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GitLab Inc.

GitLab

Composite Score

9.0 /10

CX Score

9.3 /10

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What is GitLab?

With GitLab, Security is built into the CI pipeline, out of the box. Every code commit is automatically scanned for security vulnerabilities in your code and its dependencies. Actionable results are delivered to the developer in their native workflow for rapid remediation.

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Awards & Recognition

GitLab won the following awards in the Application Security Testing category

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2026 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2026

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Conflict Resolution

Latest Award, 2026

2026 Data Quadrant Champion

2026

9 Top Rated Capabilities

16 Top Rated Features

2026

GitLab Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+98 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love GitLab?

1% Negative

1% Neutral

98% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Client Friendly Policies

Feature Ratings

Average 87

SDLC Integration

Vulnerability Scanning

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

Container Security Testing

Risk Scoring

Policy Engine and Enforcements

False Positive Remediation

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) plug-in

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 86

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Quality of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness

GitLab Reviews

Samantha W.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Project management solution that is simple to use

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates GitLab from other similar products?

The testing and vulnerability management features supplied by GitLab are considerably superior to other platforms we've recently used from the standpoint of our security team. Finally, I've found Gitlab to be really useful, particularly in terms of integrating Ci/CD pipelines into our software development cycle for better code quality and faster deployment.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We installed GITLAB on our own servers and configured it to handle a project involving online marketing, applications, development, operations, human resources, and many teams. This relieved us of a significant load. It maintains the high security and flexibility we require to cut check-in times across the company's various divisions. We can also perform code reviews for merging requests and bugs using GitLab. It's also simple to locate the problems.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Only these few aspects of GitLab bother me, it's a little pricey and a little difficult to comprehend for novice users. In comparison to the current method, which I describe as clunky, the request merging process might be much simpler.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

GitLab guarantees that our code is secure and protected, that everything has been versioned, that we can easily communicate with other team members, and that we have a robust QA environment before going live. I use Gitlab, and one of my personal favorites is that we can evaluate the code of our peers, track bugs inside a single merge request, and assign someone to review the merge request.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Respectful
Altruistic
Over Delivered

Farooq S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Retail
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

Must tool for any team developing/testing

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates GitLab from other similar products?

I personally enjoy working with the gitlab it s a must tool for every organization to streamline the code and ensure all the code is clean and available at single point of location, it has very beautiful feature to track the revision of the resource who has checked in the code and compare with the previous revision or local changes.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Review comments and the way it highlight the changes prior to the earlier changes it just simply make the job quite easy. Creation of feature branches and later merge the code with the master branch after review and ensure the clean code is pushed to the main repository

What do you dislike most about this product?

Merge conflicts

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

should make it easy to resolve the merge conflicts through edit file in gitlab UI.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Zaw W.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2022

GitLab to manage my code easily.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates GitLab from other similar products?

I used products similar to GitLab and I have come to the conclusion that it is the best CI/CD solution I have implemented. Its cost is very attractive, it allows to store multiple compilations and it can be easily integrated with devops tools like Jenkins.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like this platform to manage large-scale projects. GitLabs tracks changes to a build, has a well-designed user interface for hosting our source code, and code search.

What do you dislike most about this product?

GitLabs works extremely well.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I recommend connecting Jenkins with GitLab to test builds for optimal GitLab performance.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2026 Emotional Footprint Champion

2026 Data Quadrant Champion

GitLab Ratings

91 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+98 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love GitLab?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

SDLC Integration Integration with source code repository, pipeline, etc.

Vulnerability Scanning Identify security vulnerabilities in applications and middleware.

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Analyzes application source code to identify potential security vulnerabilities.

Container Security Testing Analyzes application containers to identify security vulnerabilities.

Risk Scoring Provides an overall risk score that consolidates and normalizes assessment results and allows for comparisons against other third parties.

Policy Engine and Enforcements Includes standard and/or customizable security policies, and the ability to enforce policies.

False Positive Remediation Resolves false positives using either human curators and/or machine-enabled algorithms.

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) plug-in Provides plug-ins or other means to integrate directly into popular Integrated Development Environments (IDEs).

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) Analyzes applications while in runtime to identify potential security vulnerabilities.

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Analyzes libraries and other components of an application to identify potential security vulnerabilities.

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) Analyzes applications while in runtime to identify potential security vulnerabilities, using automated or human interactions.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

GitLab Reviews

Samantha W.

Project management solution that is simple to use

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Farooq S.

Must tool for any team developing/testing

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Zaw W.

GitLab to manage my code easily.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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