GitLab vs. Microsoft Visual Studio

GitLab

400 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Visual Studio

805 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Visual Studio	Score9.1 out of 10	N/A	Visual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.	$45 per month

Pricing

GitLab

Visual Studio

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

Professional: $45.00
per month
Enterprise: $250.00
per month

Pricing Offerings
GitLab	Visual Studio
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	GitLab	Visual Studio
Considered Both Products	GitLab Verified User Chose GitLab Because with Visual Studio code, it was very easy for us to install GitLab in it and have easy access through the terminal and due to GitLab, it was easy to implement codes regarding API and AWS services to make our software better. Gitlens and all features help to check the … Incentivized Helpful? Meet Dhruv Cloud Engineer in Information Technology at V2 solutions (Computer Networking, 1001-5000 employees) Chose GitLab GitLab has a open-source community and great documentation that provides support resources and community contributions. AWS CodeCommit is used for integration with other AWS services in the AWS ecosystem and also have a low community and support compared to GitLab hence … 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? Verified User Chose GitLab Git has a Distributed Model. SVN has a Centralized Model. In git every user has their own copy of code on their local like their own branch. In SVN there is central repository has working copy that also make changes and committed in central repository Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitLab GitLab has all the necessary features that are required as part of modern software development life cycle. GitLab offers better pricing as compared to its competitors. GitLab is open-source as well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitLab GitLab is widely used throughout the developer community and provides all the required features industry wide. Many of the paid features help the team a lot to achieve efficient source code management. Many features like vulnerability management and AI chat while code review in … Incentivized Helpful? Fedor Tyurin CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Engineering at Enable Banking (Financial Services, 11-50 employees) Chose GitLab Why we chose GitLab: we started long ago with free access and it was always good enough, so we never bothered to switch. Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft No answer on this topic
	Would buy again
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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
	GitLab	Visual Studio
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (142 ratings)	9.0 (105 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.9 (4 ratings)	10.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (5 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (11 ratings)	8.8 (15 ratings)