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 Trigger.dev if app teams who will burn the Free $5 credits on a first durable task, then buy Hobby $10 or Pro $50 when concurrency and retention matter.
Best for
GitLab A DevSecOps pipeline you start at $0
Trigger.dev Long-running agents or background jobs you meter in credits
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
Trigger.dev $0 · /month. $5 free credits. 20 concurrent runs. 5 members. 10 schedules. 1-day logs. 10 Realtime connections. Community support
Lowest paid
GitLab GitLab Credits $1
Trigger.dev Invocation $0.000025
Next step up
GitLab Premium $29/user/mo yearly
Trigger.dev Compute $0.0000338
Runs where
GitLab Hosted
Trigger.dev
Watch out
GitLab Free is 5 users and 400 minutes
Trigger.dev Free is $5 of credits, then you stop
Last checked
GitLab 2026-10-23 · about.gitlab.com/pricing
Trigger.dev 2026-10-22 · trigger.dev/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Trigger.dev if
app teams who will burn the Free $5 credits on a first durable task, then buy Hobby $10 or Pro $50 when concurrency and retention matter.
Read the Trigger.dev page