Is GitLab free for commercial use?

Yes! We provide free Ultimate licenses, along with 50K CI minutes/month, to qualifying open source projects, educational institutions, and startups . Find out more by visiting our GitLab for Open Source, GitLab for Education, and GitLab for Startups program pages.

GitLab Patch Release: 14.7. 6 .

For a period of time, GitLab pricing tiers also used “CE” and “EE”. When the free, self-managed tier was changed from “CE” to “Free”, it led to this dynamic: Free users could use either one of two distributions: Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) .

can I use gitlab community edition for commercial projects ? Yes you can . EE version has more features than CE with support.