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.
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