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Overview

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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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 8.3
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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 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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A very valuable, Cost effective and Performance booster platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 17, 2025
PC
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
5 years of experience
  • Source code management
  • Issues tracking and linking with commits
  • Intigration with build creation tools and deveopes
  • Proper documentation of the features and operations
Cons
  • Some time its taking time in loading
  • Can improve the UI part
  • Graph view of commits is littlebit confusing in case of number of branches, It can be little bit improve

Making development life easy with GitLab

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 12, 2025
NG
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
3 years of experience
  • one can create repository where multiple people in the team can work together and track the progress.
  • CI/CD pipelines can be created to host the code and handle the deployment in dev/qa/prod servers.
  • graph visualization of the work that has been completed in the milestones.
Cons
  • for the first time user, code review is little complicated.
  • there are some bugs which makes user experience complex.
  • after creating a PR, it is little complex to approve and merge changes.

GitLab: The best SCM and CI platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 19, 2025
PJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
4 years of experience
  • Safe and Highly Available.
  • Integrated CI platform with default and custom runner support.
  • Support of Kubernetes Deployments.
  • Integrated SAST and DAST scans.
Cons
  • Default runners are a bit slow.
  • Pricing is a bit high.

GitLab The Ultimate Go-To Software for Seamless CICD Integration

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 28, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
2 years of experience
  • Helps in building and streamlines the development to deployment flow.
  • Provides a way to establish a custom CI\CD Windows runner for building a pipeline
  • Version Control with more authentication and features as locking
Cons
  • Provide some default runners
  • Easier flow for adding custom runners
  • More ways to provide yml file for build processes.

Modern VCS for Next Gen Agile Development.

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 22, 2024
AF
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
6 years of experience
  • Version Tracking.
  • Diff analysis between revisions.
  • CI/CD Pipeline Creation and Maintenance.
Cons
  • More templates for common project use cases.
  • Ability to track vulnerabilities on a specific branch, instead of just the default one.
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