge requests, pipeline code coverage rates, iterations, assigning multiple people to issues, iterations, assigning weights to issues, repository mirroring, code quality reports, code review analytics and more.