--- title: GitLab Reviews meta_title: 'GitLab Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 901 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how GitLab works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 901 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-09-09' parent_category: name: Source Code Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/source-code-management --- # GitLab Reviews **Vendor:** GitLab Inc. **Category:** [Version Control Hosting Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/version-control-hosting) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 901 **AI Verified:** At least 10 G2 reviewers have confirmed using this product's AI features and functionality. ## About GitLab GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-Powered DevSecOps platform that enables software innovation by empowering 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 your teams across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, from developing, securing, and deploying software. What makes us truly different? - Flexibility: Consume as a service or manage your own deployment - Cloud-Agnostic: Deploy anywhere with no vendor lock-in - No rip and replace: Scale to a platform approach at your own pace ## GitLab Pros & Cons Pros and Cons are compiled from review feedback and grouped into themes to provide an easy-to-understand summary of user reviews. **What users like:** - Users value the **ease of use** in GitLab, enjoying its all-in-one DevOps capabilities and intuitive interface. (39 reviews) - Users value the **all-encompassing features** of GitLab, which enhance collaboration and streamline the DevOps workflow. (38 reviews) - Users love the **seamless CI/CD integration** of GitLab, simplifying automation and collaboration in DevOps workflows. (32 reviews) - Users value the **seamless integrations** in GitLab, resulting in efficient workflows and streamlined management across multiple functions. (32 reviews) - Users praise the **seamless CI/CD integration** in GitLab, enhancing automation and collaboration within their DevOps workflow. (30 reviews) - Users value the **seamless collaboration** features of GitLab, enhancing interactions among developers and project managers. (30 reviews) - Automation (27 reviews) - Git Integration (27 reviews) - Users appreciate the **seamless deployment** capabilities of GitLab, which simplifies CI/CD without additional tools. (26 reviews) - Users love the **effective collaboration features** of GitLab, enhancing teamwork through seamless integration and management tools. (25 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **complexity** of GitLab's setup and management to be a significant barrier to efficient use. (19 reviews) - Users find the **difficult learning** curve of GitLab challenging due to its complex interface and YAML syntax. (17 reviews) - Users find the **interface confusing** due to clutter and slow performance with large repositories, complicating their navigation. (14 reviews) - Users find the **complex user interface** challenging, especially with slow performance and difficulties in navigation and management. (13 reviews) - Users find the **learning curve steep** , particularly for those new to DevOps and managing extensive features. (13 reviews) - Users find GitLab's **limited features** frustrating, especially with advanced options locked behind higher-tier pricing plans. (13 reviews) - Slow Performance (13 reviews) - Users find the **learning difficulty** in GitLab due to its complex UI and ineffective search capabilities frustrating. (12 reviews) - Users find the **missing features** in GitLab, such as conflict resolution and advanced search, frustrating and limiting. (12 reviews) - Performance Issues (12 reviews) ## GitLab Reviews ### 1. Decent repository for beginners **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neeraj J. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Most I liked about GitLab is how easy to use it is and how smooth its UI is. it is perfect for beginners and it is also great that they have CI/CD feature which works very well. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** less connectivity with other development products like Jira and AWS pipeline etc, is what is disliked about GitLab. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was using GitLab as my codebase repository and for CI/CD ### 2. Good for code repository **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yukti A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2020 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about GitLab?** Relatively similar to multiple other code repository hosting websites. Many of the same features of being able to have multiple repositories and create merge requests. Relatively easy to comment on code and create threats in order to make discussions. Is also pretty easy to set up a number of continuous integration and continuous deployment. New features are regularly being added which helps make things easier. We have multiple repositories set up and are able to deploy automatically to our staging environment. We also have a number of tests that are run to ensure that merging into the master of a fully successful and this updates every time there are new merges into master. It also has dark view readily available which is a relief. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** It is not the easiest tool to use for stacked differentials. There are some benefits to arc where merge request A depends on merge request B which is supposed to merge into master. However in kettle have it tends to be better to have people review commit by commit or wait until the first merge request is merged before putting the next one up for review otherwise you're stuck doing a lot of git rebase master or git rebase hard and cherry pick. It is very annoying when you want to make a comment referring to multiple lines of code and you have to insert the line numbers manually. It is also very annoying that you often have to look side by side rather than in line otherwise it gets difficult to read.However the problem with that is you end up needing a widescreen monitor. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were looking for a place to store our code as well as half pipe lines set up to deploy some of that code. We needed a place to do code review. It is nice to hit the merge when everything is complete button after you have reviewed even if all of the unit tests have not finished building yet. We are starting to implement teams so that not everyone gets notified when they need to review. ### 3. Best Source code management tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tins K. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** It's the best and perfect source code management tool we have ever used. We can create as many public or private repositories to manage our work. It is very useful and helpful in automatic works and CI/CD development. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** The platform is very much updated but I think that some premium features pricing is much higher than other market competitors. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides a very attractive and deep visualization of the overall project structure that helps to focus only on product development. The automation and CI/CD integration support enable the developers to mainly focus on the code development. ### 4. Gitlab made life easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raveendra B. | Technical Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Easy to manage the code. GUI is very nice and simple to use. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Nothing. Still there are rooms for improvement **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to integrate with Jenkins and automation problem resolved. ### 5. Gitlab for Code repo and CI/CD **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dhaval C. | Technical Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Gitlab has the potential to do version control, automation, management tool, and much more on a single platform. It has evolved a lot in the past couple of years and has become really mature platform. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** The user interface is quite not good compared to the competitors. Sometimes it's confusing or unusable. It takes time to get habituated with the interface but once you are familiar it's good enough. **Recommendations to others considering GitLab:** Good tool if you want to do CI/CD along with source code management **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Source code management, Code review, Quality checks of the code, CI/CD automation, general analytics of the project, Issue tracking and management, Deployment on multiple environments. ### 6. Almost as good as GitHub **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Faisal N. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** The many ways to create or import a repository and the Web IDE. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Integration with Visual Studio/Code is not there. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Web IDE enables users to edit their full repository in their browser instead of downloading it first. ### 7. The only true alternative for github **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akash D. | Senior Data Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** 1. One of the best remote hosting services for the git-based project available.
2. Excellent support for a native CI/CD service.
3. Ample amount of tools/utility available for effective collaboration, RBAC roles, etc. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** 1. Earlier, GitLab was more focused towards enterprise/paid customers, but this is changing now.
2. They have good CI/CD support, but more tutorial is needed.
3. The online editor needs more features. **Recommendations to others considering GitLab:** Before using GitLab, one must understand the basics of git & its philosophy. Please also understand and implement all the best practices mentioned by GitLab. Also, always give importance to roles & access configuration. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Source control all the project based on git.
2. Add CI/CD pipeline for all the projects.
3. Connect GKE & Kubeflow
4. Effective collaboration across all the team members. ### 8. Excellent Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment SaaS Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** PRABAKARAN A 1. | Software engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** I have used Azure DevOps for more than two years but am not a fan of it, I like GitLab most. 1. GitLab runner/agent - Excellent agent; we incorporated Helm and Kubernetes continuous deployment. 2. GitLab pipelines - Support all plugins primarily through a Docker container. 3. GitLab webhook triggers your pipelines in a few seconds. 4. GitLab repository - we have put all our repositories into it. Secured and protected repository. 5. GitLab CI/CD setting, we can store all our credentials and govern them well. 6. GitLab build engines - no words, building all Docker images and pushing to GitLab registry. 7. GitLab registry - Docker registry, npm registry, Maven registry, Helm registry. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Once upon a time, it was open-source, now you need to pay for the service. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have managed our repository, pipelines, CI/CD, access control, all stakeholders to sign on deployments through GitLab. ### 9. My working experience with VCS GitLab **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** GitLab VCS provides CI/CD pipeline and it is useful for us as a developer as well as it provides a free limited plan. it also helps us to step into GitLab. beginners would help this so much. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** If GitLab provides a free plan but when it comes to production-level application needs pro level subscription. it seems the pro subscription price is somewhat high. **Recommendations to others considering GitLab:** One of the best alternatives for Github and Bitbucket. it has Devops support. Gitlab provides free plan which is easy to step into Gitlab and you can get experience. My opinion is every developer should try it. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most valuable one is as a developer we could host our source code and we can make Groups. We built a Devops environment using GitLab under the free plan. which was help us to make entry level applications. ### 10. The Absolutely Necessary Git Tool from Beginners to Professionals **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yash K. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** I have been using Gitlab for a very long time and it is extremely easy to get started with even as a beginner. Even if you do not know the exact git command to push an existing local repo to Gitlab, it gives you useful tips and sometimes even the complete code suggestions. Apart from that the fact that it lets you create private repos even in its free tier is a boon for people just starting out and cannot shell out a lot of money to maintain a private cloud Git repository. Its CI pipeline is also extremely easy to use and provides the desired automation for my projects. The issue tracking feature is also very useful since it allows customizable columns and labels making it easy to spot what an issue is about and it also allows to connect code from multiple projects to issues which is extremely useful for working with teams in a large codebase. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** There is almost nothing I do not like about Gitlab except the fact that it sometimes gets so slow that it takes ages to load. But compared to the benefits it provides, this is nothing. **Recommendations to others considering GitLab:** If you need a Git management tool, make the switch to Gitlab immediately. I switched from Github years ago and have never looked back. It will be an invaluable asset to your organization, from onboarding freshers into the version control workflow to overall code management of products of varying sizes of codebases. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main problem Gitlab solves for me is it helps me collaborate with my team which is spread all around the world on multiple with varying complexity. Its amazing the smoothness I can use the CI for deployment automation and the issue tracking feature makes life so easy for the entire team who often work in completely different time zones. ### 11. The best tool for version control **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cristofer G. | Ingeniero de software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** It integrates a powerful DevOps platform that allows organizing the work of development teams focused on objectives. It also integrates everything you need to do not require another additional platform. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** There is no feature that I dislike. However, if something had to improve, it would be the development of a mobile application to view the progress of the assigned tasks **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows you to iterate functionalities to achieve the best possible result. Financially it is profitable to have this tool, thanks to its usefulness. It's formidable ### 12. Combines the ability to develop, operate and secure software in a single application. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sushant S. | iOS Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** It is available for free and easy to configure. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Provides limited number of private repositories. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to use and manage the code, we can store the code here in our repositories. ### 13. Code management becomes easier **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prerna S. | Software Development Support Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Code versioning, revert code changes, easy collaboration with teams. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Very less documentation and support for beginners **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using traditional code versioning tools like SVN and also good team collaboration is much effective and transparent. ### 14. GitLab: Review and usage at the my point of view and experience. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jagruti P. | Senior Analyst, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** -> I like User interface which is quite intrective and eye catching -> Having more features like categraizations which is very userful to categorize your projects with diffrent techonlogies or types. -> Easy to intergrate devops tools like jenkins, CI/CD etc. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** -> Gitlab is not freely open you have some limitations in the terms of File and size of the whole project. -> Sometimes Merge Request is making causes to merge code to the master branch. **Recommendations to others considering GitLab:** It's good if you use GitLab if your project has more or I can say automated DevOps stuff so it will be time-saving activities. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** -> Storing code in the repository and deploying code using CI/CD tools. -> Creating merge requests and reviewing the code of other team members. -> Using GitLab we cab create cloud-native Applications too. ### 15. GitLab - Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** GitLab is the best version control option for private and organizations. It offers amazing features like the access control levels which some of its competitors do not have. Collaboration/sharing code is super easy! **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Setting up and using GitLab is slightly more time consuming than its competitors, the UI can definitely be improved to cater to more novice/new users. Ci/CD runners are another one of those areas, where GitLab can definitely improve **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitLab is just the perfect solution when your needs involve, custom access rights and more personalized collaboration. Maintaining code is a breeze, and its no wonder that organizations would prefer GitLab over its competitors for the unique features that only GitLab provides ### 16. Great repository tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amit Kumar D. | Laravel developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Best Git repository tool that helps us to clone the project, push and pull the code. It's the best project management tool and most importantly it provides both open and private repositories. It helps us to track the code, its hot fixes help to resolve the code immediately. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Its open version has limited features which we can't use and need to purchase its full version to use its best. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been cloning the projects from GitLab. Tracking the codes pushed by my team members and managing the repository in the most efficient way. ### 17. Awesome collaborative code tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayur K. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Gitlab is an excellent collaborative code tool. We use gitlab to manage our projects' source code. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** There is nothing I can think of to dislike. **Recommendations to others considering GitLab:** Gitlab is a good tool, I highly recommend it. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use gitlab to manage our day to day task, using gitlab branching and commit feature we collaboratively work together. ### 18. GitLab comes with plenty of handy features like an integrated project, a project website, etc. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pushparaj G. | Automation Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** We can access all the aspects of a project, view code, pull requests, and combine conflict resolution. One of the smoothest and most well-organized models manage software program merchandise on the market **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Gitlab net hooks are not very consumer-pleasant as challenging to configure. Sometimes the customizable blocks/verification/etc can emerge as cumbersome. Creating a better-centralized hub to see all modifications and tune matters again for a couple of builds that would possibly be being used. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Code advice works properly and it is pretty useful for novices Unlimited free non-public repositories for a single person is additionally very helpful. Manages roles round identities so makes it handy to provide get right of entry to primarily based on users. ### 19. The Best Static Page Hosting. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manasa S. | Open Source Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** The most practical advantages of GitLab are they are easy to use, it is also a version controlling system that is similar to GitHub, and This is easy for hosting Jekyll and other static hosting sites. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** The Disadvantage in the Gitlab is that it did not have Dynamic hosting like server side rendering that we make so many pages in the modern world which is the disadvantages in this. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Bussines problems I solved using this Gitlab-- are hosting the Company website, which won't frequently change in Jekyll, and hosting them freely in the Gitlab, which helps us in a bit of budget. ### 20. GitLab for Repository Management and CI Pipeline **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akshat M. | Associate Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Repository Management has been made easy and it has been utilized as a Continuous Pipeline. On check-in auto build process can be managed and email for success failure can be setup also. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** The tool can be made useful for Continuous Deployment also which can make it more useful. If Continuous deployment part can be added to it then it can become a single tool for managing code, integration and deployment. **Recommendations to others considering GitLab:** I would Recommend GitLab for everyone to manage their resource source code. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Source code repository management is managing the code repositories for us. On submitting the code in repositories, all CI processes get managed automatically. And Junit tested jar/war file is available for deployment. ### 21. Simple yet elegant version control system which is beginner friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** The best part about using a version control system like Gitlab is the simplicity and ease of control it offers. From an Amateur to an Expert, the platform provides highly user-friendly navigation and options to get started with Git. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** While Gitlab succeeds in doing the basic things very efficiently, it might not be sub-par to providing as many advance services as popular competitors. Gitlab, at once, may feel like a limited resource that is providing service which is centered around only one aspect of development. It does not provide further aspects and details of part of CI/CD & pipeline building. Gitlab might not prove to be ready enough for DevOps-related activities. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gitlab is our organization's go-to resource for hosting "the code" along with numerous branches for different stages of development i.e. UAT, staging, development, testing etc. The process involved from writing code in local to pushing to a branch, cherry-picking or merging to main branch and deploying to live is easily achievable. ### 22. Great set of options **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Igor I. | Product QA and Mobile product owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** GitLab has a lot of options available to developers. I especially love how they handled the CI/CD pipelines. Very easy to set up and use, good speed, pretty stable. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Lack of integration with the AWS CodePipeline is the pain point when working with GitLab. As someone who works a lot with AWS, this would be very beneficial for me. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Code versioning, testing, CI/CD, task tracking work great in GitLab. This means that I don't have to use multiple products to achieve all of these operations which saves a lot of time. ### 23. Gitlab is one of the best git companies to handle git **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wolfred M. | Full Stack Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2022 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about GitLab?** - I like the way to create new projects; it is well organized compared to the competition; in addition, the merge request option is one of the powerful and unique options that GitLab. - It's very easy to create activities for the team. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** - I would like to have a chat option that is easier to follow a thread like Github; I recommend improving this feature in the future. - Compared with the competition, there is not enough documentation about it. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** - We create several projects for multiple clients using GitLab, it is very easy to track changes across the projects and assign activities for the different developers. ### 24. Great version control software. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek J. | Jr. Full Stack Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Gitlab is a very good version control software it is very helpful in developing and maintaining the project. It store your codes safe. Also it provides best User Interface as compare to the other competitors. CICD works very well in gitlab. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Sometimes I faced slow response. Command line Interface is missing in gitlab, I found it is hard to configure CICD in the first set-up. Some free features are restricted now. **Recommendations to others considering GitLab:** Good for tracking projects. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitLab is helping me in maintaining the code base of my projects. It decreased the overall project development and testing time.With that buisness performance get increased. ### 25. Good and very easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashvin C. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** The thing which I like best about GitLab over the other version control systems is that most of the features are available in the free plan and we can create private repositories also with the free plan. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** It's really costly to upgrade to paid plans which are having the premium features which we need. It is vibrant in functionality, so sometimes it is very tricky to understand. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used to work in a start-up and we started using GitLab to solve our problem with the code merges. We check multiple version control systems but finalized GitLab over the others. ### 26. Gitlab review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prateek U. | Backend developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** I think by using gitlab it's easy to go back and forth in the code, it's easy to maintain the code, multiple developer can work on the same code at same time **What do you dislike about GitLab?** There is nothing to dislike it's easy to use **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used it in maintaining the code of my company's project I also used it in my personal project. ### 27. Best Code Repository **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shabir M. | Computer Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Gitlab is very comfortable with coding editors like visual studio, easy to push and pull code. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Sometimes while pushing the code for auto-deployment, get a lot of pipeline errors. Then again use to run that manually. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Day-to-day coding push-pull and coordination with team members. ### 28. Good & affordable platform for startups. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** When we started back with Gitlab a few years back, this was the only platform offering free private repositories for unlimited users. This was the deal-breaker for us as being a startup, we can't afford to spend too much on tools at the start of our software development. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Recently they have renamed master branch to 'main,' and this is causing little confusion among our developers who are used to working with master. But I think this is not a big issue we will adapt over time. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are automating our development and deployment workflow, and a built-in issue tracker and webhooks came in handy when integrating with our internal support software. ### 29. GitLab Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Şükrü O. | Researcher, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2021 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about GitLab?** Gitlab offers repository management and version control, as well as hosting and bug tracking for wikis. It's a complete package for building and managing projects of all types because projects beyond source code, like GitHub, are currently hosted. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** It is GitLab's prominence is primarily web-based DevOps processes. Code review and remote management features are important to us. But GitLab is not at the forefront in this respect. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to keep my codes private or open remote servers for free using Git technology. It also provides the opportunity to review other projects on the platform. ### 30. GitLab Review 2021 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Levar B. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Easy to navigate and share projects with contractors. They do not force me to use an SSH key. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Searching for a repo that my account is linked to is problematic. **Recommendations to others considering GitLab:** If you have many clients and many projects this is the best product. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to have many contributors work on my projects without worrying about who has access to what. The CI can deploy items to DEV as soon as they are committed without many configurations and add-ons. ### 31. Nice alternative to GitHub! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cody L. | SSoftware Development Engineer in Test, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** I've been using GitLab while I contribute to an open-source project. I have been enjoying the simple UI/UX and ease of use. It has a ton of features that I haven't even touched, but I look forward to diving into CI/CD in GitLab. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** A few things can be difficult to find at first, work item tags for example. Once you find them though it's not a big deal. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** General repository contributions, it's a quick and easy tool to track issues and fix them! ### 32. Use of GitLab as a Version Controlling Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Machhindra N. | Android Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Private GitLab can be hosted and we can integrate GitLab with different testing tools. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Sometimes if a user changes device and wants to access their own repo, it is very hard to configure because of the hard security of GitLab. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is the best version controlling tool. Also, we can use GitLab as a project management tool. ### 33. A good software for projects management and deployment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Gitlab is providing a platform that integrated version control platform plus project management software and a strategic solution for all problems related to deployment. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** A quite good solution to deal with few user flow and user experience issues there but not a big one to look at. They just need to be updated with market trends. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Me as a developer solving the project management issue with gitlab trying to integrate with other systems and make use of it and increasing productivity and efficiency. ### 34. GitLab Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Recently our project got migrated to GitLab due to its open source availability and new enhanced features that developers to easily maintain and review the code PR and MR. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** This needs unnecessary special access token which doesn't seem to be user friendly sometimes. Also requires personal token that unnecessarily causes developers extra task. **Recommendations to others considering GitLab:** Good to be considered for version control system. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use GitLab for maintaining our code repository and for tracking pull request and merge requests. ### 35. Decent alternative to Github **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan C. | Product Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** The learning curve for Gitlab is relatively low. If you are familiar with any git operations at all and have used Bitbucket or Github, then you will be right at home. The community version is also free, which is a massive boon to startup founders and individual developers. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Unlike bitbucket, I find that the system becomes slower as you scale. It becomes a bit laggy when you have over 200 developers working on the same repo. It could just be a limitation of the community version. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gitlab is the default code repository and version control system in our company. It's great to see all the different repositories consolidated in one platform. This makes it easier for any developers in the organization to share standard code and do peer reviews. ### 36. Best DevOps Platform. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 25, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** The best thing about gitlab is that it is an open-source community edition repository management platform. It is easy to manage repositories and push code into GitLab, and clone a repository, user permission, and branch protection are enhanced. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** It has certain bugs which should be improved,user experience should be improved.It is difficult to manage code reviews for the first timers who are using gitlab for the first time **Recommendations to others considering GitLab:** Everything is good. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using GitLab to put my project in a branch so that all team members can access the project from the central repository. If any changes are done by any member that will be visible to all members, I can easily clone the project and push the project into the repository ### 37. Works well for all your basic needs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris H. | Test Engineering Manager, Professional Training & Coaching, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Integrates with all modern dev environments well, does all the "git"-based actions **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Merge Requests (code reviews) could be a little smoother. You have to scroll through every change instead of having a more interactive view of each modification in each file. Also, setting a standard list of mandatory approvers would be nice. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralized code reviews are key. ### 38. Powerful yet simple **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nityam P. | Vice President, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Simple to use and easy to navigate. Very powerful. Solves most of the purpose **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Very tight coupling with AWS. Very difficult to configure other solutions like Akamai. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use git lab for version control, continuous integration, and deployment. ### 39. Code base management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sanghpriya( संघप्रिय) g. | Backend Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** It is a synchronized code sharing, it helps to manage the code shared by different teammates. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Its authorization process is required at all times and for all activities. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping to manage the code for different repositories and different ends. ### 40. Awesome Experience ! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harsh V. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** 1. Gitlab-Runners, Great UI & Pipeline Creation **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Should have package repository for community edition **Recommendations to others considering GitLab:** If you want local runners & great UI go for it. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Local CI/CD creation with custom runners ### 41. Easy to manage and share code **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayur T. | Lead software development Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** It's easy to manage code base, branch either for self or for company or for public **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Sometime branching part creating ambiguity for developer **Recommendations to others considering GitLab:** Yes for sure you need to use it **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can manage code/branch as per environment, as per developer and public private as per scenario. ### 42. easy to use and project managing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2022 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about GitLab?** beat version control, CI/CD, devSecOps, gitOps **What do you dislike about GitLab?** nothing that i can think of disliked.... **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** bug fixing, team managing, code managing, code review, code history ### 43. Great product. free software version control system **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pavel S. | electronics engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** free software version control system. the convenience of use. wide application **What do you dislike about GitLab?** The code viewer is not very convenient. Incorrect assembly of autoreleases **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control system, code branching. debugging. ease of project transfer between developers ### 44. Git Lab Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** GitLab is a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration **What do you dislike about GitLab?** We need maintenance all files on git of our project. If we need push our code so we need also maintains another repository viz JFrog repository **Recommendations to others considering GitLab:** It's a good platform to maintain our code on the server. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** First of all, it's a good platform to save our code on GIT. We can push and pull our updated code. There's no conflict occurred while merging our code ### 45. A Fully Featured Development Application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandon S. | President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** GitLab has it all. Across the spectrum of DevOps, from source control to issue tracking/planning to CI/CD and more. The sheer amount of functionality they offer is unmatched by any other application. Another thing that GitLab does very well is consistently adding and improve features. They release once a month on the 22nd, and I am constantly impressed by how much they accomplish in a single month. It takes me 30+ minutes to read their release notes each month which is pretty impressive. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** There isn't anything that I'm not too fond of that is the fault of GitLab directly. When it comes to third-party integrations and support, like with Jira, Visual Studio, AWS, and other development applications, GitLab isn't as widely supported as GitHub. Again, not their fault, but I do often wish it was supported as widely as GitLab. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Source code management and CI/CD. GitLab allowed us to streamline and automate our development workflow. ### 46. It's been a good experience as far as I'm concerned. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahtisham M. | D, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Being GitLab an open source project complete transparency. Best thing about GitLab is that it provides complete DevOps workflow cycle. Now I don't need to integrate multiple services to my DevOps cycle. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** My main pet peeve with GitLab is its user interface. Sometimes it's confusing to navigate and it's a lot slower. And build times seem to take more time than they should. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly GitLab provides a complete DevOps cycle. It reduces complexity. As of now, I don't think that it provides as much cost benefits as I thought, but it still fulfills its purpose well. ### 47. Excellent For Source code management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** The good part is we can edit the files directly through GitLab; we don't need a CLI to get code on local. We can make changes directly on the remote repo. Apart from that, it provides a CI/CD plugin for release management. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** The pull request merging process is a bit clumsy; it can be more straightforward. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to manage our source code, and we use the CI/CD part from this tool. ### 48. Best collaborative repository **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julio A. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google using a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** It is so easy to use, so intuitive, and you can work with your teammates reporting issues, making merge requests, and assigning tasks to each other. I really recommend using it as an enterprise. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** At the first time, you may be absorbed by all the functionalities and tools this application offers. I know you will understand anything, so breathe and read one by one to understand how to use it properly because it is so powerful. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** I worked on many projects with this application, and I made a server inventory tracker and others similar. I didn't have problems working with my teammates and collaborating to find the best solution. ### 49. Git gives us flexibility to use CICD pipeline **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prajyoti M. | Software Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2022 **What do you like best about GitLab?** Repository to store code and use easily. Connect with different applications **What do you dislike about GitLab?** Because they don’t value good interfaces. **Recommendations to others considering GitLab:** user interface improvement **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** Track code changes, commit code, linked Jira and Git for tracking data ### 50. Great way to keep track of development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dylan S. | Network Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2021 **What do you like best about GitLab?** I use this as a reporter; I look for bugs and can create an issue across any of our projects, link it to a developer and tag it with urgencies and what the improvement/issue is related to. From there, it is an easy way to keep track of communicating on a single issues thread. **What do you dislike about GitLab?** It can be hard to navigate around unless you're familiar. I'm using GitLab on the odd occasion, so moving an issue from one project to another could take a minute to figure out where the option is within the page. **What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping us track issues more efficiently and easily assign them to different team members. ## GitLab Discussions - [Is GitLab paid?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-gitlab-paid) - 5 comments, 2 upvotes - [Good source of template for CI/CD pipeline](https://www.g2.com/discussions/good-source-of-template-for-ci-cd-pipeline) - 1 comment, 2 upvotes - [Is GitLab free software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-gitlab-free-software) - 4 comments, 1 upvote - [Github or Gitlab ? 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