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    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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    GitLab
    Editions & Modules
    GitLab Free (self-managed)
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    GitLab Free
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    GitLab Premium
    $29
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    GitLab Premium (self-managed)
    $29
    per month per user
    GitLab Ultimate
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    Pricing Offerings
    GitLab
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
    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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    Community Pulse
    GitLab
    Considered Both Products
    GitLab
    Chose GitLab
    GitHub is more of a social platform for developers, while Bitbucket is very good if you use Atlassian infrastructure, which we do not, besides Confluence. GitLab is the ultimate enterprise solution IMO and it fits my team very well.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    I was not involved in decision-making. However, a combination of GitLab's features is the product's main USP. So it is a practical choice for any organization. Also, there has been considerable adoption of GitLab in recent times due to this.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    I was not in charge of the product selection.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    GitLab is generally the more advanced/technical vendor compared to some of the other competitors. I think it's on the same level as GitHub but GitHub feels a little easier to use in my opinion. It's definitely more feature rich than Bitbucket and a lot of 3rd party vendors tend …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    Our Architecture choosed GitLab for its compatability in functionalities and cost effectiveness.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    I really hasn't used any product that is a direct competitor of GitLab.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    Could not self host out the free tier for us was a must as a consultant business.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    I've only used the free web version of GitHub but comparing that to GitLab I prefer to work with GitLab. I use it for home use as well
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    GitLab is a cost effective alternative to names like GitHub and others. It provides easy to use interface that is not dissimilar from GitHub and Atlassian Bitbucket. Where GitLab really shines is in its simplicity and ease of use. It's very intuitive and effectively allows a …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    It is easy to use , devsecops/ dataops / gitops implementation is quite easy and straightforward compared to other tools which we have tested , it provides seamless integration with tools like dbt , talend , snowflake , collibra and python. Merge issues as well as pipeline …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    Personally I like reviewing on GitLab better than GitHub, but it's not a huge difference.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    I liked GitLab better than Beanstalk. GitLab had a free option, which Beanstalk did not at the time. From what I have used of Bitbucket, I probably like it better than GitLab, specifically I like the design better. Doing things in Bitbucket seemed a bit slower to me though. Now …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    GitLab is widely used throughout the developer community and provides all the required features industry wide. Many of the paid features help the team a lot to achieve efficient source code management. Many features like vulnerability management and AI chat while code review in …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    Gitlab is an industry standard tool for version controlling of the source code with multiple features used by the developers to maintain efficient development process and scalable services integration on the larger code bases. Multiple tools like AI code review helps the …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    GitLab is an industry standard software and provides alot of features helpful for the developers with a suitable price point. It has most of the features that are provided and are useful. Team management and security for the source code and restrictions helps achieve all the …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    Why we chose GitLab: we started long ago with free access and it was always good enough, so we never bothered to switch.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    GitLab is an all-in-one Git and CI/CD platform that also offers generous credits in its free plan. It allows both private and public projects. The pipelines can be fully defined in YAML files put under version control.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    GitLab is superior to Beanstalk but still lacking in some areas in comparison to newer features to GitHub. However, it's enterprise based approach is very attractive to many of our top tier clients making it and effective solution for us within their organizations. It's well …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    We have recently migrated from Bamboo to GitLab across our enterprise as part of our tech modernization roadmap. GitLab provides a all-in-one platform for integrated code management. The only advantage that Bamboo had over GitLab was the integration with JIRA. The streamlined …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    In our case, we opted for an open source solution and complete control of information, meaning we kept critical information and company developments in-house.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    GitLab has all the features at one place and also provides plenty of customization for runners
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    As mentioned earlier, the features like chart visualization sets it apart from the others. Other than that, GitLab is open source while other are not and comparatively more secure that its other counterparts. Also, GitLab supports adding other types of attachments which is not …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    When i was using the other platform, Some time i face down time, But GitLabs its not happening for single time. GitLab is having easy user interference as compared to other platforms. Pull Request, Code review, Issue tracking, Merging, Access control and User Roles is having a …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitLab
    GitLab is miles ahead of the competition. In so many words, having a simple UI with robust security and the ability to conduct Git actions takes the cake. The competitions like to say they can do these things easily but their products are more confusing and hard to use.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    135 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    152 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
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    GitGuardian
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GitLab
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (168 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (20 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GitLab
    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Scalability
    GitLab
    I think is very well designed, and like any VCS it works as intended
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    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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