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GitLab

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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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Value Streams Dashboard
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Overall experience with GitLab

IT Manager
<50M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Robust integrations enable unified workflows, but UI feels cluttered”

4.0
Jul 14, 2026
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Associate Software Engineer
3B - 10B USD, Software
CRITICAL

“With so many to pick from, is GitLab really your best choice?”

3.0
Jul 9, 2026
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2026
For Market:
Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) Tools

Key Insights

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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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GitLab Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(751 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
54%
4 Star
43%
3 Star
4%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • IT Manager
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Robust integrations enable unified workflows, but UI feels cluttered

    4.0
    Jul 14, 2026
    Gitlab works as an single DevSecOps(Developmet-Security-Operations) data orchestration layer within our daily projects. It breaks the bad habit of the siloed work approach with its robust data integrations across multicloud infrastructure. Gitlab has helped by deploying and automated metrics framework that is secure and easy to use. Enterprises can accurately check/track DORA metrics to check stability and velocity which is a great plus. The continuous benchmarking in the platform identifies performance bottlenecks, and the high-level access control mechanism supports compliance without slowing down development.
  • IT Manager
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Robust integrations enable unified workflows, but UI feels cluttered

    4.0
    Jul 14, 2026
    Gitlab works as an single DevSecOps(Developmet-Security-Operations) data orchestration layer within our daily projects. It breaks the bad habit of the siloed work approach with its robust data integrations across multicloud infrastructure. Gitlab has helped by deploying and automated metrics framework that is secure and easy to use. Enterprises can accurately check/track DORA metrics to check stability and velocity which is a great plus. The continuous benchmarking in the platform identifies performance bottlenecks, and the high-level access control mechanism supports compliance without slowing down development.
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User Sentiment About GitLab
Reviewer Insights for: GitLab
Performance of GitLab Across Market Features

GitLab Likes & Dislikes

Like

1) All under a single roof: Developers prefer to have a single tool that can cover CI/CD, security scanning, container registries and project management, which is covered by gitlab 2)Top of the range CI/CD: It's highly regarded for its simplicity and power and everything is configured over a straightforward file in the repo which supports pipeline-as-code. 3) Great self hosting capabilities: It offers great self hosting options for developers who are working under very strict data privacy regulations

Like

1) All under a single roof: Developers prefer to have a single tool that can cover CI/CD, security scanning, container registries and project management, which is covered by gitlab 2)Top of the range CI/CD: It's highly regarded for its simplicity and power and everything is configured over a straightforward file in the repo which supports pipeline-as-code. 3) Great self hosting capabilities: It offers great self hosting options for developers who are working under very strict data privacy regulations

Like

1) All under a single roof: Developers prefer to have a single tool that can cover CI/CD, security scanning, container registries and project management, which is covered by gitlab 2)Top of the range CI/CD: It's highly regarded for its simplicity and power and everything is configured over a straightforward file in the repo which supports pipeline-as-code. 3) Great self hosting capabilities: It offers great self hosting options for developers who are working under very strict data privacy regulations

Dislike

- popularity and market share, there were few features that would persuade me to switch from a more popular VC and delivery platform to GitLab - maintenance and support is lacking - busy interface - some advanced features were not available to the use-case I investigated the tool for

Dislike

- popularity and market share, there were few features that would persuade me to switch from a more popular VC and delivery platform to GitLab - maintenance and support is lacking - busy interface - some advanced features were not available to the use-case I investigated the tool for

Dislike

- popularity and market share, there were few features that would persuade me to switch from a more popular VC and delivery platform to GitLab - maintenance and support is lacking - busy interface - some advanced features were not available to the use-case I investigated the tool for