GitLab Customer Reviews 2026 | Application Security Testing

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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

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91 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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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

Jasmeet singh V.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2021

Store and deploy from same place

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates GitLab from other similar products?

Gitlab provides the ci CD pipeline where we can actually see our pipeline deployed, It is very interesting that it worked as a git repository plus deployment engine.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I love the ci CD integration in gitlab

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing I could think of. I felt this software is very good

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend everyone to go with gitlab if you working in fast pase deployment team.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Katie R.

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2021

We are delivering our software projects faster.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates GitLab from other similar products?

From my personal experience, Gitlab differentiates itself from other Git platforms in two distinct ways - its authentication levels and its support for continuous integration and deployment CI/CD.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Gitlabs support for continuous development and continuous integration (CI/CD) is my favorite aspect of this Git platform.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Gitlabs integration with Amazon web service, which happens to be my organizations primary cloud computing platform is always a clumsy experience. This needs to be improved upon really.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Gitlab facilitates easy collaboration in organizations ,with teams spread all over. I wouldn't recommend Gitlab for open source projects though.

Pros

Reliable
Inspires Innovation
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product

Saurabh A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2021

Nice tool for saas features

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates GitLab from other similar products?

Make our pipelines more efficient and seamless and deployment got easier than before

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Cost is very little improved but productivity has been enhanced alot

What do you dislike most about this product?

cost is little high

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Best tool to used

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy
Unique Features
Acts with Integrity

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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

Jasmeet singh V.

Store and deploy from same place

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Katie R.

We are delivering our software projects faster.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Saurabh A.

Nice tool for saas features

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

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

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