CloudEstimate

Size GitLab Self-Managed on AWS

Extra Small — up to 500 users

Monthly cost

$463.38

Annual cost

$5,561/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $420.48
Storage $42.90
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

Role Instance vCPU GB RAM Storage
Application 1 × m6i.xlarge 4 16 200 GB
Database 1 × m6i.xlarge 4 16 250 GB
Cache 1 × m6i.large 2 8 —
Object Storage Gateway 1 × m6i.large 2 8 300 GB

Why this sizing

This Extra Small GitLab Self-Managed deployment supports up to 500 users on AWS, utilizing a total of 12 vCPUs and 48 GB RAM across four instances. Compute instances represent the dominant cost driver, accounting for over 90% of the monthly expenditure at $420.48. This configuration prioritizes cost efficiency for smaller user bases by disabling high availability, which introduces a single point of failure.

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Sources

Reference architecture: GitLab Self-Managed for 1k-users, version 17.11, retrieved April 12, 2026.

https://archives.docs.gitlab.com/17.11/administration/reference_architectures/

Pricing: AWS pricing snapshot, retrieved May 9, 2026.

Commercial pricing only. GovCloud, sovereign cloud, and discounts beyond those shown are not modelled.

Not included in this estimate

  • Vendor licensing and support
  • Professional services
  • Network egress
  • Compliance controls
  • Backup storage
  • Monitoring

Based on GitLab's published reference architectures and simplified to a VM-based baseline.

Production deployments should be verified against workload-specific RPS, monorepos, and CI patterns.

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