connector
Make every GitLab seat, minute, and pipeline accountable.
Attribute every GitLab license, CI minute, and runner dollar to the team and project behind it. Then decide what to scale, where to cut, and which workflows are earning their place.
Engineering tools that everyone uses get owned by no one
Seats, CI minutes, runners, and AI credits roll up to one engineering line item. Nobody owns the spike. CloudZero allocates every dimension to the team or project responsible, so cost ownership lands where the build decisions get made.
Catch the runaway pipeline before the bill catches you
A misconfigured pipeline, a fanned-out test matrix, or a Duo workflow burning AI credits doesn’t announce itself. It accrues. CloudZero flags the deviation and routes the alert to the team responsible while there’s still time to act.
Tie GitLab spend to the engineering outcomes it powers
CloudZero connects GitLab spend to cost per deploy, cost per release, cost per product. For teams using Duo and AI-assisted development, AI credit burn and engineering output live in the same view. Invest in what’s earning its keep.
Turn GitLab spend into engineering decisions
Every team accountable for their GitLab spend
GitLab’s billing dashboard shows what the instance costs. CloudZero shows which team drove it. Its allocation engine maps every dimension — seats, CI minutes, runners, storage, AI credits — to the project or team responsible. No manual re-tagging required.
Overspend caught while it’s still reversible
CloudZero monitors GitLab spend against 12 months of baselines. No manual thresholds. When a runaway pipeline, a misconfigured runner, or a Duo workflow consumes more than expected, CloudZero flags it and routes the alert to the team responsible.
The unit economics behind every engineering decision
CloudZero connects GitLab spend to cost per deploy, cost per release, cost per product. For teams shipping AI-powered features, Duo credit burn and customer outcomes live in the same view. Scale on real numbers.
CloudZero truly gives us a heartbeat of our spend at all times.
Adam Walker
VP of Infrastructure and Security
Reduced time spent managing cost by 90%
Cost efficiency has never been a more pressing concern as we scale our AI spending. CloudZero was built on the premise that cost efficiency doesn’t have to be a post-facto, outside-in mandate from our finance team, and that it can start with engineers. This puts even more power in our engineers’ hands, giving them a comprehensive, easily actionable list of optimizations, by which they can improve the efficiency value of their AI and infrastructure.
Sharanya Viswanath
Senior Engineering Manager, Duolingo
How Duolingo achieves proactive engineering accountability
see cloudzero in action