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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    GitLab

    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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    Sourcetree

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ASourcetree, by Atlassian, is a free version control client for Mac and Windows that works with Git and Mercurial repositories. It's distributed version control allows developers to visualize code, review changesets, stash, cherry-pick between branches or commit with a single click.

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    Pricing
    GitLabSourcetree
    Editions & Modules
    GitLab Free (self-managed)
    $0
    GitLab Free
    $0
    GitLab Premium
    $29
    per month per user
    GitLab Premium (self-managed)
    $29
    per month per user
    GitLab Ultimate
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    GitLab Ultimate (self-managed)
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GitLabSourcetree
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    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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    GitLabSourcetree
    Considered Both Products
    GitLab
    Chose GitLab
    GitLab has all the features at one place and also provides plenty of customization for runners
    Incentivized
    Chose 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" …
    Incentivized
    Atlassian
    Chose Sourcetree
    I actually recommend GitHub Desktop for any developer who uses git. It's far more friendly, has good functionality but not overwhelming, and you don't need to use it for GitHub repos.
    Sourcetree is only good for if you're wanting to perform complex actions or audit historical …
    Incentivized
    Chose Sourcetree
    Sourcetree allows seamless integration across all widely used GIT services and is cross-platform compatible. This client is capable of managing workflows of any difficulty and its cross-compatibility eliminates the need to use different or multiple GIT clients altogether.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    150 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    135 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    152 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    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
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    120 Answers
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    GitLabSourcetree
    Version Control Software Features
    Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of GitLab and Sourcetree
    Feature
    GitLab
    -
    Ratings
    Sourcetree
    8.9
    3 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Branching and Merging00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Version History00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Version Control Collaboration Tools00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Pull Requests00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
    Code Review Tools00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
    Project Access Control00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Automated Testing Integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Issue Tracking Integration00 Ratings8.12 Ratings
    Branch Protection00 Ratings8.72 Ratings
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    GitLabSourcetree
    Small Businesses
    GitGuardian
    Score9 out of 10
    GitHub
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Git
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Perforce P4
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GitLabSourcetree
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (168 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (20 ratings)
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GitLabSourcetree
    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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    Atlassian
    Sourcetree is a great tool for any Git user. Whether you're well versed using Git commands in the terminal or a newbie, this tool wonderfully supplements your workflow. A quick glance at the UI and you know where your project stands. I find it most helpful when I need to determine what changed in a particular file in past commits. Having a visual graph of branches helps me to understand the big picture. Even though I'm comfortable operating Git most often in the command line, I always have Sourcetree open to check my work and see where my colleagues are.
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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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    Atlassian
    • Merge Changes - helping you handle merge conflicts.
    • Comparing branches.
    • Visually showing various paths that existing branches are following.
    • It is easy to import already downloaded repositories.
    • And it integrates with Bitbucket (web), where I can click a menu in Bitbucket and have it download and import the repo to my local environment.
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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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    Atlassian
    • As an Atlassian product i'd have expected smart integrations/features with their other developer products like Jira or BitBucket, but this is not the case. It can sometimes pick up on Jira ticket IDs and show them as a label or as a unique piece of work to follow. But there's no actual integration to Jira and is just simple pattern matching.
    • For the majority of developers it's just overwhelming and overkill. There's a plethora of metadata, supporting information, and many many actions/tools to help perform complex git actions. This is great if you're managing complex repos or need to perform an audit, but to the average user it's just not a user friendly experience due to how bloated it can feel.
    • Very simple git actions such as 'git pull' have been massively overcomplicated. When pressing the pull button you get a popup with multiple dropdowns, checkboxes and settings on how you want to pull and the followup actions to run after the pull, both on the remote repo and local repo. It's just unnecessary and adding complexity where it's not needed.
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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
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    Atlassian
    No answers on this topic
    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.
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    Atlassian
    It is one of the best Git GUIs out there, I have worked with multiple GUIs and this provides more insights and features compared to others, the Tree view and History helps keeping track and reverting commits, With help of different UI elements it helps the new developers to learn git using standards as well.
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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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    Atlassian
    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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    Atlassian
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    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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    Atlassian
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Atlassian
    Sourcetree allows seamless integration across all widely used GIT services and is cross-platform compatible. This client is capable of managing workflows of any difficulty and its cross-compatibility eliminates the need to use different or multiple GIT clients altogether.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    GitLab
    I think is very well designed, and like any VCS it works as intended
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    Atlassian
    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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    Atlassian
    • Makes using Git more pleasurable increasing developer happiness.
    • Visual display of branches and commits with their diff helps me find problems quickly.
    • Complex Git commands are only a click away using Sourcetree.
    Incentivized
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