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    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AGitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, where software teams enable AI at every stage of the software lifecycle to ship faster. The platform enables teams to automate repetitive tasks across planning, building, securing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software.

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    Mattermost

    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Mattermost from the company of the same name in Palo Alto is a messaging, collaboration and communication platform providing high security and compliance for the businesses that need it.

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    GitLabMattermost
    Editions & Modules
    GitLab Free (self-managed)
    $0
    GitLab Free
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    GitLab Premium
    $29
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    $29
    per month per user
    GitLab Ultimate
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    Free Self-Hosted
    $0
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    Professional
    $10
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GitLabMattermost
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional DetailsGitLab Credits enable flexible, consumption-based access to agentic AI capabilities in the GitLab platform, allowing you to scale AI adoption at your own pace while maintaining cost predictability. Powered by Duo Agent Platform, GitLab’s agentic AI capabilities help software teams to collaborate at AI speed, without compromising quality and enterprise security. If usage exceeds monthly allocations and overage terms are accepted, automated on-demand billing activates without service interruption, so your developers never lose access to AI capabilities they need. Real-time dashboards provide transparency into AI consumption patterns. Software teams can see usage across users, projects, and groups with granular attribution for cost allocation. Automated threshold alerts facilitate proactive planning. Advanced analytics deliver trending, forecasting, and FinOps integration.—
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    GitLabMattermost
    Considered Both Products
    GitLab
    Chose GitLab
    As a front-end to revision control workflows, all three products are similar. Bitbucket suffers from the usual problems with Atlassian: it's slow and bloated. GitHub is a viable alternative for these workflows; the choice is entirely dependent on organizational constraints. For …
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    Mattermost
    Chose Mattermost
    First of all, we don't lose messages; we can see or search messages from any point in the past. Second, it offers to manage the whole product ourselves from hosting to serving users of our organisation. We feel that we have full control over data, managing users, …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    21 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    120 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    34 Answers
    Features
    GitLabMattermost
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of GitLab and Mattermost
    Feature
    GitLab
    -
    Ratings
    Mattermost
    8.4
    49 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.637 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.59 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings7.69 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.929 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings8.745 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings8.824 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.511 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of GitLab and Mattermost
    Feature
    GitLab
    -
    Ratings
    Mattermost
    8.4
    52 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Chat00 Ratings8.752 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings8.352 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings8.749 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings9.032 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings9.335 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings7.78 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings7.58 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of GitLab and Mattermost
    Feature
    GitLab
    -
    Ratings
    Mattermost
    8.9
    28 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Versioning00 Ratings7.911 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings9.322 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings9.322 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings7.918 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings9.922 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings9.019 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings8.212 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings10.016 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    GitLabMattermost
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (168 ratings)
    8.6
    (54 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (20 ratings)
    7.1
    (8 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    8.6
    (39 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    GitLabMattermost
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GitLab
    In general it's a good product with a huge number of features. It can do CI/CD checks, deployment, repo hosting, integrations etc. A lot of it can be managed from just the UI but also has an ok API. It does tend to release new features semi-often too which is nice. It can have a steep learning curve for certain features so not a starter-friendly vendor, but great for most businesses.
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    Mattermost
    I used Mattermost on a full remote company and it perfectly suited our collaboration and communication culture. The company dealt with privileged and personal information of a huge data base of users, so it was a significant advantage for our need to comply with industry regulations.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    GitLab
    • GitLab excels in managing code versions, allowing easy tracking of changes, branch management, and merging contributions.
    • It helps maintain code stability and reliability, saving time and effort in the development or research workflow.
    • Powerful code review features, enabling collaboration and feedback among team members.
    • Robust project management features, including issue tracking, kanban boards, and milestones.
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    Mattermost
    • Easy intergration to our main CRM (Monday.com)
    • I'm not techy myself but I have seen a lot of our previous integrations in Slack transferred over to Mattermost so that's fun
    • The desktop and phone app (android) works well enough. I haven't tried it on the Apple ecosystem yet.
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    Cons
    GitLab
    • CI variables management is sometimes hard to use, for example, with File type variables. The scope of each variable is also hard to guess.
    • Access Token: there are too many types (Personal, Project, global..), and it is hard to identify the scope and where it comes from once created.
    • Runners: auto-scaled runners are for the moment hard to put in place, and monitoring is not easy.
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    Mattermost
    • Some of the features in paid plans could be free, however, they have much offered in free plan (self-hosted)
    • The Desktop App we use on windows has some bugs, like when Mattermost is down and comes back up, the app needs restart
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    Likelihood to Renew
    GitLab
    I really feel the platform has matured quite faster than others, and it is always at the top of its game compared to the different vendors like GitHub, Azure pipelines, CircleCI, Travis, Jenkins. Since it provides, agents, CI/CD, repository hosting, Secrets management, user management, and Single Sign on; among other features
    Incentivized
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    Mattermost
    Mattermost has been an excellent tool for our business, allowing for a very cost-effective means of communicating, collaborating, and sharing project and business documentation and resources. The free community edition allows for simple installation on existing cloud server resources which results in significantly lower recurring costs compared to the competition
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    Usability
    GitLab
    - As a combination of features and products, GitLab is a really great tool for developers. - Also, it comes with both light and quick changes in a web browser version, as well as pro work in VS Code mode. However, in certain areas, such as large-scale issues/incidents, management can be improved.
    Incentivized
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    Mattermost
    Since it helps track all the things at one place and the bots can be made which helps to automate many tasks. We use it in our security incident tracking in which there are pre defined tasks like adding people, creating groups, launching bots. All these things make the work easier and oraganized
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    Reliability and Availability
    GitLab
    I've never had experienced outages from GItlab itself, but regarding the code I have deployed to Gitlab, the history helps a lot to trace the cause of the issue or performing a rollback to go back to a working version
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    Mattermost
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    GitLab
    GItlab reponsiveness is amazing, has never left me IDLE. I've never had issues even with complex projects. I have not experienced any issues when integrating it with agents for example or SSO
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    Mattermost
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    GitLab
    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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    Mattermost
    We have not had to contact support for Mattermost ever. All that we have needed has been available in the documentation or website. One of our DevOps team members set it up in a couple of hours. The whole team was using Mattermost that same day. No support needed.
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    Implementation Rating
    GitLab
    No answers on this topic
    Mattermost
    This went as expected. No surprises or major hurdles.
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    Alternatives Considered
    GitLab
    GitHub is an inferior product from most points of view. We had to use it and the teams finds no positives about it. Everything is a downgrade from our previous GitLab solution. GitLab CI\CD is vastly superior to workflows, for example doing a manual node is just "when : manual" in GitLab while you have to do clickops in GitHub to achieve the same. No overview of code in branches is a minus when we tried to figure out what our colleagues are trying to merge as it looked off.
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    Mattermost
    I feel slack is a bit more difficult to use overall than Mattermost. Mattermost makes the tasks of communicating across departments and team members easier, as well as giving the ability to share information via hyper links, attachments, and other forms of communication among every body here. Also, easier user interface
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    Scalability
    GitLab
    I think is very well designed, and like any VCS it works as intended
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    Mattermost
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    GitLab
    • GitLab cut down our spent on container, package and infrastructure registry
    • Best thing is we can now have everything in single platform which cost effective too
    • Quality of support is really good and they do have emergency support team as well which is great
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    Mattermost
    • Improved Communication Efficiency by consolidating all the variety of messaging apps etc
    • real-time communication and collaboration has improved the orgs ability to address issues and implement changes rapidly.
    • Accelerated decision-making processes, reducing the time required for team approvals and discussions which used to be in back and forth emails.
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    ScreenShots

    GitLab Screenshots

    Screenshot of What is Intelligent Orchestration for DevSecOps?Screenshot of an overview of GitLab Duo Agent PlatformScreenshot of a new agent creation screen

    Mattermost Screenshots

    Screenshot of Channels: All team communications in one place.Screenshot of Playbooks: Orchestrates work across tools and teams.Screenshot of Boards: Project planning and milestones.Screenshot of Connections: Unites the entire technology stack through a single point of collaboration.