Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
GitLab.com is changing its API rate limits so they depend on subscription tier. Free accounts and unauthenticated requests are limited starting October 19, 2026, with preview windows on October 7 and October 14, and Premium and Ultimate limits change in January 2027. Unauthenticated requests are capped at 60 per hour per IP address, and exceeding a limit returns HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header.
What changes for platform teams
Platform teams whose pipelines, bots, or agents call the GitLab.com API without credentials will hit the 60 requests per hour anonymous cap and should move calls to personal access, OAuth, or job tokens. Teams should check RateLimit-Remaining headers against their plan's published limits before the October 19 change, and self-managed and Dedicated instances are not affected.
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