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What is GitLab?

GitLab DevSecOps platform enables software innovation by aiming to empower development, security, and operations teams to build better software, faster. With GitLab, teams can create, deliver, and manage code quickly and continuously instead of managing disparate tools and scripts.…

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GitLab The Ultimate Go-To Software for Seamless CICD Integration

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 28, 2025
Vetted ReviewVerified User
It is one of the top-of-the-line open-core DevOPs Software packages which provides all functions of securing a software code base and also provides a way to establish a custom...
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Engineer
GitLab2 years of experience

Making development life easy with GitLab

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 12, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I have used GitLab previously in one of the team project. The built in CI/CD pipeline feature helps a lot where we don't have to worry about deploying the code manually after ...
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Nirmal Gaur
Employee - Information Technology
Software Developer
Cumulations Technologies
GitLab3 years of experience

GitLab: The best SCM and CI platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 19, 2025
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We are using GitLab as a cloud-based SCM service which we use to keep our application source code safe, secure, and easily accessible. We are also using GitLab as a CICD tool....
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Pranay Jain
Consultant - Information Technology
Senior Consultant
GeeksRadar
GitLab4 years of experience

A very valuable, Cost effective and Performance booster platform

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 3, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
My organization is using git for the source code management like pull, push, merge request and changes history. We are also using GitLab to track the issues and resolutions. I...
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Pankaj Choudhary
Engineer - Engineering
Freelancer Android Developer
Freelancer
GitLab5 years of experience

Modern VCS for Next Gen Agile Development.

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 22, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Gitlab to track issues by project, whether Terraform IaC projects, Node JS projects, Jupyter Notebook data analysis products, or custom in-house Python packages. We als...
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Austin Franchino
Engineer - Engineering
Senior Data and Security Engineer
Lumos Data
GitLab6 years of experience
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How GitLab Differs From Its Competitors

Continuous Integration

As we have more than 30 developers on our team and daily we are having approx 150-200 commits, as per our requirement GitLab is helping us very much from per continuous integration point of view. Daily code push, code reviews, merges everything is going on and it helped a lot in terms of …
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Security

We will use Sonar to identify the security and vulnerability of the code. Using the GitLab security feature, we could view the report where we are lacking and what we need to fix. It showcases all vulnerabilities and categories based on severity.
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Security

We haven't tried out GitLab security vulnerability features to detect and mitigate them. We rely on third-party vendors and static code analysis tools for detecting [and] mitigating security vulnerabilities across the codebase.
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Continuous Integration

GitLab provides excellent integration with continuous integration techniques to deploy [and] test at scale for every branch. As a developer within our team would use the CI feature to test the test cases for every branch before merging them into production branches. This way it has completely …
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Continuous Integration

In addition to speeding up the process, the customer was even more satisfied with the integrity of the system's features, thanks to the font control and CI that GitLab delivers, ensuring that fonts are always up to date.
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Continuous Integration

We use this feature every day. It allows us to work as a DevOps team where our software developers are fixing/creating features. Our integration and test group can create procedures and documentation to navigate our code and builds. Also to have a version we know things were working from and …
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Security

We use the Ultimate tier from Gitlab's pricing range which allows us to the DevSecOps features. We use the Gitlab ci and cd to build and test our code using SAST to find any vulnerabilities. We also use container scanning to find issues in the docker images and license check to make sure our …
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Continuous Integration

Yes, we use the Gitlab provided continuous integration features to review the app using Static Application Security Testing to spot vulnerabilities in the code, Container scanning to detect problems in docker images and license compliance for the legality of the packages. This has reduced hum …
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Security

Gitlab's security features were quite helpful when our team was trying to rush towards deadlines and focus primarily on development. Although not fool-proof, with the security dashboard providing feedback about the most important security vulnerabilities to look into, we did not have to work on …
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Security

GitLab is pretty secure as it works on your private network, has limitations on how many requests can be sent per minute, has options to restrict access (authorization), and has an authentication (user has to log in before accessing any repos), etc. These are some of the things that make it secure.
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Continuous Integration

GitLab allows your team to work on the same module and then push their code in their respective branches and get it merged by someone who has the access. We have been using this as our team works on a project which is shared by other teams as well. Everyone works on their own modules (sometimes …
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Continuous Integration

CI/CD plays a great role in our company. It helps us to deploy our code quickly and we use merge requests to review the code to avoid getting errors in the code. Sometimes when dealing with complex merge conflicts it becomes a headache, still most of the time it does its job greatly.
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Continuous Integration

We have not yet enabled continuous integration into our practices. We are actively discussing the possibility and are working through the details of it. We are trying to shift the mindset of our users, and to adhere to DevOPS best practices, but still have a ways to before that happens. But it is …
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Continuous Integration

GitLab is a great collaboration platform that allows multiple people in a team to work together on a single project. Each employee pushes their code into their branches and then gets it merged. If there is an issue with it, GitLab will show merge conflicts and how to resolve them. This is a great …
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Security

Yes, we did move to GitLab paid plan but haven't noticed any security vulnerabilities so I can't comment on this but overall GitLab is safe and secure to use.
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Continuous Integration

It helps us to identify conflicts between teams that may be touching the same components faster, thus allowing us to carry out rapid coordination and not fall on top of each other's changes.This helps to solve the problems faster and not to be looking for what caused the affectation.
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Security

We only bought the shared runner pipeline minutes once, and it made our requirement fulfilled. All our use cases are covered in the free plan. In terms of security, it notifies us if it found any vulnerability or any deprecated packages we are using. Most of our repositories are private, which …
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Continuous Integration

The ability of code sharing between teams is one of the topmost features of GitLab and helps us team to easily pull or push the code. The merging of code is also seamless. Our code review team can easily compare and review the codes and make an informed decision.
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Continuous Integration

This is the main feature our team uses for day to day activities. All the projects are made in GitLab and their version control is done in GitLab only. all the branches are made in GitLab and merge requests process fleo from creation to review is done in GitLab. Auro pipelines are also triggered …
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Security

GitLab's integrated security suite helped us identify vulnerabilities we weren't aware of. It's real strength is integrating it into your merge process, making sure that the security analysis always runs on any new code.
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Continuous Integration

We generally use multiple continuous integration (CI) pipelines for each project we have. We have pipelines running and reporting on our unit tests, on our code coverage, building our (Docker) containers or even automatically deploying the new software. It all helps immensely maintaining and …
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Security

There have been instances where we were using some outdated packages and some vulnerable plugins, GitLab gave us some warning s about those and we had those removed so in terms of security also they are doing quite neat job.
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Continuous Integration

In our GitLab projects we have pre-merge and post-merge pipelines. In the pre-merge pipelines we have jobs to verify static analysis, unit tests, feature tests, e2e tests, secrets detection, style verification, building verification, and we also check that before merging to any of the main stages, …
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Continuous Integration

The shared repository feature has allowed us to collectively upload code and GitLab will trigger the code integration which allows for reduction in manual integration efforts. This allows for frequent code commits without conflicting code changes.
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Security

GitLab provides role-based and group-based permission. Admin can set up the access based on their role so that developers can only do the thing that they are allowed to do. E.g. if a developer is not allowed to approve the merge request then the merge button will be disabled for him until the …
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Continuous Integration

GitLab provides pipelines every time when code is committed respective pipelines run to validate the code. If a pipeline is failing it means the code has some vulnerabilities which need to be corrected immediately. It also provides unit test reports and load performance testing to reduce code …
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Security

Security feature detects the common and most known vulnerabilities that help to keep code sanity and code security up to date.
It reduce the burdens of Team leads.
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Continuous Integration

Continues Integration is one the critical feature required in today's Engineering Team.
First, with CI code commit can be done in seconds.
Second, once everyone used to it, there will highly fewer chances from resources losing the code in case of the local machine is corrupted.
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Security

Security considerations in GitLab are mainly covered by the security team in my organization. However, colleagues dedicated to the security of the company have been satisfied with GitLab and the features that the application has to offer when it comes to integrating the tool with the general …
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Continuous Integration

We use GitLab to precisely share code and manage versions of IaC in AWS and applications for our clients. The ability to merge requests and manage versions makes it easy for our team to reduce redundancy in our code and efficiently manage progress of our applications. It has also been an essential …
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Awards

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Pricing

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GitLab Essential

$0

Cloud
per month per user

GitLab Premium

$29

Cloud
per month per user

GitLab Ultimate

$99

Cloud
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://about.gitlab.com/pricing?utm_me…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Version Control Software Features

Version Control Software Features allow uses to manage and control document history and versions.

8.6
Avg 8.0
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Product Details

What is GitLab?

GitLab DevSecOps platform enables software innovation by aiming to empower development, security, and operations teams to build better software, faster. With GitLab, teams can create, deliver, and manage code quickly and continuously instead of managing disparate tools and scripts. GitLab helps teams across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, from developing, securing, and deploying software.

Differentiators, as described by Gitlab:

  • Simplicity: With GitLab, DevSecOps can be achieved through a single platform with a user-friendly interface
  • Security: GitLab offers built-in security scans that provides a comprehensive security solution.
  • Transparency: The code base for GitLab is open to community contributions, to ensure transparency and an open-core approach.
  • Cloud-Agnostic: Can be deployed anywhere with no vendor lock-in

GitLab Screenshots

Screenshot of GitLab, a comprehensive DevSecOps platform.Screenshot of Security DashboardScreenshot of Merge Request

GitLab Integrations

GitLab Competitors

GitLab Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac, BSD* (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS or later), Android, iOS, full list see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/security/approved_os.html
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesInternational
Supported LanguagesChinese, English, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

GitLab starts at $0.

JFrog Artifactory, Jira Align, and Jenkins are common alternatives for GitLab.

Reviewers rate Branch Protection highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of GitLab are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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GitLab a Version Control Tool

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 26, 2022
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I have been using GitLab for 3 years as a version control software for our product. Maintaining project code with multiple developers gets easy with GitLab. Generating pull requests for different branches and solving conflicts among branches is easy using GitLab, and the main benefit is GitLab is open source, so it is cost effective to use.
Pros
  • Code review functionality for pull requests
  • Performance monitoring
  • GitLab is open source
  • Integration with other tools to be used to automate our deployments
Cons
  • Paid plans are costly
Likelihood to Recommend
Working with multiple teammates on the same files is easy cause merging code with conflicts is easy after pull request generation using GitLab.

Gitlab as a version control software

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
April 14, 2022
AC
Ashvin Choudhary
Senior Software Engineer
CSS Corp (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
5 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use GitLab for the maintenance of our codebase, we created multiple branches for the multiple environments(stage, pre-live, production). Daily we are using it to push the code, have code reviews, merge the code and deploy it on the server. As we need a private repository and have multiple developers who collaborate on the development GitLab is best suited for us.
Pros
  • Built-in continuous integration and continuous delivery features.
  • Creation and management of private repos.
  • Access control of the repo.
Cons
  • Menu is a little confusing.
  • CI/CD pipeline brakes sometimes.
  • Occasional crashes happens and you need to restart the server.
Likelihood to Recommend
For the creation of private repositories, it is very well suited, we are getting this feature in the non-premium version also, which is very great. The other functionalities like the creation of repo, and assignment of users are great. UI is very good, we can easily review the merge request and provide our comments.

Bes version control tool is GitLab.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
October 08, 2022
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
GitLab we are used in our organization as a versioning tool to manage the code repository and maintain the version of the files.
Pros
  • Good version control tool with easy UI features.
  • Clean user interface and easy navigation. I miss the cherry-pick option in UI, which doesn't have any other version control.
Cons
  • I don't see any issue as of now. Whatever I use is working fine.
Likelihood to Recommend
GitLab is version control and best fit for the manage the code repository to track the changes and maintain the history of the change.

The best chemistry of version control happens in Gitlab

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
August 13, 2019
KR
Kevin Ritchey
Managing Member
ZenPan Technology Solutions, LLC (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
4 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Gitlab across our entire business, from documentation to code versioning to CI/CD and IaaS. We've used other documentation tools such as Confluence by Atlassian but we keep coming back to Markdown in Gitlab because of the simplicity, exportability, portability, better versioning, better integration - such as with Readthedocs. Our helpdesk team finds Gitlab easy to use. We also use Gitlab for our development teams and operations teams.
Pros
  • Markdown.
  • CI/CD integration.
  • User and group management.
  • Branding.
  • Standard Gitlab implementation.
Cons
  • Themes.
  • Need to reconfigure too often.
  • Use the same Markdown engine everywhere.
Likelihood to Recommend
We would whole-heartedly recommend Gitlab for code versioning with teams across different organizations as the management of users and groups is so easy. CI/CD is built-in and batteries included and because the implementation of Gitlab is standard it is easier to use than Bitbucket. If your organization is already in the Cloud Gitlab is one of the easiest solutions to roll out on AWS, DigitalOcean, GCI, Azure, Linode, etc. Even the management of Gitlab itself can be versioned and deployed using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.

Best in-class version control and CI/CD vendor

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 04, 2021
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Within our software research and development group, we're using GitLab and CI/CD tools to develop products and manage releases/test case infrastructure. We are using a self-hosted version of GitLab edition which primarily integrates with our development environment and testing infrastructure automatically. Additionally, the GitLab groups feature is divided among every research group within the organization.
Pros
  • Source control
  • CI/CD pipeline
Cons
  • Integrate with AWS
  • Integrate with TeamCity
Likelihood to Recommend
GitLab is a recommendable product for open-source research and development teams and [is] well suited for software developers at scale. Additionally, the continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline feature is adaptable for most of the use case deployment/testing infrastructure. Few native integrations are missing such as direct deployment to AWS, Azure which is painful to set up manual Jenkins.
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