GitLab "No More Compute Minutes" or CI Minutes Quota Exceeded
Quick answer
GitLab.com shared runners are capped (Free 400, Premium 10,000, Ultimate 50,000 minutes a month). When used up, jobs stop until the 1st of the month, you buy minutes, or you use your own runners.
Most likely fix: Check usage
How to fix it
Try these in order — the most common fix is first.
1. Check usage
- Open your group > Settings > Usage Quotas and view CI/CD minutes.
- Usage resets to 0 on the first day of each month.
Did this fix it?2. Buy additional minutes
- Extra compute minutes cost $10 per 1,000 as a one-time payment.
- Purchased minutes are used only after the monthly quota and roll over.
Did this fix it?3. Use your own runners
- Register a group or project runner (Settings > CI/CD > Runners > New project runner).
- Your own runners are not counted against the quota.
Did this fix it?4. Cut usage
- Use rules: to run jobs only when needed.
- Mark jobs interruptible: true so new pipelines cancel old ones.
- Reduce scheduled pipeline frequency and disable pipelines for mirror updates.
- Use a smaller runner size.
Did this fix it?
Symptoms
Jobs fail or stay pending with a message that you have used all compute minutes; a banner shows quota exceeded.
Why it happens
- Free plan only gives 400 minutes a month
- Larger runner sizes use cost factors above 1 (2xlarge is 12x)
- Scheduled or mirror pipelines burning minutes
- Many fork merge requests
This guide also covers
- gitlab ci minutes exceeded
- gitlab compute minutes quota
- gitlab no more ci minutes
- gitlab free ci minutes limit
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