We performed a comparison between GitHub CoPilot and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Rapid Application Development Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The initial setup of the product is easy."
"Initially, OpenAI is free, but you'll need to pay for it later."
"The product's initial setup is straightforward because it's pushed through the updates."
"GitHub CoPilot has good stability and performance."
"The product's most valuable feature is vulnerability management features."
"The document generation features are valuable."
"The product is easy to integrate."
"GitHub CoPilot accelerates productivity. It is an easy-to-use solution that is also helpful in saving the team's time."
"Git hosting has an integration with ACD which is why we liked this solution in the first place."
"The user interface is really good so that helps with huge teams who need to collaborate."
"I like GitLab from the CI/CD perspective. It is much easier to set up CI/CD and then integrate with other tools."
"This is a scalable solution. We had around 200 users working with it."
"The initial setup of GitLab is pretty simple, with no complications."
"GitLab's best features are continuous integration and fast deployment."
"I find the features and version control history to be most valuable for our development workflow. These aspects provide us with a clear view of changes and help us manage requests efficiently."
"We use the Git repository and tagging feature. We are a product-based company and use this solution to move to a forward or backward tag."
"GitHub CoPilot's stability is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"There's room for improvement to ensure that suggestions align more precisely with the context of what I'm seeking, minimizing instances of unrelated or inaccurate code suggestions."
"In certain instances, OpenAI didn't respond in the expected way. The responses were more general and didn't address the specific point."
"Some of the suggestions provided by GitHub CoPilot are not accurate, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"GitHub CoPilot's alerting features need improvement."
"GitHub CoPilot’s integration with other solutions could be improved."
"In a few cases, the results aren't correct, so that needs improvement. Also, it would be great if the results could be presented in different formats, not just text. As engineers, it takes time to read through text-based results."
"The solution should again offer an on-premises deployment option."
"Atlassian offers more products than GitLab. GitLab offers source control management, version control and collaboration between developers. Atlassian offers features on top of this as well as more integration points for developers."
"It's more related to the supporting layer of features, such as issue management and issue tracking. We tend to always use, for example, Jira next to it. That doesn't mean that GitLab should build something similar to Jira because that will always have its place, but they could grow a bit in those kinds of supporting features. I see some, for example, covering ITSM on a DevOps team level, and that's one of the things that I and my current client would find really helpful. It's understandably not going to be their main focus and their core, and whenever you are with a company that needs a bit more advanced features on that specific topic, you're probably still going to integrate with another tool like Jira Service Management, for example. However, some basic features on things like that could be really helpful."
"There is room for improvement in GitLab Agents."
"We would like to have easier tutorials. Their tutorials are too technical for a user to understand. They should be more detailed but less technical."
"As GitLab is not perfect, what needs improvement in the solution is the Wiki feature of the groups or the repertories because currently, it's not searchable by default. You'll need an indexing service such as Elasticsearch to make it searchable, and that requires too much work, so for me, it's the main feature that should be improved in GitLab. In the next version of the solution, from the top of my head, the documentation could be improved. Besides the Wiki, it would be good if there's documentation that would be automatically generated based on the code repository. In other words, there should be some tutorials from GitLab for developers in the next release."
"GitLab can improve by integrating with more tools, such as servers with Docker."
"GitLab's Windows version is yet not available and having this would be an improvement."
GitHub CoPilot is ranked 15th in Rapid Application Development Software with 10 reviews while GitLab is ranked 10th in Rapid Application Development Software with 70 reviews. GitHub CoPilot is rated 8.4, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of GitHub CoPilot writes "Though it offers good integration features, the price needs to be lowered". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". GitHub CoPilot is most compared with Oracle Application Express (APEX), Pega BPM, ServiceNow, Mendix and OutSystems, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Veracode. See our GitHub CoPilot vs. GitLab report.
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