GitLab 19.4 Hosts Kimi K3, MiniMax M3 and GLM 5.3 Itself and Sells Them as 4x More Calls Per Credit

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Beyond the credit-allowance pricing already reported, GitLab 19.4's concrete cost lever is that GitLab now hosts three open-weight models inside Duo Agent Platform and claims up to 4x more calls per GitLab Credit versus comparable frontier models at what it says is comparable performance. Administrators control model availability and set per-feature defaults that cascade to child groups and projects, and credit usage visibility went generally available with per-user caps and exports down to the billable event. An incumbent devtool absorbing model hosting to cut its own customers' credit burn is a different move from repricing the seat, and it makes the frontier labs a swappable input rather than the platform.