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GitLab CI/CD

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Overview

What GitLab CI/CD does

GitLab CI/CD is GitLab's pipeline automation feature, billed by compute minutes with a 400 minute free monthly quota on the Free tier.

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Where it falls short

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  • Free tier namespaces receive only 400 compute minutes per month per docs.gitlab.com; GPU runners consume minutes at up to 7x the rate of a small Linux x86-64 runner
  • Additional compute minutes beyond the monthly quota must be purchased separately through GitLab's pricing pages, which returned a 403 to this fetcher on 2026-08-19; the mechanism is pay-per-minute-pack rather than a flat overage rate published in the documentation

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