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 licensed users and 10,000 compute minutes.
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Our take
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 licensed users and 10,000 compute minutes. Pick Tower if developers who will finish the 30-day Pro trial then pick Basic US$69/yr — or Pro US$129/yr when they need self-hosted remotes / Pro workflows, not Fork US$59.99 first unless they
Best for
GitLab A DevSecOps pipeline you start at $0
Tower A visual Git client you start at a public $
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
Tower No free plan
Lowest paid
GitLab GitLab Credits $1
Tower Enterprise $12.42/user/mo
Next step up
GitLab Premium $29/user/mo yearly
Tower Basic $69/yr
Runs where
GitLab Hosted
Tower Local or hosted
Watch out
GitLab Free is 5 users and 400 minutes
Tower No free forever
Last checked
GitLab 2026-10-23 · about.gitlab.com/pricing
Tower 2026-10-23 · git-tower.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Tower if
developers who will finish the 30-day Pro trial then pick Basic US$69/yr — or Pro US$129/yr when they need self-hosted remotes / Pro workflows, not Fork US$59.99 first unless they want a one-time license, and not if they need a free-forever GUI.
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