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GitLab Duo pricing changed shape in 2026 and most of the internet has not caught up. The old model — GitLab Duo Pro at
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The practical planning problem with a usage-based AI model is that consumption is hard to forecast — an agentic code review on a large merge request costs a different number of credits from an IDE autocomplete, and you generally learn your real burn rate only after a month or two of use. The defensible approach for an Indian team is to run on the included Premium or Ultimate allowance first, measure actual credit consumption for a full sprint cycle, and only then decide between topping up ad hoc and structuring a Flex commitment with volume discounts. Two things to keep out of the budget model: the included credits are promotional and GitLab has not committed to them permanently, and unused credits are not a cash equivalent. GitLab bills in USD and publishes no rupee rate card. Every INR figure here is a worked conversion at ₹95.2 to the dollar (the rate on 26 August 2026), shown pre-GST and indicative — it is not a GitLab list price, and it moves with the exchange rate. Buying GitLab directly from an Indian entity means a foreign remittance: 18% GST under reverse charge as an import of service, TDS on the payment, Form 15CA/CB paperwork, and no clean input tax credit trail. Bought through National IT Service you get a domestic INR invoice with GST charged on the face of it, which your CA can claim ITC against in the normal way. If your organisation has an AI governance policy — increasingly common in Indian BFSI and among firms serving EU clients — settle where GitLab processes prompts and whether model selection is restricted before rolling Duo out, not after.
WhatsApp +91 98119 98370 with your team size and current GitLab tier. We will map which AI features your team actually wants against what your tier already includes, size a credit commitment only if you genuinely need one, and quote it in INR with a GST invoice. If you are still on the retired Duo Pro model, we will also work out what transitioning to credits does to your renewal cost.
No. The per-seat Duo Pro add-on at 9 per user per month, and the sales-quoted Duo Enterprise tier, have both been retired. AI in GitLab now runs on GitLab Credits at per credit, pooled across the team, with 12 credits per user per month included in Premium and 24 in Ultimate. The 9 figure still appears widely on comparison sites that have not refreshed their GitLab entries — do not budget against it.
Honestly, nobody can tell you before you run it. Consumption depends entirely on feature mix: an agentic code review across a large merge request consumes very differently from IDE autocomplete, and teams that adopt automated pipeline fixes burn far more than teams using chat occasionally. The realistic approach is to run a full sprint on your included allowance, read the actual consumption, and size a commitment from measured data. Anyone quoting you a confident per-developer credit figure without seeing your workflow is guessing.
No. AI Chat in the IDE and AI Code Suggestions in the IDE are the Duo Classic features and are included in-tier rather than credit-metered. Credits are for the Duo Agent Platform side — agentic chat, specialised agents, automated flows, AI code review, the AI Catalog, model selection and MCP integrations — plus Secrets Manager. If your team only wants autocomplete and chat, your credit spend can legitimately be zero.
Yes, through credit purchase. GitLab's Free tier notes that AI features can be accessed by purchasing the GitLab Credits add-on, and the Duo Agent Platform is listed as available with any plan. What Free does not give you is any included credit allowance — Premium and Ultimate bundle 12 and 24 credits per user per month respectively, Free bundles none. So AI on Free is possible but entirely pay-as-you-go.
Flex lets you make one annual commitment covering both seats and GitLab Credits, then reallocate spend between them as the year goes on, tracking against a single balance. It is available with any paid plan. It is worth it precisely when your AI consumption is unpredictable — which, given the model is new, is most teams right now. It is not worth it if your usage is small and stable enough that ad hoc top-ups cost less than the commitment.
Not from GitLab directly — credits bill in USD like the rest of the platform, so a direct purchase from an Indian entity carries reverse-charge GST as an import of service plus TDS and remittance paperwork. Bought through National IT Service, credits and seats come on one domestic INR invoice with GST on the face of it and a clean input tax credit trail, which is materially simpler when AI spend is variable month to month.
Get GitLab Duo credits and licences on one INR invoice with GST — we size the commitment against what your team will actually use.