# Gitlab Premium account and k6 Pricing plan **URL:** \ **Category:** Cloud Support\ **Created:** [March 3, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/gitlab-premium-account-and-k6-pricing-plan/99034 "2023-03-03T07:37:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shripad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Shripad](https://community.grafana.com/u/Shripad)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 7:37am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/gitlab-premium-account-and-k6-pricing-plan/99034/1 "2023-03-03T07:37:42Z")
As K6 is connected with GitLab, I have a Premium account there. The K6 plan must still be purchased?, and it would be helpful to know how many VU users and machines are supported. ---
**Author:** ![eyeveebee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/eyeveebee/32/27253_2.png) [@eyeveebee](https://community.grafana.com/u/eyeveebee)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/gitlab-premium-account-and-k6-pricing-plan/99034/3 "2023-03-03T15:32:40Z")
Hi @Shripad Welcome to the community forum 👋 Good to hear you plan to user k6 connected to GitLab 🎉 We have [several ways to run](https://k6.io/blog/integrating-load-testing-with-gitlab/#running-k6-cloud-tests-3): - `k6 run` runs a test locally on the CI server, so you would not need a k6 cloud plan. Explained under the section [Configure GitLab CI](https://k6.io/blog/integrating-load-testing-with-gitlab)😕#configure-gitlab-ci-1. - `k6 cloud` runs a test on the [k6 Cloud](https://k6.io/cloud) and will probably require a paid plan if the trial is not enough. Configuration described under the section [Running k6 Cloud tests](https://k6.io/blog/integrating-load-testing-with-gitlab/#running-k6-cloud-tests-3). For cloud you can check the [k6 cloud documentation](https://k6.io/docs/cloud/) and there is a [FAQ section](https://k6.io/docs/cloud/your-plan/pricing-questions/) that can help you with subscription questions. Let us know if you still have doubts and I would connect you to someone who can better help. When running locally (first option above), you could also [send the results to the cloud](https://k6.io/docs/results-output/real-time/cloud/). And in that case you would be using some of the VUh (VU per hour) credits. The difference is explained in the section [streaming results vs running on cloud servers](https://k6.io/docs/results-output/real-time/cloud/#streaming-results-vs--running-on-cloud-servers). I hope this helps 🙇‍♀️ Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![Shripad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Shripad](https://community.grafana.com/u/Shripad)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 9:57am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/gitlab-premium-account-and-k6-pricing-plan/99034/5 "2023-03-06T09:57:18Z")
Thank you for the feedback. I was curious if I needed to subscribe to the cloud plan for K6 if I wanted to perform a load test utilizing more than 1K VUs, or if GitLab Premium account holders would be able to use it for free. ---
**Author:** ![eyeveebee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/eyeveebee/32/27253_2.png) [@eyeveebee](https://community.grafana.com/u/eyeveebee)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/gitlab-premium-account-and-k6-pricing-plan/99034/7 "2023-03-06T12:31:24Z")
Hi @Shripad You would need to subscribe to a k6 plan if you wanted to use more than what the trial allows (you can always start with the trial). GitLab Premium will not allow you to use k6 for free apart from the trial. You can check the options in [Grafana Pricing | Free, Pro, Advanced, Enterprise](https://k6.io/pricing/), and you can always [contact the team](https://k6.io/contact/#contact-form) for a personalized plan or e-mail [sales@k6.io](mailto:sales@k6.io). I hope this helps. Cheers!