# 🔁 The GitLab Loophole: Fable 5.1 Free, Reset Every Month **URL:** \ **Category:** Tutorials & Methods\ **Tags:** freebies, tips-tricks, ai\ **Created:** [12.Сентябрь.2026 08:30:24 UTC](https://onehack.st/t/the-gitlab-loophole-fable-5-1-free-reset-every-month/325504 "2026-09-12T08:30:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SRZ](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/srz/32/146132_2.png) [@SRZ](https://onehack.st/u/SRZ)\ **Post date:** [12.Сентябрь.2026 08:30:24 UTC](https://onehack.st/t/the-gitlab-loophole-fable-5-1-free-reset-every-month/325504/1 "2026-09-12T08:30:24Z")
### (⌐■\_■) Every new GitLab group starts a fresh 30-day Ultimate trial with 24 credits, and Claude Fable 5.1 sits in its chat — sign up with an email, pass one SMS, no card, open another group when the month ends GitLab’s 30-day Ultimate trial hands every account [24 credits](https://docs.gitlab.com/subscriptions/free_trials/) for [Duo Agentic Chat](https://docs.gitlab.com/user/gitlab_duo_chat/agentic_chat/), and the [model list](https://docs.gitlab.com/user/duo_agent_platform/model_selection/) inside that chat includes Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6. The trial belongs to the _group_ you start it on, not to you. So when the 30 days end, a new group starts a new trial. Same account, same login. ```auto GET Claude Fable 5.1 (and Opus 5 · Sonnet 5 · GPT-5.6) in a chat, 30 days NEED an email + a phone that receives one SMS. No card. No company. REFILL day 31 → new group → Start free trial → 24 fresh credits ``` ### 1️⃣ Get the trial 1. **[gitlab.com/-/trial\_registrations/new](https://gitlab.com/-/trial_registrations/new)** — first name, last name, username, any email, password. The company step after it: your own name as company, 1 employee. 2. **[gitlab.com/-/identity\_verification](https://gitlab.com/-/identity_verification)** — one SMS code to your phone. Once per account, done forever. 3. GitLab creates your first group and project for you. Open the group → **Settings › Billing** → the trial is already running, 24 credits. 4. Your avatar → **[Preferences](https://gitlab.com/-/profile/preferences) › Behavior › Default GitLab Duo namespace** → pick that group → Save. 5. Group → **Settings › GitLab Duo › Model selection** → Agentic Chat → **Claude Fable 5.1** → Save. (Without this it answers with Sonnet 4.6.) 6. Open **GitLab Duo Chat** from the top bar and ask. ### 2️⃣ Get it again 1. Top bar → **[Groups › New group](https://gitlab.com/groups/new)** → any name. 2. New group → **Settings › Billing › Start free trial** → 24 fresh credits, 30 more days. 3. Point the default namespace and the model at the new group, the same two clicks as before. Accounts made after 27 January 2026 hold three groups, so three trials sit ready on one login. Older accounts have no group limit. ### 3️⃣ Stretch the 24 credits ```auto model answers per trial Fable 5.1 14 Opus 5 26 Sonnet 5 76 Haiku 4.5 160 GPT-5.6 Luna 192 ``` Ask plainly, one question per message: one message = one credit charge. Long tool-running tasks charge per step. Fable for the hard questions, Sonnet 5 for the rest, switched from the dropdown mid-conversation without losing context. A run that fails costs nothing. Remaining credits: group → **Settings › GitLab Duo › Usage** (the full [calls-per-credit table](https://docs.gitlab.com/subscriptions/gitlab_credits/) lists every model). ### 4️⃣ Use it anywhere The [gitlab.com](http://gitlab.com) chat page, the [GitLab Workflow extension for VS Code](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitLab.gitlab-workflow), the [GitLab Duo plugin for JetBrains](https://docs.gitlab.com/editor_extensions/jetbrains/), and the [Duo CLI](https://docs.gitlab.com/user/gitlab_duo_cli/) in a terminal, all on any local folder once the default namespace from step 4 is set. Conversations follow you across all of them. ### 5️⃣ No SMS? Two doors - No SMS in your country (Pakistan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, UAE, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and a few more): open a [GitLab support ticket](https://support.gitlab.com/hc/en-us/requests/new), they apply a verification exemption to your account. The [country list](https://docs.gitlab.com/security/identity_verification/) is on the verification page. - No phone at all: run GitLab yourself. [`docker run` the official GitLab EE image](https://docs.gitlab.com/install/docker/) on your PC, request the self-managed trial at **[about.gitlab.com/free-trial](https://about.gitlab.com/free-trial/?hosted=self-managed)** (You host), the activation code arrives by email, paste it under **Admin › Subscription**. Same 24 credits, same 30 days, no SMS step. Three groups on the login, three trials in the drawer. Day 31 is a click, not a goodbye. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_Johns](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/jim_johns/32/117292_2.png) [@Jim\_Johns](https://onehack.st/u/Jim_Johns)\ **Post date:** [12.Сентябрь.2026 11:20:27 UTC](https://onehack.st/t/the-gitlab-loophole-fable-5-1-free-reset-every-month/325504/2 "2026-09-12T11:20:27Z")
They ask for credit card verification! ---
**Author:** ![king\_khan](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/king_khan/32/117263_2.png) [@king\_khan](https://onehack.st/u/king_khan)\ **Post date:** [14.Сентябрь.2026 09:11:19 UTC](https://onehack.st/t/the-gitlab-loophole-fable-5-1-free-reset-every-month/325504/4 "2026-09-14T09:11:19Z")
passing the gitab 10 step captcha is like inventing a wheel, i treid multiple time but failed. ---
**Author:** ![yoursoul](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/yoursoul/32/153282_2.png) [@yoursoul](https://onehack.st/u/yoursoul)\ **Post date:** [14.Сентябрь.2026 10:30:19 UTC](https://onehack.st/t/the-gitlab-loophole-fable-5-1-free-reset-every-month/325504/5 "2026-09-14T10:30:19Z")
use audio captcha it is too much easy ---
**Author:** ![Opexodus\_Exodus](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/opexodus_exodus/32/135573_2.png) [@Opexodus\_Exodus](https://onehack.st/u/Opexodus_Exodus)\ **Post date:** [14.Сентябрь.2026 12:28:10 UTC](https://onehack.st/t/the-gitlab-loophole-fable-5-1-free-reset-every-month/325504/6 "2026-09-14T12:28:10Z")
Wow 😳 I was up for a challenge until… Thanks for the retrieval of minutes of my life I’d not have gotten back 🤣 Hit a captcha the other day. Was stuck for 29 minutes 🫨😳