GitLab Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.7 out of 10

Score

8.7 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for GitLab are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Cloud-Based UI and Git Integration: Users have praised the cloud-based UI of GitLab for supporting Git version control, allowing local checkout, and enabling multiple developers to work simultaneously in one file. The reduction of code conflicts and enhanced collaboration are highlighted benefits of this feature.

Integration Features: Reviewers highly value the integration of GitLab with version control, code review, and project management features. They find it easy to configure GitLab runners for running tests and defining permissions using Terraform, which streamlines their development processes effectively.

CI/CD Capabilities: Users find the CI/CD pipelines, merge requests, and open-source nature of GitLab beneficial for their development workflows. They appreciate the platform's integrations with other tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, and Toad. Additionally, they praise its security features for ensuring a safe software deployment environment.

Reviews

157 Reviews

The Perfect VCS Solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 15, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GitLab serves as the backbone of our entire software development lifecycle. Our engineering team uses GitLab for source control, code review, and CI/CD across multiple codebases.

MR-based workflows help enforce code standards and keep our team aligned on shared codebases, spanning multiple stacks.

Pros

Version control
Diff UI
Code review process
Notifications
Ease of use

Cons

MCP server integration is unreliable
Large MRs can cause the UI to lag/timeout
No first-class post-merge pipeline trigger

Likelihood to Recommend

GitLab is well suited to teams that need to adhere to strict, well-defined processes, and manage their complete software development lifecycle efficiently. From simple drafts and proofs of concept, all the way to shipping enterprise quality production ready software, GitLab is capable of managing it all. It's a one stop shop!

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Perfect tool for Devsecops

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 9, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using GitLab primarily to implement a DevSecOps dataops-like solution, so it is a main orchestration plus code repository that links all other tools to help create data products that are published in a shoppable marketplace.We have linked DBT, Monte Carlo, Talend, Snowflake, Collibra, collibra all with GitLab to allow us to create data products.

Pros

Yml files handling
GitLab CI pipeline orchestration
Integration with other tools like talend , snowflake , dbt, Monte carlo
Code review

Cons

GitLab ci debugging is difficult in case of failures
When pipeline grows using extends , references , includes make yml files very hard to read
GitLab is not yet smooth to use for project management with the issues in GitLab.

Likelihood to Recommend

We have developed a dataops solution making GitLab central to host all the code and connections between different tools while making use of GitLab-CI.yml to orchestrate the flow. While all these are nice for implementation, we have found an issue while managing the entire project via GitLab, as there is still a disconnect between project issues and project management in GitLab, so we have to use Jira for that.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

It gets the job done

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

April 8, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use GitLab as a source code repository and the main build environment for most of our projects. It allows us to have a comprehensive CI environment that easily separates the quick developer flow with the more comprehensive acceptance testing for a release.

Pros

Source code repository (it's just git...)
CI orchestration
container registry

Cons

It's not possible to chain MR in different projects
It's not easy to orchestrate CI flows across different projects
secret management isn't always the easiest

Likelihood to Recommend

It does a pretty good job across the board, but unless you're already a GitLab organization, it seems like GitHub is the easier choice.

Verified User

Manager in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

GitLab is a good self hosted option

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

November 6, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used GitLab to manage all the code in our projects. As a source control service, it kept a history of all our progress, allowing us to see changes, retrieve old code, and roll back changes. We also used it for collaboration, allowing team members to review code before it was merged and deployed.

Pros

source control
code reviews
collaboration
deployments
code history

Cons

better design
AI integration
not as commonly used as GitHub

Likelihood to Recommend

The primary reason we used GitLab was because it could be self-hosted, allowing us to have full control of the source control environment and complete control of who could access the code. The downside to self-hosting though is that you are responsible for keeping it updated, and our instance was consistently behind on updates. GitLab is also a good alternative if you do not want your code to be under the control of Microsoft, and potentially their AI.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Improved Collaboration with GitLab CI

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

October 13, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we genrally use github in developping our web applications, by using repositories and optimizing time in most of time

Pros

Single Application for the DevSecOps Lifecycle
Self-Hosted & Enterprise-Ready
Kubernetes & Cloud-Native Integration

Cons

Integration Ecosystem
Performance at Scale
Built-in Security Scanning – Not Always Practical

Likelihood to Recommend

CI/CD Integrations

Verified User

Account Manager in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Best Version Control tool for new Developers

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 13, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a budding software developer, I am part of many teams to learn different software flows and delivery parameters. I came across GitLab through one of my colleague, who works with C# plugins and was facing issues with standardizing delivery parameters for executables. He was able to integrate CI/CD pipelines very conveniently using GitLab.

Pros

Security on branches and version control
AI tools for code review
Provides multiple ways to implement CI/CD

Cons

Features are similar in ultimate and premium tier
Support tickets take longer to resolve
UI gets freeze

Likelihood to Recommend

GitLab is best suited for new developers who want to learn scripting and automation using runners it helps in standardizing creation of executables. It also provides different ways for issue tracking and resolving merge conflicts. The code reviewer has a lot of options to provide his insights about the pull requests raised. The free tier has limited features as compared to some other software.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Easy way to implement CICD

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 10, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, I work as development team member, I have to manage different code bases with a team of individuals. In that process, there are certain parameters for code reviews and quality checks for deliverables GitLab helps in implementing CI/CD pipeline for an efficient way to create deliverables it also provides shared and instance-based runners.

Pros

CI/CD pipeline implementation
AI tools for code review
Version control of source code
Privacy parameter implementation

Cons

UI refresh takes time
Limited feature on the general tier
CI/CD additional scripting

Likelihood to Recommend

I am working on multiple automation plugins based on dotnet framework, i have to create deliverables as executable for the client , features from GitLab like AI tool to check sensitive information like environment variables and hashes don't get pushed on to the branches also it helps in maintaining a check on versions of dlls which helps the code reviewer to maintain code structure and nomenclature. Sometimes UI updating is not accurate but it can be neglected.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

GitLab a helpful tool for developers

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 8, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my organization I work as Software Developer, and I have to manage several different codebases based on different plugins and websites, GitLab as version control repository management software, it helps in integrating CI/CD pipelines for streamlining delivery process, it also helps team management and issue tracking with code review functionalities.

Pros

Version Control
CI/CD pipeline integration and automation
Issue Tracking
AI assistance for code review

Cons

Sometimes UI elements dont refresh after changes has been made
CI/CD automation scripting sometimes require power shell access
Ultimate tier and professional tier are similar

Likelihood to Recommend

As i have worked on many plugins based on C# and .NET, these plugin require a lot of scripting for delivering the executable and sometimes changing versions of dll become hard to manage, this is where GitLab comes in and helps instreamling the process and help integrate, CI/CD to efficiently create the executables. The UI updation sometimes is not accurate otherwise the software is flawless

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

GitLab is a great all-in-one platform for software development

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 18, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use GitLab mainly for code hosting, CI/CD, and issue tracking. It helps us in keeping development organised, automating deployments, and making collaboration easy. Our scope is pretty standard: managing source code, running tests, deploying services, and tracking bugs/features all in one place. We also use it for a few non-technology projects (but for people who are in close collaboration with the engineering team).

Pros

CI/CD
Source code hosting
Visualisation of test results
Merge requests

Cons

Access roles
Wiki pages editor

Likelihood to Recommend

I'm very likely to recommend it as all-in-one platform for software development projects. It really does the job. I will also put a disclaimer that it's not perfect (mainly in the UX). But it is very straightforward in many aspects, which is great

Fedor Tyurin

CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Engineering at Enable Banking (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

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A versatile Git and CICD platform

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 5, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GitLab is our CI/CD platform of choice, which we use to manage our code, product builds and deployments in an automated way. It's very powerful and it allows us to define custom pipelines in YAML files that we can put under version control in the platform itself. It supports every Git functionality that any company, big or small, would need to store code, environment variables, review merge requests, resolve merge conflicts and handle merges from multiple users. In summary, it's a very powerful all-in-one platform.

Pros

Define CI/CD pipelines as code
Store your code
Allow merge request reviews
Store secrets as environment variables

Cons

The free version was a bit slow

Likelihood to Recommend

It's a complete solution to store your code, perform code reviews and automate your builds and deployments through automation. Pipelines defined with YAML files are especially useful and powerful. Any company, regardless of the size of the team or the project would find it extremely helpful. Secrets used by the build agents can also be stored in the platform itseld as environment variables.

Alberto López del Toro

Staff Software Engineer in Engineering at Ocado Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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