GitLab Reviews & Ratings 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

Name: GitLab
Rating: 4.4 (1439 reviews)

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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.

Overall experience with GitLab

It Security & Risk Management Associate

50M - 250M USD, Consumer Goods

FAVORABLE

“The Definitive DevSecOps Platform for Securing the Supply Chain on the GCP”

5.0

Jan 27, 2026

Transitioning to GitLab Ultimate has fundamentally shifted our posture from "reactive patching" to "proactive supply chain security". As an organisation heavily invested in the Google ecosystem, the ability to consolidate source code management, CI/CD and security scanning into a single platform has significantly reduced our operational overhead.

IT ASSOCIATE

3B - 10B USD, Retail

CRITICAL

“Exploring Vulnerability Scanning and Resolution on GitLab”

3.0

Nov 15, 2024

GitLab has decent vulnerability scanning features by incorporating the functionality built-in Gitlab CI/CD job configurations. Helps scan container images, package dependencies, and licensed included programming code. Providing a vulnerability report, severity and also recommendations to resolve is pretty handy.

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Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) Tools

About Company

Company Description

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

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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Performance of GitLab Across Market Features

GitLab Likes & Dislikes

The integration between GitLab CI/CD and GCP via Workload Identity Federation is a game-changer for us. We no longer rotate static Service Account JSON keys; instead we rely on short-lived OICD tokens for our pipelines to authenticate with Google Cloud, which drastically reduces our attack surface. Furthermore, the automated SBOM generation and Dependency Scanning are exceptional.

Single UI solution to scan, report review and resolve.

Ease of onboarding and inheriting permissions for users across different teams and required scopes.

The cost jump from the Premium to Ultimate tier is high. It was a hard sell to the finance people, even if the value was there.

Maintenance of software compliance related cicd jobs is tricky. Require more granular level user permissions required to trigger the jobs across shared GitLab projects

Some of the functionality can be buried and difficult to find without looking into the documentation.

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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 10 ratings and reviews for Software Supply Chain Security market. View all 1439 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.2

(10 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star: 30%
4 Star: 40%
3 Star: 30%
2 Star: 0%
1 Star: 0%

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

3.7

Integration & Deployment

4.3

Service & Support

3.8

Product Capabilities

4.1

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It Security & Risk Management Associate
50M-1B USD
Consumer Goods
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The Definitive DevSecOps Platform for Securing the Supply Chain on the GCP
5.0
Jan 27, 2026
Transitioning to GitLab Ultimate has fundamentally shifted our posture from "reactive patching" to "proactive supply chain security". As an organisation heavily invested in the Google ecosystem, the ability to consolidate source code management, CI/CD and security scanning into a single platform has significantly reduced our operational overhead.
IT SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE
50M-1B USD
Software
Review Source
Onboarding Is Streamlined Yet Accessing Advanced Functions Can Be Challenging
4.0
Mar 27, 2026
As a SaaS cloud hosted code repository, it seems to do what you would expect.
RPA DEVELOPER
50M-1B USD
IT Services
Review Source
Decoding the Assurance of Security in SAC Tool
4.0
Dec 8, 2024
I have been working on this tool for a few months SAC is nothing but a security certificate that assures this tool is very secure and protected to their users.
IT ASSOCIATE
1B-10B USD
Retail
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Exploring Vulnerability Scanning and Resolution on GitLab
3.0
Nov 15, 2024
GitLab has decent vulnerability scanning features by incorporating the functionality built-in Gitlab CI/CD job configurations. Helps scan container images, package dependencies, and licensed included programming code. Providing a vulnerability report, severity and also recommendations to resolve is pretty handy.
RPA Developer
50M-1B USD
IT Services
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Exploring the Challenges and Solutions of Overlapping Code Commits
5.0
Sep 16, 2024
very helpful in code management and very secure with the access for users and customers during project handover

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