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GitLab

byGitLab
in
4.5
2026
Market Presence: DevOps Platforms (Transitioning to DevSecOps Platforms), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools

Overview

Product Information on GitLab

Updated 22nd November 2023

What is GitLab?

GitLab is a comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform for software innovation. The GitLab DevSecOps platform includes all capabilities required to deliver secure software faster with a unified data store, including source code management, continuous integration and delivery, agile project and portfolio planning, GitOps, software supply chain security, compliance management, and value stream management. GitLab empowers customers to improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, build high-performing teams, and accelerate cloud transformation to maximize the overall return on software development.

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Overall experience with GitLab

IT TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE
<50M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“GitLab's Merge Request System Enhances Collaboration and Streamlines Code Reviews”

5.0
Aug 19, 2025
I am a user of Git-Lab as both a code repository and code reviewing tool to streamline the development lifecycle and maintain high code quality. As a Git-based platform, Git-lab provides robust version control capabilities, enabling me to manage branches, track commit history and collaborate with team members in a structured way. I use it to host and organize my source code repositories, ensuring centralized and secure access to the code-base. For code reviews, GitLab’s Merge Request system is highly effective-it allows for inline commenting on change comparisons, threaded discussions, and enforcement of approval rules before changes are merged into the main branch. In addition, GitLab integrates seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines, so every merge request can trigger automated testing, linting and deployment processes, ensuring that only validated and tested code makes it into production.It also supports code quality and security via secure scanning to detect vulnerabilities in the early development phase.
Software Developer
250M - 500M USD, Software
CRITICAL

“GitLab Offers Robust CI/CD Tools With Complexity For Larger Projects”

3.0
Jan 13, 2026
Strong for managing the full SDLC in one place, it has some great CI/CD workflows. GitLab can feel complex at times due to the number of features and configuration options, and performance may vary depending on project size.

Badges

Gartner Peer Insights recognizes vendors who meet or exceed both the market average Overall Experience and the market average User Interest and Adoption score through a Customers’ Choice distinction.
2025
For Market:
DevOps Platforms (Transitioning to DevSecOps Platforms)
2026
For Market:
Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) Tools

About Company

Company Description

Updated 20th November 2023

GitLab is a comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform for software innovation. As a software delivery platform for development, security, and operations teams, GitLab brings security and compliance to AI-powered workflows throughout the software delivery lifecycle, helping customers deliver secure software faster. GitLab Duo, the company’s suite of AI capabilities, improves team collaboration and reduces the security and compliance risks of AI adoption by bringing the entire software development lifecycle into a single AI-powered application that is privacy-first. With GitLab, customers can visualize their end-to-end value streams, boost developer productivity with out-of-the-box analytics, and secure their software supply chain with SAST, DAST, secret detection, container scanning, and API testing. It enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate cloud transformations to maximize the overall return on software development.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2014
Head office location
United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
https://about.gitlab.com/

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User Sentiment About GitLab
Reviewer Insights for: GitLab
Deciding Factors: GitLab Vs. Market Average

GitLab Likes & Dislikes

Like

GitLab is the best for coders, it covers the entire software development lifecycle from planning to coding to testing to deployment with a single interface, it has lots of features like efficient code review process, security and compliance, built in CI/CD, self hosted or cloud, strong access control in a simple way we can enhance collaboration and improve code quality all without needing to switch between multiple tools.

Like

All-in-one DevOps solution Powerful CI/CD with GitLab runners Good collaboration workflow

Like

Points which I would like to appreciate about GitLab are as follows: 1) Capability of providing dynamic test scans helps us keep us up to date with our code and helps us to see what we are doing wrong or what needs to be changed in order to fix the bugs in our environment. 2)Source Code Management is done very efficiently with the tool and it requires simple code like commit and push in order to save our code or branch on a repository. 3) It allows a team to work on the project at same time and keeps record of it and alert you when this is same changes happened on the same part of the code.

Dislike

This was a self-hosted version, setting up and maintaining a self-hosted instance can be complex, especially for smaller teams without dedicated DevOps support.

Dislike

Steeper learning curve CI/CD setup can be time-consuming

Dislike

The points the company can improve are as follows: 1) First time setup can be improved as it becomes an issue sometimes when working on Mac OS. 2) While working on a branch it should specify all the time on which branch we are working instead of running code again and again to check the branch name. 3)Little upgradation of user interface would be more appreciated by the users.

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Peer Discussions

What Your Peers Are Saying About GitLab

Director of Information Security
Best Practices to create a SBOM with EOS/EOL Timeline to aid vulnerability remediation (currently use GitLab as our pipeline and Nexus repository).
Group Director of Information Security
It's a 5-step process which you will need to correlate for your environment. 1. Integrate dependency scanners (e.g., GitLab's built-in scanner, Trivy, Snyk, OWASP Dependency-Check or your existing Nexus repo) to flag outdated dependencies and use GitLab’s security dashboard to monitor deprecated packages. 2. Set up GitLab CI/CD rules to fail builds if EOL/EOS dependencies are detected and enforce allow/block lists for dependencies using GitLab’s security policies. 3. Configure GitLab to generate reports when a dependency is approaching its EOL and see if you can use GitLab’s webhook integrations to notify security teams via Slack, email, or Jira. 4. Implement dependency auto-updating tools (e.g., Renovate, Dependabot) to replace (identified & manually verified) EOL/EOS components. If no direct upgrade path exists, isolate the outdated component via containerization or sandboxing. 5. Maintain a historical record of all SBOMs and EOL/EOS alerts for compliance audits (ISO 27001, NIST, etc.). Regularly conduct security reviews using GitLab’s security reports.
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IT Analyst
What has been your experience utilizing GITLAB (not GITHUB) to implement CI/CD for Athena and AWS GLUE, specifically for a process to transfer changes in Athena Views from the development environment to production?
CTO
We have used gitlab CI CD pipelines using terraform for all AWS resources, not athena or glue specifically though.
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GitLab Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 55 ratings and reviews for Code Review Tools market. View all 1431 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.5

(55 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
56%
4 Star
40%
3 Star
4%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.6

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.7

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  • IT TECHNICAL ASSOCIATE
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    GitLab's Merge Request System Enhances Collaboration and Streamlines Code Reviews

    5.0
    Aug 19, 2025
    I am a user of Git-Lab as both a code repository and code reviewing tool to streamline the development lifecycle and maintain high code quality. As a Git-based platform, Git-lab provides robust version control capabilities, enabling me to manage branches, track commit history and collaborate with team members in a structured way. I use it to host and organize my source code repositories, ensuring centralized and secure access to the code-base. For code reviews, GitLab’s Merge Request system is highly effective-it allows for inline commenting on change comparisons, threaded discussions, and enforcement of approval rules before changes are merged into the main branch. In addition, GitLab integrates seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines, so every merge request can trigger automated testing, linting and deployment processes, ensuring that only validated and tested code makes it into production.It also supports code quality and security via secure scanning to detect vulnerabilities in the early development phase.
  • Project Manager
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Dynamic Test Scans and Team Collaboration Capabilities in GitLab Repository Tool

    5.0
    Dec 23, 2025
    GitLab is the best in market repository tool which helps us manage the versioning of our development of API and allows us to keep track of the changes and roll back capability. Gitlab's functionality of testing and deploying the code makes it easy for us in production.
  • MANAGER, IT SERVICES
    50M-1B USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    A powerful and reliable devsecops platform, but with licensing limitations that impact flexibility

    5.0
    Nov 16, 2025
    my overall experience with gitlab, from installation to daily maintenance, has been very awesome. the platform is stable, reliable and offers a comprehensive suite of devsecops capabilities. however, some features like software project management, could be available on free tier. The model based licensing using per-user pricing can create a rigidity in account management for organizations with large or dynamic teams.
  • SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Powerful, reliable, and genuinely all-in-one for modern dev teams

    5.0
    Nov 3, 2025
    GitLab has completely streamlined how my team and I manage development projects. As a frontend engineer working on multiple large-scale initiatives, I rely on GitLab daily for version control, merge requests, and CI/CD pipelines. In my experience, the platform has been fast, reliable, and intuitive. The visibility it gives me into code reviews and deployment status has saved my team hours of back-and-forth communication.
  • Technical Lead
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Integrating GitLab Streamlined Code Reviews and Improved Developer Collaboration

    4.0
    Jan 16, 2026
    We adopted GitLab's code review tools to standardise our code review process, improve collaboration among developers, and reduce bugs reaches before the production. Our goal was to have a single platform that supports merge requests, inline comments and CI integration without relying on multiple tools.
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