GitLab 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

GitLab

4.6

(1211)

Pricing

Starting at $29.00 per month

About GitLab

GitLab is a cloud-based project management platform that allows software developers to develop and manage codes collaboratively. The platform can be deployed either on-premise or in the cloud.

GitLab helps developers manage the complete code lifecycle, from the inception of an idea to the deployment of code on production. Primary features of GitLab are Git repository management, code review, issue tracking, activity feeds and audit logs. The software is offered in four different editions: Community Edition, Enterprise Edition, GitLab.com and GitLab.io.

Users can upload codes in the repository. GitLab also provides a repository mirroring feature that allows users to access a repository located on a different server with the help of the GitLab interface.The code review feature allows users to evaluate code line-by-line and provide comments. The software additionally provides continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to test, build and deploy codes.The enterprise edition of the software offers automated testing, Git hooks, audit trails and administrator features.

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GitLab Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $29.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Free

$0.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

10gb Transfer Per Month
400 CI/CD Minutes Per Month [1]
5gb Storage
5 Users Per Namespace
Includes Free Static Websites
Open Source - MIT License
Spans the Devops Lifecycle

Premium

$29.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

10000 CI/CD Minutes Per Month
10gb Transfer Per Month
400 CI/CD Minutes Per Month [1]
5gb Storage
5 Users Per Namespace
Advanced CI/CD
Enterprise Agile Planning
Faster Code Reviews
Includes Free Static Websites
Open Source - MIT License

Ultimate

$99.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

10000 CI/CD Minutes Per Month
50000 CI/CD Minutes Per Month
Advanced CI/CD
Advanced Security Testing
Compliance
Enterprise Agile Planning
Faster Code Reviews
Free Guest Users
Portfolio Management
Release Controls

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GitLab Features

Features of GitLab
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Application Security
Approval Process Control
Approval Workflow
Assignment Management
Audit Trail
Authentication
Automated Testing
Bug Tracking
Change Management
Code Editing
Code Repository Integration
Code Review
Collaboration Tools
Compliance Management
Configurable Workflow
Configuration Management
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Deployment
Continuous Integration
Customizable Templates
Database Support
Data Security
Deadline Management
Debugging
Deployment Management
Drag & Drop
Email Management
For Developers
For Small Businesses
Graphical User Interface
Incident Management
Integrated Development Environment
Issue Management
Issue Tracking
IT Asset Management
IT Reporting
Kanban Board
KPI Monitoring
Lifecycle Management
Milestone Tracking
Monitoring
Multi-Language Scanning
Multiple Projects
Performance Metrics
Portfolio Management
Problem Management
Projections
Project Management
Project Planning
Project Templates
Project Time Tracking
Project Tracking
Quality Assurance
Real-Time Analytics
Release Management
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting/Project Tracking
Repository Management
Resource Management
Rules-Based Workflow
Search/Filter
Security Testing
Software Development
Source-Code Scanning
Source Control
Task Management
Template Management
Testing Management
Third-Party Integrations
To-Do List
Version Control
Vulnerability Scanning
Web-based Deployment
Wiki
Workflow Management

GitLab Integrations

Jira

Integration rated 4.6 from 64 reviews

Slack

Integration rated 4.7 from 32 reviews

Jenkins

Integration rated 4.7 from 31 reviews

GitHub

Integration rated 4.4 from 16 reviews

OpenText Application Security Aviator

Veracode

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GitLab User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

65%

32%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.6

Manish Bhandari V.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2026

Review of Gitlab for developers from a AI developer

Overall: My recent experience with GitLab has been very positive, especially with the introduction of AI‑native workflows through GitLab Duo, which makes coding, reviewing, and refactoring faster and more convenient directly within the interface. The integrated DevSecOps capabilities—covering CI/CD, security scanning, and project management—create a cohesive environment that streamlines collaboration and helps teams move from idea to deployment efficiently. At the same time, the platform’s breadth can feel complex at first, and the UI may appear dense in some workflows, particularly for smaller teams or those new to GitLab. Additionally, advanced tiers and AI add‑ons can become costly at scale, and very large installations can still encounter occasional performance or merge‑conflict friction. Overall, though, GitLab effectively empowers teams to build, secure, and ship software in one place, allowing developers to focus more on delivery and innovation rather than juggling multiple disconnected tools.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I really like how GitLab now combines AI‑powered workflows through GitLab Duo—like code suggestions, inline chat, test generation, and refactoring—directly in the UI and IDE, while also offering a full DevSecOps platform with built‑in CI/CD, security scanning, project tracking, a modern panel‑based interface that keeps issues, merge requests, and Duo side‑by‑side, plus strong self‑hosting and GitOps support for enterprises that want fine‑grained control and security.

Cons:

What I like least about GitLab now is that its broad feature set—spanning CI/CD, security, project management, and AI—can feel overwhelming and complex, especially for smaller teams, and the UI still comes across as dense or cluttered for some workflows despite the panel‑based redesign, while advanced tiers and add‑ons like Duo Enterprise can get expensive at scale and larger setups sometimes run into performance hiccups or merge‑conflict friction.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

Best git provider for most commercial use cases

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Multiple edition that can fit your project/company needs (e.g. free SaaS edition, self-hosted community edition, Enterprise). Great developer ergonomics, with plenty of customisations that fulfill all complex development/enterprise requirements.

Cons:

Not as good for community features (e.g. public open-source projects, developer profile) compared to Github, which also gets a bit more publicity.

Reasons for choosing GitLab

Has the right mix of features and investor ergonomics, while priced reasonably. Also very flexible with community edition deployments.

Reasons for switching to GitLab

Switched to Gitlab for internal projects, as well as publishing some open source projects from our internal repos. We use a mix of self-hosted Gitlab Community Edition, and the enterprise edition for client facing / core workflows.

Ben G.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Good product, average support

Previously 4

We still use GitLab to this date and have nothing to fault, as long as nothing goes wrong during this time.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Previously 5

Value for money

Previously 3

Customer support

Previously 4

Functionality

Pros:

Having still used GitLab for over a few years now, we have found it to still be very useful for our development and storage purposes. The price is a little more acceptable now that competitors have also increased their price.

Cons:

The support we needed for some bugs with incorrectly notified false-positives and other issues were not quickly resolved and left our development team twiddling their fingers.

Mudit M.

Verified reviewer

Banking

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2025

Good cicd tool ,free and open source

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is free to use and fast in operation. Offers integration with multiple vendors and Is easier to setup.

Cons:

Setting up the pipeline is a bit tedious task. The concept of gitlab runners and improving the performance is bit long

Ghanshyam S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2025

Open source source code management tool

I had been using GitLab for more than two years now, it seems to a great, but sometimes it become quite laggy.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is open source, and you can deploy it on your own server.

Cons:

Set up his complex compared to GitHub, the documentation can be more better.

Reasons for switching to GitLab

Because it is open source and was able to deploy it on my Linux machine

Charles C.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2025

GitLab is perfect for company code and can even be hosted locally

They continue to innovate and I'm happy with the company. I'm glad they are competing with GitHub so we have more than one good solution.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like that GitLab is not as large as Microsoft who recently acquired GitHub. They also from the beginning were focused more on the private git code for companies.

Cons:

Since they focus on the company more than the open source it means that more open source is hosted on GitHub and that means I need to know two platforms since we use OSS as well.

Reasons for choosing GitLab

GitLab offered for free the things that I needed as a company for a private code base.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2025

Amazing amazing amazing

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I love gitlab, it has a lot of features and even for private and personal projects it is completely free, amazing!

Cons:

Nothing, really! It's amazing. Maybe, the only thing I would like to see, is improvements in the CI like having a marketplace for actions.

Reasons for switching to GitLab

GitLab offers private repositories and other features that weren't available on their competitors

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Umut Ö.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2024

Great features, but a bit cluttered

Overall, Gitlab is solid for managing projects. CI/CD is great, but the interface could use some simplification. It works well once you get used to it

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like the all in one setup Gitlab offers, CI/CD, issue tracking are built in, which makes project managing easier

Cons:

The interface feels cluttered at times, and some features are hard to find. Its not always as intuitive as Id like

Reasons for switching to GitLab

Community Edition, and built-in features that may or may not cost extra on Github

Sara S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

Everyday assistment work

I work with gitlab every day and I can say that it is necessary for my work. It is convenient to be able to review files and progress of tasks, as well as monitor the team's activity and stay updated

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ability to use task management and update myself with colleagues

Cons:

Merge request handling in relation to assignment

Reasons for switching to GitLab

allows for better work management also in relation to code development

Mike G.

Verified reviewer

Banking

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2024

Gitlab covers all your bases

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Gitlab is a one stop shop for all of your sdlc life cycle from project planning to scm, ci/cd, security, documentation it has a fully pipeline curated for most use cases.

Cons:

The restricted options for privileges are a small bind it would be more useful if you could design custom roles with privileges that suit your organisation.

Reasons for switching to GitLab

Modern scm adoption for faster global collaboration

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