Prototype — estimates, not a quote

Plan your GitLab seats and Duo credits before renewal

Enter your subscription details, or drop in exports from GitLab, to see seat true-up exposure, a renewal projection, and a credits burn-down — all worked out in this browser tab.

Nothing you load here is uploaded anywhere. Every file is read with FileReader inside this browser tab and never leaves your machine — there is no server behind this page, no analytics call, and no network request this page is allowed to make (see the strict Content-Security-Policy in the page source: connect-src 'none').

1. Subscription basics

Tier

Purchased seats

Price per seat / year (USD) Premium list price default: $348/yr ($29/user/month, billed annually) — source about.gitlab.com/pricing, checked 2026-09-26. Editable — enter your actual contracted price.

Term start

Term end

Expected seat growth for next term (%)

Billing mode

Annual true-up Quarterly Subscription Reconciliation (QSR)

This only changes which estimate is highlighted below — both are always shown.

2. License data (optional — self-managed / Dedicated)

Paste or drop the JSON from GET /api/v4/license (GitLab Self-Managed and Dedicated only; needs administrator access — GitLab.com has no License API). Fills seat counts and term dates automatically.

Drop license.json here, click to browse, or paste below.

Max 20 MB. Parsed in this tab only.

Or paste JSON

3. Billable users (optional)

Drop the JSON array from GET /api/v4/users?using_license_seat=true. Counts stay aggregated by default — names are never shown unless you opt in below, and that view stays local.

Drop billable-users.json here or click to browse.

Max 20 MB. Array of user objects.

4. Credits usage (optional)

A billing account manager can export credit usage from the Customers Portal (GitLab Credits dashboard → Export usage data): a ZIP holding a daily-summary CSV and a per-event CSV, up to 31 days per export. Use the per-event file — it carries the user ID and credits used for each billable event, which lets included credits be applied per user. GitLab does not publish that file's column headers, so map the columns yourself after upload (docs.gitlab.com/subscriptions/gitlab_credits_dashboard, checked 2026-09-26). If you skip this, use "estimate from activity" in the settings below instead.

Drop a credits-usage .csv here or click to browse.

Max 20 MB.

5. Credit settings checked against GitLab's published docs 2026-09-26

Included credits / user / month Source: about.gitlab.com/pricing/terms — checked 2026-09-26 (Premium: 12/user/month). A promotional offer since 2026-01-15, end date to be announced by GitLab — not a contractual entitlement. Editable.

On-demand price / credit (USD) Source: docs.gitlab.com/subscriptions/gitlab_credits — list price, checked 2026-09-26. Billed monthly. Editable.

Inactive threshold (days) for reclaim

Draw-down order: each user's included credits → Monthly Commitment Pool → on-demand. Included credits belong to each user individually — they are not pooled or shared between users — reset on the first of each month and do not roll over. Service accounts and bots receive no included credits. This prototype does not model a Monthly Commitment Pool balance: everything above a user's included credits is costed as on-demand. Source: docs.gitlab.com/subscriptions/gitlab_credits, checked 2026-09-26.

Estimate burn from activity activity figures are your assumptions Use estimated burn instead of (or when there is no) credits-usage CSV

Estimate mode covers Code Suggestions only. Agentic features (Duo Agent Platform, Agentic Chat) are billed per model call at a rate that depends on the model, so they cannot be estimated from activity counts — use a usage export for those.

Results

Seat true-up exposure

Overage seats

Formula

Annual true-up cost (not prorated)

Formula

QSR estimate (prorated remaining term)

Formula

Annual true-up bills the full annual fee for every user added during the year; QSR bills the quarter's maximum seats over subscription, prorated for the quarters remaining in the term (GitLab's own example: a $100/yr seat added in Q1 costs $25 × 3 quarters). QSR applies only to 12-month terms bought by credit card or invoice — reseller, purchase-order, multi-year and public-sector subscriptions are reconciled annually. Source: docs.gitlab.com/subscriptions/quarterly_reconciliation, checked 2026-09-26. Your contract governs — confirm with your account team.

Renewal projection

Current billable seats

Next-term seats (with growth)

Formula

Projected renewal cost

Formula

Credits burn

Monthly included credits (all seats)

0 credits

Formula

Monthly burn no data

0 credits

Formula

Monthly on-demand cost

Formula

Average user exhausts included credits

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Formula

Projected on-demand cost for remaining term

Formula

Reclaim opportunity

Inactive billable seats (> threshold)

Potential annual savings if reclaimed

Formula

Reclaiming a seat doesn't reduce a bill already paid — it reduces exposure at the next true-up or renewal, or frees a seat for a new hire instead of buying one.

Plain-language summary

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