CloudEstimate

Size GitLab Self-Managed on Azure

Extra Small — up to 500 users

Monthly cost

$515.82

Annual cost

$6,190/year

Line-item breakdown

Compute $455.52
Storage $60.30
Other $0.00

Components provisioned

Role Instance vCPU GB RAM Storage
Application 1 × Standard_D4s_v5 4 16 200 GB
Database 1 × Standard_D4s_v5 4 16 250 GB
Cache 1 × Standard_D2s_v5 2 8 —
Object Storage Gateway 1 × Standard_D2s_v5 2 8 300 GB

Why this sizing

GitLab Self-Managed at the extra small tier maps to the 1k-users reference architecture on Azure in eastus. Compute is the largest line item in this estimate, accounting for 88% of monthly cost. High availability is not included here, so this baseline stays lean and leaves failover headroom out of the monthly total. Object Storage Gateway carries the heaviest storage footprint at 300 GB.

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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: Azure pricing snapshot, retrieved April 12, 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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