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CI runners

GitLab-hosted runners for GitLab CI/CD on GitLab.com, paid in compute minutes that each machine type uses at its own cost factor.

Operated by GitLab Inc. about.gitlab.com Status: active[1] Checked 31 Oct 2026

CI runners

GitLab.com hosted runners

Compare CI runners
Lowest price
$0.01 /min
saas-linux-small-amd64
5-min job
≥ $0.05
Linux x64, 2 vCPU · rank 15 of 15
Billed
unknown
prepaid credit
Sizes
12 sizes
Linux, macOS, Windows · 2–32 vCPU

What to know

  • PrepaidYou buy credit up front. Unused credit expires.
  • Max job 3 hA job is stopped after 3 h.

Plans

GitLab.com hosted runners: plans
PlanPriceIncludes
FreeFree[1]400 compute minutes a month, 10 GiB storage, 5 users per top-level group
Premium$29 per user /month[1]Billed annually; 10,000 compute minutes a month; larger Linux, Arm64, GPU and macOS runners
Ultimateunknown[1]Contact us for custom pricing50,000 compute minutes a month

Prices

GitLab.com hosted runners: runner sizes and prices
SizevCPURAMPrice
saas-linux-small-amd64Linux x64 28 GB $0.01 /min[1]
saas-linux-medium-amd64Linux x64 416 GB unknown[4]Cost factor 2 compute minutes per job minute; GitLab publishes compute minutes at $10 per 1,000, not a USD price for this size
saas-linux-large-amd64 Premium planLinux x64 832 GB unknown[4]Cost factor 3 compute minutes per job minute; GitLab publishes compute minutes at $10 per 1,000, not a USD price for this size
saas-linux-xlarge-amd64 Premium planLinux x64 1664 GB unknown[4]Cost factor 6 compute minutes per job minute; GitLab publishes compute minutes at $10 per 1,000, not a USD price for this size
saas-linux-2xlarge-amd64 Premium planLinux x64 32128 GB unknown[4]Cost factor 12 compute minutes per job minute; GitLab publishes compute minutes at $10 per 1,000, not a USD price for this size
saas-linux-medium-amd64-gpu-standard Premium plan NVIDIA Tesla T4 (or similar), 16 GBLinux x64 415 GB unknown[4]Cost factor 7 compute minutes per job minute; GitLab publishes compute minutes at $10 per 1,000, not a USD price for this size
saas-linux-small-arm64Linux arm64 28 GB $0.01 /min[1]
saas-linux-medium-arm64 Premium planLinux arm64 416 GB unknown[4]Cost factor 2 compute minutes per job minute; GitLab publishes compute minutes at $10 per 1,000, not a USD price for this size
saas-linux-large-arm64 Premium planLinux arm64 832 GB unknown[4]Cost factor 3 compute minutes per job minute; GitLab publishes compute minutes at $10 per 1,000, not a USD price for this size
saas-macos-medium-m1 Premium planmacOS arm64 48 GB unknown[4]Cost factor 6 (beta) compute minutes per job minute; GitLab publishes compute minutes at $10 per 1,000, not a USD price for this size
saas-macos-large-m2pro Premium planmacOS arm64 616 GB unknown[4]Cost factor 12 (beta) compute minutes per job minute; GitLab publishes compute minutes at $10 per 1,000, not a USD price for this size
saas-windows-medium-amd64Windows x64 27.5 GB $0.01 /min[1]
  • Jobs use compute minutes: job minutes x the machine type's cost factor. Factors: Linux x86-64 small 1, medium 2, large 3, xlarge 6, 2xlarge 12; GPU medium 7; Linux Arm64 small 1, medium 2, large 3; macOS M1 medium 6, M2 Pro large 12; Windows medium 1.
  • Additional compute minutes cost $10 per 1,000, a one-time purchase on any plan. Sizes with cost factor 1 are listed at that rate; other sizes show no per-minute price because GitLab publishes only the cost factor.
  • Included compute minutes per month: Free 400, Premium 10,000 ($29 per user a month, billed annually), Ultimate 50,000 (custom price). The quota is per top-level group, not per user.
  • Linux x86-64 large and up, Linux Arm64 medium and large, GPU and macOS runners need Premium or Ultimate.
  • macOS and Windows hosted runners are in beta. Windows VMs take about five minutes to provision.
  • Public projects in the GitLab for Open Source program use a cost factor of 0.5.
  • Using hosted runners requires a verified credit or debit card (a $1 authorization, not charged).

Terms

Billing

Payment
Prepaid credit[2]
Plan minimum
None[2]
Billing increment
unknown[2]Usage is job duration in seconds / 60 x cost factor; the docs do not say how it is rounded
Minimum charge
unknown[2]Not on the pricing page or the compute minutes docs
Per-job fee
None[2]
Credit expires
Yes[2]
Credit refundable
unknown[2]Not on the pricing page or the compute minutes docs

Limits

vCPU
unknown[3]Not stated in the hosted runners docs; each job gets its own ephemeral VM
Concurrent jobs
unknown[3]No concurrency limit for hosted runners on the pricing page or hosted runners docs
Max job length
3 h[3]

Setup

Setup billed
No[3]
Billed setup per job
0 s[3]

Platform

CI systems
GitLab[5]
Hosting
Managed[5]
Regions
us-east1, us-east5, us-central1, us-east-1[5]

Free allowance

Minutes a month
400[1]
Credit a month
None[1]
One-time credit
None[1]

Cache

Included
unknown[3]Hosted runners share a distributed cache in a GCS bucket; no quota is published, only a 5 GB limit per uploaded cache archive
Extra storage
unknown[3]No cache price on the pricing page or hosted runners docs
Docker layer cache
No[3]
Persistent disks
No[3]

Features

SSH debugging
No[6]
Static IPs
No[6]
GPU runners
Yes[6]
SOC 2
Yes[6]

Sources

  1. 1 about.gitlab.com/pricing · 31 Oct 2026
  2. 2 docs.gitlab.com/subscriptions/gitlab_com/compute_minutes · 31 Oct 2026
  3. 3 docs.gitlab.com/ci/runners/hosted_runners · 31 Oct 2026
  4. 4 docs.gitlab.com/ci/pipelines/compute_minutes · 31 Oct 2026
  5. 5 docs.gitlab.com/user/gitlab_com · 31 Oct 2026
  6. 6 about.gitlab.com/security · 31 Oct 2026

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