GitLab Orbit is GA: Higher agent accuracy, lower token cost
GitLab announced general availability of Orbit, a context graph that indexes code, merge requests, pipelines, deployments, vulnerabilities and ownership for GitLab customers. GitLab says agents connected to Orbit needed up to 45x fewer retries and used up to 4.5x fewer tokens on the same tasks, based on its own testing. Orbit is available to Premium and Ultimate customers on GitLab.com first, with Self-Managed and Dedicated following, and is priced as a shared pool of queries.
What changes for platform teams
Platform teams using GitLab could query dependency, pipeline and ownership data through MCP or REST instead of building their own graph, but the efficiency figures are vendor-reported and unverified. Teams should budget for the per-organization query pool, which costs $30 per user per month for 1,000 queries plus about $0.03 per query beyond the pool.
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