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Backlog vs GitLab

Backlog
4 Ratings
GitLab
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121 Ratings

Backlog

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Score 7.5 out of 100

Based on 4 reviews and ratings

GitLab

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Score 8.7 out of 100

Based on 121 reviews and ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

Backlog

Project planning, project management, and tracking. Live git integration and project monitor make it possible to develop software using Agile methodology. Also if you are on a very small budget, then one should not go for this tool. But great support.

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Sanyam Jain | TrustRadius Reviewer
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GitLab

Gitlab is a great opportunity to "practice what you preach" if you are a shop that advocates the use of open source tools. Whether you use [Gitlab] or your own internal deployment, this tool offers good value for money (typically free in both cases for most organizations' needs). It would be less appropriate when an organization:
  1. Doesn't want to host their own revision control, for less hands-on DevOps
  2. Needs their code to be private/proprietary, and
  3. Already has existing products and workflows for Continuous Integration and project management
In this case, a company license for GitHub.com may make more sense.

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Feature Rating Comparison

Project Management

Backlog
7.3
GitLab
—
Task Management
Backlog
9.0
GitLab
—
Gantt Charts
Backlog
9.0
GitLab
—
Scheduling
Backlog
8.0
GitLab
—
Team Collaboration
Backlog
6.0
GitLab
—
Support for Waterfall Methodology
Backlog
4.0
GitLab
—
Document Management
Backlog
8.0
GitLab
—
Email integration
Backlog
6.0
GitLab
—
Mobile Access
Backlog
8.0
GitLab
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Pros

Backlog

  • Gantt chart
  • Github support

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GitLab

  • Pipelines: Gitlab Pipelines is an excellent way to get started with pipelines easily and without much overhead. And with it being all encapsulated within Gitlab itself, it makes integrating your code into that pipeline even easier. Just a little bit of code and VOILA. You have at least a minimum viable pipeline.
  • VCS: Gitlab is, of course, a great version control system.
  • Usability: Gitlab has really put a significant amount of focus into usability. They've drilled down and ensured that the way companies and individuals need to use the tool, they can.
  • Groups: Gitlab makes setting permissions on projects extremely easy. Other version control systems make it more difficult to set things granular enough, but gitlab allows you to group things in a granular enough way for your projects.

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Cons

Backlog

  • Price is very high for small teams and department of short term contracts.
  • GUI can be more intuitive.

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Sanyam Jain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sanyam Jain
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GitLab

  • Third-party integrations. Many developer tools integrate deeply with GitHub, but lack support for Gitlab. Gitlab does have webhook support so it's possible to build your own integrations, but this can be time-consuming.
  • Gitlab's main competitor (GitHub) has a massive social network of coders and hosts nearly all popular open source projects. If you are looking for this type of community, Gitlab may not be for you.
  • Customer support & reliability. In the time I've used Gitlab, it's not uncommon to experience hours-long periods of downtime without any announcement or indication from the support team when it will be available again.

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Likelihood to Renew

Backlog

No score
No answers yet
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GitLab

GitLab 10.0
Based on 2 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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Usability

Backlog

No score
No answers yet
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GitLab

GitLab 8.7
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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Support Rating

Backlog

Backlog 8.0
Based on 1 answer
I would give 9 but one less because of the high price.

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Sanyam Jain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sanyam Jain
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GitLab

GitLab 8.5
Based on 20 answers
I will admit, being an enterprise Gitlab user may come with additional access to Gitlab support. With that said, I have found them to be very supportive and responsive when prompted with questions about the tool. The engineers I've worked with have been very keen to listen to feedback from my team and have taken it back as suggestions for improvements to the tool.

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Alternatives Considered

Backlog

All of them have their own uniqueness.

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Sanyam Jain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sanyam Jain
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GitLab

Easy to use - The interface is almost similar to one of the competitors acquired by microsoft.Security - Security is well maintained as Basic Auth plus SSH options both are present and can be utilised organisation wise to improve the authorisation part.Cost effective - Its better compared to the other competitors out there in terms of cost for various team sizes.

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Return on Investment

Backlog

  • Software interns get easily used to this tool.
  • One who works in the SDLC gets recognized and it's easy to track rank board.

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Sanyam Jain | TrustRadius Reviewer
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GitLab

  • Developer salaries are very expensive, and this tool saves developer time, so I'd estimate at least $1000/month ROI per developer using this tool.
  • The CI interface can do wonders to improve release time and software quality. If you leverage this, there's a strong ROI here.
  • Part of our business relied on secure private source code hosting; GitLab is totally the right choice for that.

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Pricing Details

Backlog

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Backlog Editions & Modules

—
Additional Pricing Details
—

GitLab

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

GitLab Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition
Free$01
Premium$191
Ultimate$991
  1. per user per month
SaaS Edition
Free$01
SaaS Premium$191
SaaS Ultimate$991
  1. 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 https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/

Rating Summary

Likelihood to Recommend

Backlog
8.0
GitLab
8.9

Likelihood to Renew

Backlog
—
GitLab
10.0

Usability

Backlog
—
GitLab
8.7

Support Rating

Backlog
8.0
GitLab
8.5

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