GitLab Expands Ultimate Plan with Unlimited Guest User Access and Consolidates Security Features for Enhanced User Experience
What happened
Between the Apr 11, 2025 and Jul 4, 2025 captures of GitLab's pricing page, Pulse recorded 12 changes: SLA Management added to Premium plan; Ultimate plan security features consolidated into broader categories: 'Application Security Testing' and 'Software Supply Chain Security'; GitLab Duo Enterprise add-on description updated from 'AI throughout the software development lifecycle' to 'AI transformation across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle'; GitLab Duo Pro add-on description updated to emphasize extending AI capabilities beyond the IDE into the GitLab UI; Ultimate plan guest user access changed from 'Free guest users' to 'Unlimited guest users'; Ultimate plan planning features consolidated: 'Multi-Level Epics', 'Enterprise Agile Planning', 'Portfolio Management' reorganized into 'Strategic Portfolio Management'; Premium plan feature 'Merge Requests with Approval Rules' replaced with 'Team Project Management'; AI Chat in the IDE added to Premium plan as new included feature; Premium plan feature 'Code Ownership and Protected Branches' replaced with 'Release Controls'; Premium plan user limit increased from 5 users per top-level group to unlimited licensed users; Premium plan Support feature renamed to 'Priority Support' with 'New' badge; AI Code Suggestions in the IDE added to Premium plan as new included feature. Pulse files it as a packaging change (feature added, feature change, add-on change, limit raised). Pulse's latest capture (Nov 15, 2026) lists Premium at $29, Enterprise Agile Planning at $15, Compute Minutes at $10 per 1,000 minutes, Storage at $5 and GitLab Duo Agent Platform at $1 per GitLab Credit.
This is the first pricing-page change Pulse has recorded for GitLab. GitLab has been tracked since 2025-10-05.
In the same window Aws and Gitpod also changed their Software Development & Testing pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- AddedPremiumFeatureNot listedSLA Management
- Feature changeUltimateFeature
Ultimate plan security features consolidated into broader categories: 'Application Security Testing' and 'Software Supply Chain Security'
- RewordedAI throughout the software development lifecycleAdd-on
BeforeAI throughout the software development lifecycle
AfterAI transformation across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle
- Add-on change—Add-on
GitLab Duo Pro add-on description updated to emphasize extending AI capabilities beyond the IDE into the GitLab UI
- RewordedUltimateLimitFree guest usersUnlimited guest users
- Feature changeUltimateFeature
Ultimate plan planning features consolidated: 'Multi-Level Epics', 'Enterprise Agile Planning', 'Portfolio Management' reorganized into 'Strategic Portfolio Management'
- Feature changePremiumFeature
Premium plan feature 'Merge Requests with Approval Rules' replaced with 'Team Project Management'
- AddedPremiumFeatureNot listedAI Chat in the IDE
- Feature changePremiumFeature
Premium plan feature 'Code Ownership and Protected Branches' replaced with 'Release Controls'
- ChangedPremiumLimit
Before5 users per top-level group
Afterunlimited licensed users
- RenamedPremiumFeature
BeforePremium plan Support feature
After'Priority Support'
- AddedPremiumFeature
BeforeNot listed
AfterAI Code Suggestions in the IDE
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premium | Feature | Not listed | SLA Management | Added |
| Ultimate | Feature | Ultimate plan security features consolidated into broader categories: 'Application Security Testing' and 'Software Supply Chain Security' | Feature change | |
| AI throughout the software development lifecycle | Add-on | AI throughout the software development lifecycle | AI transformation across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle | Reworded |
| — | Add-on | GitLab Duo Pro add-on description updated to emphasize extending AI capabilities beyond the IDE into the GitLab UI | Add-on change | |
| Ultimate | Limit | Free guest users | Unlimited guest users | Reworded |
| Ultimate | Feature | Ultimate plan planning features consolidated: 'Multi-Level Epics', 'Enterprise Agile Planning', 'Portfolio Management' reorganized into 'Strategic Portfolio Management' | Feature change | |
| Premium | Feature | Premium plan feature 'Merge Requests with Approval Rules' replaced with 'Team Project Management' | Feature change | |
| Premium | Feature | Not listed | AI Chat in the IDE | Added |
| Premium | Feature | Premium plan feature 'Code Ownership and Protected Branches' replaced with 'Release Controls' | Feature change | |
| Premium | Limit | 5 users per top-level group | unlimited licensed users | Changed |
| Premium | Feature | Premium plan Support feature | 'Priority Support' | Renamed |
| Premium | Feature | Not listed | AI Code Suggestions in the IDE | Added |
Values as written on GitLab's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of GitLab's pricing page (gitlab.com) from Apr 11, 2025 and Jul 4, 2025; the change is marked near the top of the page, where SLA Management now appears.
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GitLab, pricing history
Full history- Mar 3, 2026ImprovementGitLab adds Claude Code and Codex to Duo Agent Platform
- Week of Jan 12, 2026ImprovementGitLab drops three Premium AI features, adds Advanced CI/CD
- Q3 2025PackagingGitLab Reduces Ultimate Plan Trial Period from 60 to 30 Days, Impacting User Access
- Q2 2025Limit raisedGitLab Expands Ultimate Plan with Unlimited Guest User Access and Consolidates Security Features for Enhanced User Experience This change
Across Software Development & Testing in the same window
All Software Development & Testing changes- AwsJan 11Aws Kendra Expands Free Tier to Include GenAI Enterprise Edition, Offering 750 Hours for First 30 Days
- GitpodJan 10Gitpod Discontinues Flex Plan, Introduces Core Plan for Heavy Users and Small Teams with Enhanced Features
- GitpodJan 10Gitpod Introduces Free Plan with Unlimited Local Environments and Enhanced Capacity, While Discontinuing Pay-as-You-Go Plan
- GitpodJan 10Gitpod Unifies Pricing Structure with New Enterprise Plan and Enhanced Free Tier Features
- GitpodJan 10Gitpod Upgrades Free Plan AI Agent to Ona Intelligence Powered by Claude Sonnet 4.5
Questions about this change
Did GitLab raise prices in July 2025?
No list-price increase was recorded between Apr 11, 2025 and Jul 4, 2025. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: feature added, feature change, add-on change, limit raised.
What changed on GitLab's pricing page between Apr 11, 2025 and Jul 4, 2025?
Premium feature added: SLA Management; Ultimate plan security features consolidated into broader categories: 'Application Security Testing' and 'Software Supply Chain Security'; add-on: AI throughout the software development lifecycle → AI transformation across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, reworded; GitLab Duo Pro add-on description updated to emphasize extending AI capabilities beyond the IDE into the GitLab UI; Ultimate limit: Free guest users → Unlimited guest users, reworded; Ultimate plan planning features consolidated: 'Multi-Level Epics', 'Enterprise Agile Planning', 'Portfolio Management' reorganized into 'Strategic Portfolio Management'; Premium plan feature 'Merge Requests with Approval Rules' replaced with 'Team Project Management'; Premium feature added: AI Chat in the IDE; Premium plan feature 'Code Ownership and Protected Branches' replaced with 'Release Controls'; Premium limit: 5 users per top-level group → unlimited licensed users, changed; Premium feature: Premium plan Support feature → 'Priority Support', renamed; Premium feature added: AI Code Suggestions in the IDE. Pulse compared the captures it took on Apr 11, 2025 and Jul 4, 2025; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does GitLab change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for GitLab in the 90 days before this one; GitLab has been tracked since 2025-10-05.
