GitLab Credits and usage billing

GitLab Credits are the standardized consumption currency for usage-based billing. Credits are used for GitLab Duo Agent Platform, where each usage action consumes a number of credits.

GitLab Duo Pro and Enterprise and their associated GitLab Duo (Classic) features are not billed based on usage and do not consume GitLab Credits.

Credits are calculated based on the features and models you use, as listed in the credit multiplier tables. You are billed for features that are generally available.

GitLab provides three ways to obtain credits:

• Included credits
• Monthly Commitment Pool
• On-Demand credits

For a click-through demo, see GitLab Credits.

For information about credit pricing, see GitLab pricing.

Included credits

Included credits are allocated to all users on a Premium or Ultimate tier. These credits are individual and cannot be shared between users. Included credits reset at the beginning of each month. Unused credits do not roll over to the next month.

For more information about included credits, see GitLab Promotions Terms & Conditions.

Monthly Commitment Pool

Monthly Commitment Pool is a shared pool of credits available to all users in the subscription. All users in your subscription can draw from this shared pool after they have consumed their included credits.

You can purchase the Monthly Commitment Pool as a recurring annual or multi-year term. The number of credits purchased for the year is divided in 12.

For example, when you purchase a monthly commitment pool of 1,000 credits, you will have 1,000 credits available each month for the contract term.

You can increase your commitment at any time through your GitLab account team. The additional commitment applies for the remainder of your contract term. You can decrease your commitment only at the time of renewal.

You can purchase a commitment of credits with built-in tiered discounting. The commitment is billed up front at the start of the contract term.

Credits become available immediately after purchase, and reset on the first of every month. Unused credits do not roll over to the next month.

On-Demand credits

On-Demand credits cover usage incurred after you have used all included credits and the credits in the Monthly Committed Pool. On-Demand credits are billed monthly.

On-Demand credits are consumed at the list price of $1 per credit used.

On-Demand credits can be used after you have accepted usage billing terms. You can accept these terms when you purchase your monthly commitment, or directly in the GitLab Credits dashboard. By accepting usage billing terms, you agree to pay for all On-Demand charges already accrued in the current monthly billing period, and any On-Demand charges incurred going forward.

If you haven’t accepted usage billing terms, you can’t use GitLab Duo Agent Platform and consume On-Demand credits. You can regain access to GitLab Duo Agent Platform by either purchasing a monthly commitment or accepting the usage billing terms.

For example, a subscription has a monthly commitment of 50 credits per month. If 75 credits are used in that month, the first 50 credits are part of the monthly commitment pool, and the additional 25 are billed as on-demand usage.

Usage order

GitLab Credits are consumed in the following order:

1. Included credits are used by each user first.
2. Monthly Commitment Pool of credits are used after all included credits have been consumed.
3. On-Demand credits are used after all other available credits (included credits and Monthly Commitment Pool, if applicable) are depleted and usage billing terms are signed.

Buy GitLab Credits

You can buy GitLab Credits for your Monthly Commitment Pool in Customers Portal.

Your GitLab Credits are displayed in the subscription card in Customers Portal, and in the GitLab Credits dashboard.

Credit multipliers

Credit usage is calculated based on the features and models they use. Some features have multiple model options to choose from, while other features use only one model.

Models

The following table lists the number of requests you can make with one GitLab Credit for different models. Newer, more complex models have a higher multiplier and require more credits.

For subsidized models with basic integration:

For premium models with optimized integration:

Features

The following table lists the number of requests you can make with one GitLab Credit for features that use a fixed model.

GitLab Duo Chat (Agentic) doesn’t use a fixed model, so credit cost varies based on the model selected for the request. With the default model (claude-4.5-haiku) you can make 6.7 requests with one credit.

GitLab Credits dashboard

The GitLab Credits dashboard displays information about your usage of GitLab Credits. Use the dashboard to monitor credit consumption, track trends, and identify usage patterns.

On the dashboard, used credits represent deductions from available credits. For overages (On-Demand credits), used credits represent on-demand usage that will be paid later, if you have agreed to the usage billing terms.

To help you manage credit consumption, GitLab emails the following information to administrators and subscription owners:

• Monthly credit usage summaries
• Notifications when credit usage thresholds are at 50%, 80%, and 100%

You can access the dashboard in the Customers Portal and in GitLab.

In Customers Portal

The GitLab Credits dashboard in the Customers Portal provides the most detailed view of your usage and costs.

The dashboard displays summary cards of key metrics:

• Current month usage: Total GitLab Credits used in the current month (if you have a monthly commitment)
• Included credits: Total credits included with your subscription (if you have a monthly commitment)
• Committed credits: Credits from your Monthly Committed Pool (if applicable)
• Monthly waivers: Remaining credits from waivers (if applicable)
• On-Demand usage: Credits consumed beyond your included and committed amounts. If you have enough waiver credits to offset all On-Demand credits, the GitLab Credits Dashboard hides the On-Demand card and displays the Monthly Waiver card instead.

In GitLab

The GitLab Credits dashboard in GitLab provides operational visibility into the usage of credits in your organization. Use the dashboard to understand which users, groups, or projects are driving usage, and make informed decisions about resource allocation.

The dashboard displays the following information:

• Organization usage: Total credit usage across your GitLab instance or group
• Detailed credit usage by user: Number of credits used by each user

View the GitLab Credits dashboard

By default, individual user data is not displayed in the GitLab Credits dashboard. To display it, you must enable this setting for your group or instance.