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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

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	GitLab
Focus	Native ASPM with In-house scanners	AI-powered PTaaS on top of native ASPM with In-house scanners	In-house scanners
Extras	None	None	None
Headcount	143	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Headcount distribution	Engineering 42%, IT 13%, sales 13%, marketing 2%, operations 4% and others 26%	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Headcount growth	+8%, +10%, -8%	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Headquarters	CO and US	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Countries	AR, BO, CA, CL, CO, DO, EC, MX, PA, PE and US	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Reputation	9.77 from 209 reviews over 7 years on Gartner and Clutch	Same	8.72 from 437 reviews over 9 years on PeerSpot and TrustRadius
Followers	20K based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Research Firms	None	None	Forrester
Founded	2001	Same	2017
Funding	Bootstrapped	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Acquisitions	None	None	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Revenue	10M to 15M	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
CVE	276 CVEs reported to MITRE , ranked in the top 10 CVE labs worldwide	Same	1,007 CVEs reported to MITRE by GitLab
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3	Same	None
Bug bounty	Yes	Yes	Yes
Visits	21K per month. Top 3: 26% CO, 8% FR, 7% US. Others 59%	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Authority	32 out of 100	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Vulnerability database	Discovered and third-party	Same	GitLab - Third-party
Content	Blog, documentation, e-books, reports, success stories, videos, webinars and white papers	Same	Articles, blog, conferences, documentation, guides, success stories, videos, webcast, webinars and workshops
Knowledge base	13 KB sections, 6 in common and 7 additional	Same	8 KB sections, 6 in common and 2 additional
Community	Forum	Same	Chat (Discord) and Forum by GitLab
Sync training	1 workshop	Same	No
Async training	3 product use courses, all free	Same	5 product use courses by GitLab with certification (subscription-based)
Distribution	Direct or with any of its 14 partners	Same	Direct or with any of its 377 partners
Marketplaces	AWS	Same	AWS and GCP
Freemium	No	No	Yes (Application Security Testing not included)
Free trial	21-day free trial	PoV	30-day free trial and PoV
Demo	Yes	Yes	Yes
Open Demo	No	No	No
Pricing	Contact sales, marketplace and public web	Contact sales and public web	Contact sales, marketplaces and public web
Pricing tiers	1 plan	1 plan	1 plan
Minimum term	Monthly	Monthly	Annually
Minimum payment period	Monthly	Monthly	Monthly
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
Minimum scope	1 author	Same	1 user
Pricing drivers	Authors	Same	Users
Minimum monthly payment	143 USD	592 USD	No information available

Service

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	GitLab
PTaaS	No	Yes	No
Reverse engineering	No	Yes	No
Secure code review	No	Yes	No
Pivoting	No	Yes	No
Exploitation	No	Yes	No
Manual reattacks	Not applicable	Unlimited reattacks	Not applicable
Zero-day vulnerabilities	None	Continuous zero-day vulnerability research	None
SLA	Availability	Accuracy, availability and response	Response
Min availability	>=99.95% per minute LTM	Same	None
After-sale guarantees	No	Yes	Yes
Accreditations	CNA and Penetration Testing by CREST	Same	Amazon Linux Ready Product, AWS Graviton Ready Product, CNA, DevOps ISV Competency (as GitLab)
Hacker certifications	Not applicable	202 from 59 different types	Not applicable
Type of contract	Employee	Same	Employee
Endpoint control	Not applicable	Total	Not applicable
Channel control	Not applicable	Total	Not applicable
Standards	Some requirements from 67 standards	All requirements from the same standards	31 standards, 15 in common and 16 additional
Detection method	Automated tools	Automated tools, AI and human intelligence	Automated tools
Remediation	5, 4 in common and 1 additional	Same, plus 1	5, 4 in common and 1 additional
Outputs	5, 4 in common and 1 additional	Same, plus 2	6, 4 in common and 2 additional

Product

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	GitLab
ASPM	Yes	Yes	No
API	GraphQL with JSON	Same	REST and GraphQL with JSON
IDE	5 functionalities, 3 in common and 1 additional	Same, plus 1 functionality	3 functionalities all in common
CLI	Yes	Yes	Yes
CI/CD	Breaks the build	Same	Breaks the build
Vulnerability sources	4 sources, 1 in common and 3 additional	Same	2 sources, 1 in common and 1 additional
Threat model alignment	Yes	Yes	No
Priority criteria	CVSS v4.0, CVSSF, EPSS and KEV	Same	CVSS, EPSS and KEV
Custom prioritization	Priority score	Same	Risk score
Scanner origin	In-house	In-house	In-house and External (Gemnasium for SCA, KICKS for IaC, Semgrep for SAST and Trivy for Containers)
SCA	23 package managers, 15 in common and 8 additional	Same	16 package managers, 15 in common and 1 additional
AI security	No	Yes	No
Reachability	12 languages, 4 in common and 8 additional	Same	4 languages, all in common
Reachability type	Deterministic	Same	Deterministic
SBOM	22 package managers, 13 in common and 9 additional	Same	16 package managers, 13 in common and 3 additional
Malware detection	Yes	Yes	Yes
Autofix on components	No	No	Yes
Containers	4 distributions, 3 in common and 1 additional	Same	13 distributions, 3 in common and 10 additional
Source SAST (languages)	12, 11 in common and 1 additional	Same	17, 11 in common and 6 additional
Source SAST (frameworks)	22, 3 in common and 19 additional	Same	4, 3 in common and 1 additional
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
Binary SAST	1 type of binary	Same, plus 2 types of binaries	No
DAST	7 attack surface types	Same	9 attack surface types, 6 in common and 3 additional
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	Yes	No
ASM	No	No	No
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
AI	3 functions, all in common	Same	4 functions, 3 in common and 1 additional
MCP	Yes	Yes	Yes
Open source	MPL-2.0 license. Totally equivalent to the paid version	Not applicable	MIT. Partially equivalent to the paid version
Deployment	SaaS	Same	SaaS and on-premises
Regions	US	Same	US
Status	Yes	Yes	Yes
Incidents	4 per year	Same	11.5 per year

Integrations

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	GitLab
SCM	6, 1 in common and 5 additional	Same	1 in common
Binary repositories	None	None	None
Ticketing	3, 2 in common and 1 additional	Same	9, 2 in common and 7 additional
ChatOps	None	None	3
IDE	3, 2 in common and 1 additional	Same	15, 2 in common and 13 additional
CI/CD	21, 4 in common and 17 additional	Same	4, all in common
SCA	Native	Same	Native powered by Gemnasium and 8 integrations
Container	Native	Same	Native powered by Trivy and 3 integrations
SAST	Native	Same	Native powered by Semgrep and 5 integrations
DAST	Native	Same	Native and 3 integrations
IAST	None	None	None
Cloud	3	Same	None
CSPM	Native	Same	1
Secrets	Native	Same	Native and 1 integration
Remediation	None	None	None
Bug bounty	None	None	1
Vulnerability management	None	None	None
Compliance	None	None	1

References were last checked on Nov 21, 2025.

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