Our take
Pick Fork if developers who will finish evaluation then buy US$59.99 for that OS — not Tower Basic US$69/yr first unless they want seats + Mac/Windows in one subscription, and not if they need Tower Pro self-hosted remotes / team admin. Pick GitLab if teams who will stay on Free at $0 (5 users, 400 minutes) while they open a first pipeline graph, then Premium at $29/user/month billed yearly when they need unlimited
Best for
Fork A visual Git client you start at a public $
GitLab A DevSecOps pipeline you start at $0
Free plan
Fork No free plan
GitLab $0 · per user/month. No credit card. 5 users per top-level group. 400 compute minutes / month. 10 GiB storage. SCM + CI/CD. SAST. GitLab Credits are an add-on for Duo
Lowest paid
Fork Mac $59.99
GitLab GitLab Credits $1
Next step up
Fork
GitLab Premium $29/user/mo yearly
Runs where
Fork
GitLab Hosted
Watch out
Fork Paid after evaluation
GitLab Free is 5 users and 400 minutes
Last checked
Fork 2026-10-23 · git-fork.com
GitLab 2026-10-23 · about.gitlab.com/pricing
developers who will finish evaluation then buy US$59.99 for that OS — not Tower Basic US$69/yr first unless they want seats + Mac/Windows in one subscription, and not if they need Tower Pro self-hosted remotes / team admin.
Read the Fork pageteams who will stay on Free at $0 (5 users, 400 minutes) while they open a first pipeline graph, then Premium at $29/user/month billed yearly when they need unlimited licensed users and 10,000 compute minutes.
Read the GitLab page
