Alternatives to GitLab
Who this is for
If you're comparing GitLab with other companies in DevOps & Platform Engineering and Developer Tools, start here. These are the 36 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
The score is worked out the same way as “Most active” in the company directory; how we rank sets out the maths. Vendors can't pay to move up. Back to the GitLab profile.
DevOps & Platform Engineering: GitLab's main category
19 companies sit alongside GitLab here, busiest first.
- Harness#5 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
Harness is a US software delivery platform company offering AI-assisted continuous integration, continuous delivery and GitOps, feature management, cloud cost management, security…
- 42 stories in the last 90 days
- CloudBees#8 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
CloudBees is a US software delivery company founded in 2010. It sells enterprise CI/CD and DevSecOps products built around Jenkins, including CloudBees CI and CloudBees Unify…
- 46 stories in the last 90 days
- Port#16 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
Port is a software company that makes an internal developer portal for platform engineering teams. Its product combines a software catalogue, self-service actions, scorecards and…
- 40 stories in the last 90 days
- GitHub#2 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
GitHub is a software development platform for hosting Git repositories and collaborating on code, used by developers, open source projects and enterprises. Its products include…
- 27 stories in the last 90 days
Also in Developer Tools
- Pulumi#10 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
Pulumi is an infrastructure-as-code company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2017 by Joe Duffy and Eric Rudder. Its open-source Pulumi IaC tool lets engineers…
- 28 stories in the last 90 days
- LaunchDarkly#12 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
LaunchDarkly is a feature management and experimentation platform that lets software teams release features behind feature flags, roll out changes progressively, run experiments…
- 27 stories in the last 90 days
- Sonatype#20 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
Sonatype is a US software supply chain security company founded in 2008 and based in Fulton, Maryland. It develops Nexus Repository, a widely used artifact repository manager, and…
- 17 stories in the last 90 days
- HashiCorp#7 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
HashiCorp is a US infrastructure software company known for Terraform for infrastructure as code and Vault for secrets management, alongside Consul, Nomad, Packer, Vagrant and…
- 18 stories in the last 90 days
- Spacelift#13 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
Spacelift is an infrastructure-as-code orchestration platform used by platform engineering and DevOps teams to automate, govern and audit infrastructure workflows. It supports…
- 14 stories in the last 90 days
- CircleCI#6 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
CircleCI is a US continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) company founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco. Its cloud and self-hosted server platform automates…
- 12 stories in the last 90 days
- JFrog#4 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
JFrog is a software supply chain company whose JFrog Platform manages and secures software packages and binaries from development to production. Its products include JFrog…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Atlassian#3 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
Atlassian is a software company founded in Sydney, Australia, in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. It sells team collaboration and software development tools…
Evidence is still building for Atlassian.
Also in Developer Tools
- Buildkite#11 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
Buildkite is a software delivery platform company founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 2013. Its hybrid CI/CD platform runs pipelines on agents hosted in customers' own…
Evidence is still building for Buildkite.
- Cortex#17 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
Cortex is an internal developer portal company founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco. Its platform catalogues an organisation's services, owners and dependencies, and uses…
Evidence is still building for Cortex.
- env zero#14 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
env zero, formerly env0, is an infrastructure-as-code automation, governance and cloud asset management platform for platform engineering and DevOps teams. It manages Terraform…
Evidence is still building for env zero.
- Humanitec#15 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
Humanitec is a Berlin-based platform engineering company that provides the Humanitec Platform Orchestrator, a backend for building internal developer platforms that standardises…
- 2 stories in the last 90 days
- Octopus Deploy#9 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
Octopus Deploy is an Australian software company that makes a continuous delivery and release management platform for automating deployments and runbooks across on-premises, cloud…
Evidence is still building for Octopus Deploy.
- Perforce#18 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
Perforce is a DevOps software company offering version control, infrastructure automation, testing, static analysis and test data management tools. Its portfolio includes P4…
- 1 story in the last 90 days
- Progress Software#19 leader in DevOps & Platform EngineeringCompare with GitLab
Progress Software is a US software company headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, founded in 1981. It sells infrastructure and application development software including the…
Evidence is still building for Progress Software.
Developer Tools
17 companies sit alongside GitLab here, busiest first. 2 others are listed in an earlier section.
- Vercel#7 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
Vercel is a US cloud platform company founded in 2015 by Guillermo Rauch, originally as ZEIT, and based in San Francisco. It provides a frontend cloud for building, deploying and…
- 93 stories in the last 90 days
- Cloudflare#20 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
Cloudflare is a US connectivity cloud company founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco. It operates a global network providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, web application…
- 85 stories in the last 90 days
- JetBrains#3 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
JetBrains is a software company that makes integrated development environments and developer tools, including IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, GoLand and CLion, the…
- 56 stories in the last 90 days
- Twilio#16 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
Twilio is a US customer engagement platform and communications API company founded in 2008 in San Francisco. Developers use its APIs to add SMS, voice, WhatsApp and other…
- 51 stories in the last 90 days
- Netlify#8 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
Netlify is a cloud platform for building, deploying and hosting web applications and websites. It provides Git-based continuous deployment, a global edge network, serverless and…
- 41 stories in the last 90 days
- Kong#17 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
Kong is an API management and connectivity company known for Kong Gateway, an open-source API gateway, and Kong Konnect, its cloud-hosted API platform. It also develops Kong Mesh…
- 26 stories in the last 90 days
- Microsoft#2 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
- Postman#6 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
Postman is an API platform company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its flagship Postman application lets developers design, test, document, mock and monitor APIs, and…
- 25 stories in the last 90 days
- Supabase#15 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
Supabase is an open source backend development platform founded in 2020 by Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson. Built around a dedicated PostgreSQL database per project, it adds…
- 22 stories in the last 90 days
- Docker#14 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
Docker, Inc. is the company behind Docker, the software that popularised Linux containers for packaging and running applications. Founded as dotCloud by Solomon Hykes and launched…
- 15 stories in the last 90 days
- Snyk#12 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
Snyk is a developer security company founded in 2015 in London and Tel Aviv and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Its AI Trust platform helps developers and security teams…
- 27 stories in the last 90 days
- Sentry#13 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
Sentry is an application monitoring company headquartered in San Francisco, California, operated by Functional Software, Inc. Its developer-first platform provides error tracking…
- 17 stories in the last 90 days
- SmartBear#18 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
SmartBear is a US software quality and API tooling company headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. Its portfolio includes Swagger and SwaggerHub for API design, ReadyAPI and…
- 24 stories in the last 90 days
- Replit#10 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
Replit is a US software company that provides a browser-based development environment and AI app-building platform. Founded in 2016 by Amjad Masad, Faris Masad and Haya Odeh…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Sourcegraph#11 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
Sourcegraph is a US developer tools company founded in 2013 by Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu and based in San Francisco. It builds a code search and code intelligence platform that…
- 6 stories in the last 90 days
- Cursor#9 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
Cursor is an AI-powered code editor developed by Anysphere, a San Francisco company founded in 2022 by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger. Built as a…
Evidence is still building for Cursor.
- Tricentis#19 leader in Developer ToolsCompare with GitLab
Tricentis is a software testing and quality engineering company founded in 2007 in Vienna, Austria, and headquartered in Austin, Texas. Its AI-powered platform covers test…
Evidence is still building for Tricentis.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with GitLab. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with GitLab's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
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