GitLab Ultimate
How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to GitLab Ultimate's? The following comparison table enables you to
discern the performance of both providers across various attributes essential for meeting your company’s
cybersecurity needs. To better understand each attribute, read their
descriptions in the dedicated page.
This comparison focuses exclusively on the product
itself, even though it belongs to a larger parent company. All information collected is based on the
product's technical, functional, and theoretical capabilities, not on attributes of the parent company.
Organization
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Attribute
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Essential
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Advanced
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GitLab
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Focus
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In-house scanners
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Extras
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None
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None
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None
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Headcount
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Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | ||
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Headcount distribution
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Engineering 42%, IT 13%, sales 13%,
marketing 2%, operations 4% and others 26%
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | |
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Headcount growth
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+8%, +10%, -8%
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | |
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Headquarters
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CO
and US
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Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | |
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Countries
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AR,
BO, CA, CL, CO, DO, MX, PA, PE and
US
|
Indeterminable (no information for this
product alone)
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Reputation
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Same
|
8.72 from 437 reviews over 9 years on
PeerSpot and TrustRadius
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Followers
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Same
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Indeterminable (no information for this
product alone)
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|
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Research firms
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None
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None
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Forrester
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Founded
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2001 |
2017
|
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Funding
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Bootstrapped
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Same
|
Indeterminable (no information for this
product alone)
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Acquisitions
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None
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None
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Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) |
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Revenue
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10M to 15M
|
Indeterminable (no information for this
product alone)
|
|
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CVEs as CNA Researcher
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1,007 CVEs reported to MITRE by GitLab
|
||
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Compliance
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SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3
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None
|
|
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Bug bounty
|
Yes
|
||
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Visits
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21K
per month. Top 3: 26% CO, 8% FR, 7% US. Others 59%
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | |
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Authority
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | ||
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Public vulnerability DB
|
Discovered and third-party
|
GitLab - Third-party
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|
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Content
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Same
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Articles, blog, conferences,
documentation, guides, success stories, videos, webcast, webinars and workshops
|
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| Comprehensive documentation |
13 documentation sections, 6 in common
and 7 additional
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8 documentation sections, 6 in common
and 2 additional
|
|
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Community
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Chat (Discord) and Forum by GitLab
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||
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Sync training
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1 workshop
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No
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Async training
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3 product use
courses, all free
|
5 product use courses by GitLab with
certification (subscription-based)
|
|
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Distribution
|
Same
|
Direct or with any of its 377 partners
|
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| Marketplaces | AWS and GCP | ||
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Freemium
|
No
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No
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Yes (Application Security Testing not
included)
|
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Free trial
|
30-day free trial and PoV
|
||
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Demo
|
Yes
|
||
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Open demo
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
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Pricing
|
Contact sales, marketplaces and public
web
|
||
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Pricing tiers
|
1 plan
|
1 plan
|
1 plan
|
|
Minimum term
|
Annually
|
||
|
Minimum payment period
|
Monthly
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||
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Minimum capabilities
|
ASPM, binary SAST,
containers, CSPM, DAST, IaC, SAST, SCA and
secrets
|
Same plus: API
security testing, PTaaS, RE and SCR
|
API security testing, containers, DAST,
IaC, SAST and secrets
|
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Minimum scope
|
1 author
|
1 user
|
|
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Pricing drivers
|
Users | ||
|
Minimum monthly payment
|
No information available | ||
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Free implementation
|
No
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||
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Free support
|
No
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Service
|
Attribute
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Essential
|
Advanced
|
GitLab
|
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PTaaS
|
No
|
No
|
|
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Reverse engineering
|
No
|
No | |
|
Secure code review
|
No
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No
|
|
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Pivoting
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No
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No
|
|
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Exploitation
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No
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No
|
|
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Manual reattacks
|
Not applicable
|
Not applicable
|
|
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Zero-day
vulnerabilities
|
None
|
Continuous zero-day vulnerability research
|
None
|
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SLA
|
Response | ||
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Minimum availability
|
>=99.95% per minute LTM
|
None
|
|
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After-sale guarantees
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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Accreditations
|
Amazon Linux Ready Product, AWS
Graviton Ready Product, CNA, DevOps ISV Competency (as GitLab)
|
||
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Hacker certifications
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Not applicable
|
Not applicable
|
|
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Type of contract
|
Employee
|
Same
|
Employee
|
|
Endpoint control
|
Not applicable
|
Total
|
Not applicable
|
|
Channel control
|
Not applicable
|
Total
|
Not applicable
|
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Standards
|
Some requirements from 67 standards, 15 in common and 52
additional
|
All requirements from the same standards
|
31 standards, 15 in common and 16
additional
|
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Detection method
|
Automated tools, AI and human intelligence
|
Automated tools
|
|
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Remediation
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5, 4 in common and 1 additional
|
Same, plus 1
|
5, 4 in common and 1 additional
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Outputs
|
5, 4 in common and 1
additional
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Same, plus 2
|
6, 4 in common and 2 additional
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Product
|
Attribute
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Essential |
Advanced
|
GitLab
|
|
ASPM
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No
|
||
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API
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REST and GraphQL with JSON
|
||
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IDE
|
5 functionalities, 3 in common and 1
additional
|
Same, plus 1 functionality
|
3 functionalities all in common
|
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CLI
|
Yes
|
||
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CI/CD
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Breaks the build
|
||
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Vulnerability sources
|
4 sources, 1 in common and 3 additional
|
2 sources, 1 in common and 1 additional
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|
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Threat model alignment
|
No
|
||
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Priority criteria
|
CVSS, EPSS and KEV
|
||
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Custom prioritization
|
Risk score
|
||
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Scanner origin
|
In-house and External (Gemnasium for
SCA, KICKS for IaC, Semgrep for SAST and Trivy for Containers)
|
||
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SCA
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23 package managers, 15 in common and 8
additional
|
16 package managers, 15 in common and 1
additional
|
|
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AI security
|
No
|
No | |
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Reachability
|
12 languages, 4 in common and 8
additional
|
4 languages, all in common
|
|
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Reachability type
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Deterministic
|
||
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SBOM
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22 package managers, 13 in common and 9
additional
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16 package managers, 13 in common and 3
additional
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Malware detection
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
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Autofix on components
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No
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No
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Yes
|
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Containers
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4 distributions, 3 in common and 1
additional
|
13 distributions, 3 in common and 10
additional
|
|
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Source SAST
(languages)
|
12, 11 in common and 1 additional
|
17, 11 in common and 6 additional
|
|
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Source SAST
(frameworks)
|
22, 3 in common and 19 additional
|
4, 3 in common and 1 additional
|
|
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Custom rules
|
No
|
No
|
Secrets
|
|
IaC
|
6, 4 in common and 2 additional
|
4, 2 in common and 2 additional
|
7, 6 in common and 1 additional
|
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Binary SAST
|
1 type of binary
|
Same, plus 2 types of binaries
|
No
|
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DAST
|
7 attack surface types, 6 in common and
1 additional
|
9 attack surface types, 6 in common
and 3 additional
|
|
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API security testing
|
No
|
4 types of APIs, all in common
|
6 types of APIs, 4 in common and 2
additional
|
|
IAST
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
CSPM
|
Yes |
No
|
|
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ASM
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
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Secrets
|
15 secrets types, 7 in common and 8
additional
|
Same, plus verify other attack vectors
and secrets exploitability
|
135 secrets types, 7 in common and 128
additional
|
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AI
|
3 functions, all in common
|
4 functions, 3 in common and 1
additional
|
|
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MCP
|
Yes
|
||
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Open-source
|
Not applicable
|
MIT. Partially equivalent to the paid
version
|
|
|
Provisioning as code
|
No
|
||
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Deployment
|
SaaS + on-premises (no tenancy
information)
|
||
| Regions |
US
|
||
|
Status
|
Yes
|
||
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Incidents
|
11.5 per year
|
Integrations
|
Attribute
|
Essential
|
Advanced
|
GitLab
|
|
SCM
|
6, 1 in common and 5 additional
|
1 in common
|
|
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Binary repositories
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
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Ticketing
|
3, 2 in common and 1 additional
|
9, 2 in common and 7 additional
|
|
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ChatOps
|
None |
None
|
3 |
|
IDE
|
3, 2 in common and 1 additional
|
15, 2 in common and 13 additional
|
|
|
CI/CD
|
21, 4 in common and 17 additional
|
4, all in common
|
|
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SCA
|
Native powered by Gemnasium and 8 integrations
|
||
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Container
|
Native powered by Trivy and 3 integrations | ||
|
SAST
|
Native powered by Semgrep and 5
integrations
|
||
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DAST
|
Native and 3 integrations
|
||
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IAST
|
None |
None
|
None
|
|
Cloud
|
None
|
||
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CSPM
|
1 | ||
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Secrets
|
Native and 1 integration
|
||
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Remediation
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
Bug bounty
|
None
|
None
|
1
|
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Vulnerability management
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
Compliance
|
None
|
None
|
1
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The latest update to this comparison was on Dec 15, 2025. The primary sources of information
were about.gitlab.com and docs.gitlab.com, which were supplemented by specialized
information-gathering sites, social media, and other sources.
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