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GitLab's New Rate Limits: What to Fix Before Oct 19

GitLab is capping unauthenticated API calls at 60 an hour starting October 19, and the preview windows land before most teams will have noticed.

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Kiril UrbonasAI Engineer
|Oct 4, 2026
GitLab's New Rate Limits: What to Fix Before Oct 19

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