GitLab alternatives
At a 10-developer team, GitLab costs $290 a month. 2 code hosting & CI tools cost less, from $40 (GitHub). The closest match, GitHub, covers 82% of what GitLab does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.
What GitLab does
Core: Team admin and analytics, Open source or self-hosted, Private Git repositories, Pull request code review, Hosted CI pipelines, Code security scanning, Self-managed edition, Self-hosting & open source.
Important: Agentic coding tool, Inline code completion (partly), VS Code and JetBrains extensions, Background cloud agents, AI pull request review, Privacy and compliance, Self-hosted runners, Package & container registry, Deployment management, Merge queue & PR workflow, Issues & planning, SSO, audit & compliance (partly), Static code analysis (partly), Dependency vulnerability scanning (partly), Secret detection (partly), Container & IaC scanning, Automated fixes (partly), Code coverage reporting (partly), Engineering metrics & DORA, Compliance & audit reporting (partly).
Also has: Codebase indexing (partly), AI-native code editor (partly), Terminal agent (CLI) (partly), Web and mobile access (partly), Slack and issue triggers (partly), Multi-lab model choice (partly), Bring your own API key (partly), MCP tool connections (partly), Rules, commands and subagents (partly), Plan and spec mode, Hosted macOS builds (partly), Mobile beta distribution (partly), Remote build caching (partly), Test run analytics (partly), Open-source community (partly), Integrations marketplace (partly), Malicious package detection (partly), License compliance & SBOM, Dynamic app & API testing, AI test generation (partly), IDE & pre-commit checks (partly), Multi-platform Git support (partly).
Alternatives to GitLab at a 10-developer team, best match first
- GitHub: $40/mo, $3,000 a year less than GitLab (Team). It covers 82% of GitLab; missing or partial: Self-managed edition (partly), Self-hosting & open source (partly), Inline code completion, VS Code and JetBrains extensions, Deployment management (partly). Free plan: Free: unlimited public/private repos and collaborators, 2,000 Actions min/mo, 500MB Packages; branch rules on public repos only.
- Bitbucket: $80/mo Page's tier data shows lower rates beyond 5 users (Premium). It covers 59% of GitLab; missing or partial: Pull request code review (partly), Code security scanning (partly), Self-managed edition (partly), AI pull request review (partly), Self-hosted runners (partly). Free plan: Free for up to 5 users: unlimited private repos, 50 build minutes/mo, 1 GB LFS.. Last price hike: Jan 2026.
Prices at every size
- GitLab: a 10-developer team $290/mo, 10,000 Linux CI minutes a month $290/mo, 1,000 macOS build minutes a month $87/mo (Premium billed annually only)
- GitHub: a 10-developer team $40/mo, 10,000 Linux CI minutes a month $48/mo, 1,000 macOS build minutes a month $49.60/mo
- Bitbucket: a 10-developer team $80/mo, 10,000 Linux CI minutes a month $116.50/mo, 1,000 macOS build minutes a month no public price (Page's tier data shows lower rates beyond 5 users)
Every price is for a 10-developer team on the cheapest monthly plan that covers the job (for Git hosts, private repos where a merge needs an approving review), with CI usage priced separately at 10,000 Linux minutes and 1,000 macOS minutes a month, seats and overage included. Free plans count when they cover the whole scenario and allow private, commercial use.
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