Asana vs GitLab | TrustRadius

What users are saying about

Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 2030 reviews and ratings

Score 8.9 out of 10

Based on 254 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

Project Management

7.8

Asana

78%

GitLab

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Asana ranks higher in 14/14 features

Task Management

8.8

88%

158 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Resource Management

7.4

74%

132 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Gantt Charts

7.9

79%

44 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Scheduling

7.9

79%

144 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Workflow Automation

7.8

78%

114 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Team Collaboration

8.5

85%

157 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Support for Agile Methodology

8.5

85%

7 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Support for Waterfall Methodology

8.5

85%

7 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Document Management

7.0

70%

133 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Email integration

7.1

71%

127 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Mobile Access

8.3

83%

130 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Timesheet Tracking

6.1

61%

6 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Change request and Case Management

8.4

84%

4 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Budget and Expense Management

6.7

67%

61 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Professional Services Automation

6.8

Asana

68%

GitLab

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

Asana ranks higher in 2/2 features

Project & financial reporting

5.5

55%

1 Rating

N/A

0 Ratings

Integration with accounting software

8.2

82%

35 Ratings

N/A

0 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

Asana is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Renew
GitLab is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
Asana and GitLab are tied in 1 area: Usability

Asana

80%

189 Ratings

9.0

GitLab

90%

88 Ratings

Asana

96%

35 Ratings

9.3

GitLab

93%

3 Ratings

Asana

90%

22 Ratings

9.0

GitLab

90%

4 Ratings

Asana

84%

4 Ratings

GitLab

N/A

0 Ratings

Asana

59%

81 Ratings

9.0

GitLab

90%

20 Ratings

Asana

82%

1 Rating

GitLab

N/A

0 Ratings

Pros

Easy to use by any user (good UX and no installation needed)
Easy to create a simple project, add tasks and sub tasks.
Different display options, according to the project/tasks type
Works great using a web browser, you don't have to install the application

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Verified User

Engineer in Other

Environmental Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Safeguards implemented are customizable and allow our organization to set our level of verification before merging.
One of the smoothest and most well-organized version control software products on the market.
Super widespread use so our use of GitLab is understandable and usable by the customer with little "translation" as to what we are doing and what they are doing.

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Brock Haft

Software Engineer

Kythera Space SolutionsAviation & Aerospace, 201-500 employees

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Cons

Some users might find the user interface a bit dull and un inspired
We found the way to use multiple workspaces a bit confusing
It takes quite a bit of planning to build a well organized workspace in order not to have way too many projects and tasks all over the place

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Louis Schietekat

Managing Director

IP BraaiLegal Services, 1-10 employees

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GitLab could improve some of the confusion around how permissions work (sometimes unclear why one user can do an action, but not another)
GitLab should provide a way to rerun a merge pipeline, without rerunning the original Merge Request pipeline
When jobs fail, it would be awesome if every user could see the information on the runner and the versions of the software it is running on (to better debug the issue)

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Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering

Internet Company, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

$10

Starting Price

$50 per month

Asana Editions & Modules

Edition

Premium	$13.49¹
Business	$30.49¹

per month

Additional Pricing Details

—

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

$0 per user per month

GitLab Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

Free	$0¹
Premium	$19¹
Ultimate	$99¹

per user per month

SaaS Edition

Free	$0¹
SaaS Premium	$19¹
SaaS Ultimate	$99¹

per user per month

Additional Pricing Details

We provide free Gold and Ultimate licenses to qualifying open source projects and educational institutions, find out more by visiting our pricing page.

Likelihood to Renew

Asana 9.6

Based on 35 answers

Mobile + Desktop capabilities - Able to use it anywhere, anytime.
Task management - Easy to view projects and their progress.
Time management - Easy to see what elements require time / how they interrelate and manage the project on an overall basis.
Company management - Be able to see from a master dashboard perspective where each project is in its stages of completion.
Clear communication - It's visually documented who is doing what at what time so that the whole project gets done.

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CEO (Chief Executive Officer)

Simply Heaven DesignMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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GitLab 9.3

Based on 3 answers

Gitlab is the best in its segment. They have a free version, they have open-source software, they provide a good service with their SaaS product, they are a fully-remote company since the beginning (which means they are fully distributed and have forward-thinking IMO). I would certainly recommend them to everyone.

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Willian Molinari

Backend Engineer

DoistInternet, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

Asana 9.0

Based on 22 answers

It is very user-friendly. Takes a new employee an hour to start figuring out how the system works. That's an important factor. You don't want to encounter the issue where employees need a week to understand how the system works. For example, JIRA, I tried using it for a week and I still don't understand the complicated layout. Asana has a simple interface. Once you see it, you get it type of program.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Internet Company, 1-10 employees

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GitLab 9.0

Based on 4 answers

The web console management is superior and I would have given Gitlab a 10, but sometimes it is hard to find documentation about a configuration setting in the gitlab.rb configuration file. As we move everything to code that means moving our CVS tools to code as well - and Gitlab to code. The usability of Gitlab from the end user's perspective is superior and the usability from the operations team is very good and getting better but there could be a little improvement in the gitlab.rb config file layout and documentation.

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Kevin Ritchey

Managing Member

ZenPan Technology Solutions, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

Asana 8.4

Based on 4 answers

Working with Asana on a daily basis

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Ronen Soreq

Project Manager

ClickSoftwareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Support Rating

Asana 5.9

Based on 81 answers

I haven't had to use their support so I can't rate it. The fact that I haven't needed them reflects the ease of use of the product. I would recommend that any new users schedule a complete demo of the product to ensure that they are using it to it's fullest (there's a lot of useful features).

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Adam Lumley

Director of Marketing & Communications

787 NetworksMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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GitLab 9.0

Based on 20 answers

At this point, I do not have much experience with Gitlab support as I have never had to engage them. They have documentation that is helpful, not quite as extensive as other documentation, but helpful nonetheless. They also seem to be relatively responsive on social media platforms (twitter) and really thrived when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Information Services Company, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I like how extensive the capabilities are for Asana. With other softwares it seems there are many things lacking. I feel like Asana is also a very user friendly platform and aesthetically pleasing which is important in a modern office. We have many young people entering our workspace and it is important to have software that is ahead of the times in functionality and efficiency.

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Chantelle Chase

Brand Development & Culture Specialist

SIRIUScreatorGraphic Design, 1-10 employees

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The first thing is other products except GitLab is there is very costly and does not have any customise thing. Gitlab is an open-source license product that makes its use easier and more cost-effective that's why we have chosen Gitlab among other products with the same features. The other products like GitLab and Bitbucket have limited numbers of repositories provided as private in the free plan for more Repos we need to purchase their plan which is expensive.

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Mahesh Kumar

Software Engineer

Scripbox Advisor Pvt. Ltd.Investment Management, 201-500 employees

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Scalability

Asana 8.2

Based on 1 answer

I used this tool on a daily basis at work and it runs as a solid rock

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Ronen Soreq

Project Manager

ClickSoftwareComputer Software, 501-1000 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Return on Investment

Productivity - Most of all, it allows me to be more productive and have a good sense of where I am with projects and deadlines.
Easy to use - I can make the most of my time to get up (and stay) up and running.
Project coordination - Allows me to assign tasks to my interns and communicate directly within the platform to keep the work train moving.

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Kristi Porter

Chief Do-Gooder

SignifyMarketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees

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We are moving towards Gitlab only as our SCM & CI tool. So it would be an alternative to Jenkins. Saving our licensing cost there.
We have also stopped using Confluence & using Gitlab for our documentation purposes. Reducing cost there as well.

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Swati Rastogi

Senior Software Engineer

Pitney BowesInformation Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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Asana

GitLab

Asana

GitLab

Task Management

Resource Management

Gantt Charts

Scheduling

Workflow Automation

Team Collaboration

Support for Agile Methodology

Support for Waterfall Methodology

Document Management

Email integration

Mobile Access

Timesheet Tracking

Change request and Case Management

Budget and Expense Management

Asana

GitLab

Project & financial reporting

Integration with accounting software

Asana

GitLab

Asana

GitLab

Asana

GitLab

Asana

GitLab

Asana

GitLab

Asana

GitLab

Likelihood to Recommend

Asana

GitLab

Pros

Asana

GitLab

Cons

Asana

GitLab

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Asana Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

GitLab Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

SaaS Edition

Additional Pricing Details

Likelihood to Renew

Asana

GitLab

Usability

Asana

GitLab

Reliability and Availability

Asana

GitLab

Support Rating

Asana

GitLab

Alternatives Considered

Asana

GitLab

Scalability

Asana