GitLab Pages (gitlab.io)

gitlab.com/groups/pagesGitstorage/gitlab-pagesJSON compare report an error provider JSON

Free allowance: 1 GB maximum site size on gitlab.com (tied to the 1 GB max artifact size); 200,000 file entries per site; unlimited projects.
Verdict: fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
Cost: free tier
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: noneno named constraint binds
Evidence: reported4 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	1 GB maximum site size on gitlab.com (tied to the 1 GB max artifact size); 200,000 file entries per site; unlimited projects. unit objects; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	No egress charge published; rate limits are 1,000 requests/50s per IP and 5,000 requests/10s per Pages domain — generous enough for real serving but a hard ceiling if sharded heavily onto one domain.
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	git, rclone git
Tooling	git push + a `pages` job in .gitlab-ci.yml (a 'pages' artifact); the git-pages v2 API also accepts a direct HTTP upload. No rclone backend.
Composes with	1 GB x unlimited projects x unlimited namespaces. 20 TiB = 20,480 projects. Per-project cap is 2x GitHub Pages but still fails a 500 GB unit test on its own.
Reliability	Self-managed default is a 100 MB Pages cap, but gitlab.com is 1 GB — do not confuse the two. CI minutes are free but shared runners now require a card on file for gitlab.com.

Evidence 4

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	docs.gitlab.com/user/gitlab_com/	'Maximum site size \| 1 GB', 'The maximum size of your Pages site depends on the maximum artifact size'
2026-10-21	docs.gitlab.com/administration/instance_limits/	'total number of file entries (including directories and symlinks) is limited to 200,000 per GitLab Pages website'
2026-10-21	docs.gitlab.com/user/gitlab_com/rate_limits/	'GitLab Pages requests for an IP address \| 1,000 requests every 50 seconds'
2026-10-21	gitlab-org.gitlab.io/gitlab-pages/	probe: curl -D - -> HTTP 302 chain, Server: cloudflare (live serving path)

More fields 1

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "1 GB maximum site size on gitlab.com (tied to the 1 GB max artifact size); 200,000 file entries per site; unlimited projects.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown values 5

$.binding_note boilerplate
$.per_object_cap.notes the field may be stated in a source that was not read
$.per_object_cap.stated the field may be stated in a source that was not read
$.retention.notes the field may be stated in a source that was not read
$.retention.stated the field may be stated in a source that was not read