Bitbucket Server (discontinued) vs. GitLab

Bitbucket Server (discontinued)

29 Reviews and Ratings

GitLab

400 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Bitbucket Server (discontinued)	Score6 out of 10	N/A	Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) from Atlassian was a self-hosted source code management solution. The product is no longer available for sale, and support for existing licenses ended in 2024.	N/A
GitLab	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	GitLab DevSecOps platform enables software innovation by aiming to empower 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 teams across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, from developing, securing, and deploying software. Differentiators, as described by Gitlab: Simplicity: With GitLab, DevSecOps can…	$0 per month per user

Pricing

Bitbucket Server (discontinued)

GitLab

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GitLab Essential: $0
per month per user
GitLab Premium: $29
per month per user
GitLab Ultimate: $99
per month per user

Pricing Offerings
Bitbucket Server (discontinued)	GitLab
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Bitbucket Server (discontinued)	GitLab
Considered Both Products	Discontinued Products Oscar Narváez Del Rio Tools and Analytic Monitoring Leader in Information Technology at Entel (Telecommunications, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Bitbucket Server (discontinued) Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash), as part of Atlassian products, provides a native integration framework and tools for automation. The platform supports git and mercurial repositories and provides features to export and import repositories from other projects. Migration to the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bitbucket Server (discontinued) Stash was selected before I was at the company, but we're looking at these alternatives and actively considering switching. Stash seems to have all the necessary features we need to make it work, but it doesn't have any bells and whistles or extra special features that we can … Incentivized Helpful?	GitLab Verified User Chose GitLab Even though all three tools are also useful for their own merit, we found GitLab to be the best supported and most customizable for our needs. It is useful to know that the product today is what we need it to be and the community is there to keep it updated if we need more … Incentivized Helpful? Juan Orlando Cartagena Duran DevOps Engineer in Engineering at Open LMS (E-Learning, 51-200 employees) Chose GitLab It was a management decision to use GitLab over other tools. It integrates well with RBAC using Terraform. Runners are easy to setup. Almost all the features the organization used before are available in GitLab. Incentivized Helpful? Dan Soble VP Engineering in Engineering at Veeva Systems (Information Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose GitLab Gitlab provided on par functionality and it provided a good option for us to self host which is very important for our business. We think the business continuity story is more solid with Gitlab. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitLab Gitlab's pipeline solution is by far the best when compared to Bitbucket and GitHub. GitHub's "actions" being relatively new. Gitlab is by far superior in overall reliability, extensibility, and functionality when compared to Bitbucket and run's relatively even with GitHub. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Bitbucket Server (discontinued)	GitLab
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (11 ratings)	8.9 (142 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	9.9 (4 ratings)
Usability	5.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (2 ratings)	9.1 (11 ratings)