GitLab 18.10: Agentic AI now open to even more teams on GitLab

GitLab 18.10 makes agentic AI available to Free GitLab.com teams without requiring a subscription upgrade. By purchasing shared monthly GitLab Credits, teams gain access to planning, code generation, automated code review, and pipeline troubleshooting. The update also introduces predictable flat-rate pricing for code reviews, while Premium remains attractive for teams needing broader platform capabilities and included credits.

Agentic AI for Free-tier teams

• Free top-level GitLab.com groups can purchase a monthly commitment of GitLab Credits through group billing.
• Credits are shared across the entire team, so organizations pay for AI usage rather than per-user access.
• Teams receive access to capabilities previously available to Premium and Ultimate customers, including:
  • Planner Agent
  • Developer Flow
  • Code Review Flow
  • Fix CI/CD Pipeline Flow
  • Agentic Chat
  • Code Suggestions
  • Custom agents and flows
• Group owners can use the GitLab Credits dashboard to monitor which agents and workflows consume credits.

From planning to deployment

GitLab describes a workflow covering the full software lifecycle:

• Planner Agent turns a natural-language feature request into structured issues with descriptions, labels, and relationships.
• Developer Flow reads an issue, generates code, runs tests, and opens a merge request.
• Code Review Flow performs multi-step automated reviews and posts inline feedback based on repository context and code changes.
• Fix CI/CD Pipeline Flow analyzes failed job logs, identifies likely root causes, and proposes fixes.
• Agentic Chat supports iterative tasks such as refactoring, extending, or explaining code.

Flat-rate automated code review

• Code Review Flow costs 0.25 GitLab Credits per review, regardless of merge request size, repository complexity, or internal processing steps.
• Four reviews consume one credit.
• The fixed price makes costs easier to forecast for both small and high-volume teams.
• Automated reviews can run concurrently, reducing review queues and freeing human reviewers to focus on architecture and business logic.

Why Premium may be the next step

• GitLab Premium costs $29 per user per month and includes 12 promotional credits per user.
• A 20-person team would receive 240 credits monthly—enough for approximately 960 automated code reviews or a mixture of AI workflows.
• Premium also adds advanced CI/CD, merge approvals, code owners, governance features, and unified project context.
• Teams that begin with Free plus purchased credits may find Premium more economical as AI becomes central to their development process.

Getting started

Free GitLab.com teams can purchase credits through group billing and begin using the Duo Agent Platform immediately. Teams seeking broader collaboration, governance, and CI/CD features can instead evaluate GitLab Premium or Ultimate.