GitLab vs Incredibuild comparison

GitLab and IncrediBuild are both solutions in the Build Automation category. GitLab is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.6, while IncrediBuild is ranked #24. GitLab holds a 16.9% mindshare in BA, compared to IncrediBuild’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of GitLab users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IncrediBuild users who would recommend it.

GitLab

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97% willing to recommend

Incredibuild

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241 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between GitLab and Incredibuild based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

GitLab

Ranking in Build Automation

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (8th), Release Automation (2nd), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (7th), Rapid Application Development Software (12th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (5th), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (2nd), Fuzz Testing Tools (2nd), DevSecOps (3rd)

Incredibuild

Ranking in Build Automation

24th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of GitLab is 16.9%, down from 18.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Incredibuild is 0.7%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Gaurav Chandel

AWS DevOps/ Site Reliability Engineer at Tata Consultancy

Boosted productivity with automated pipelines and seamless collaboration

There are some challenges with repository file management as GitLab may struggle to manage larger files. Improvements could be made regarding size management and file partitioning. Also, the UI has remained the same for a couple of years and could benefit from an update with AI features and better customization.

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Zvika Moskovitz

DevOps Team Leader at Elbit Systems Ltd

Saves time for developers, which saves money for the company

We are using the Incredibuild agent to run multiple processes on all available cores. This is the improvement that we did. Instead of the machine's core doing task after task, it is now running on multiple machines. In my working environment, it is saving time for all our developers in regards to the time consumption of the builds. My team has four people who manage and interact with Incredibuild as a product.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"GitLab's best feature is Actions."

"GitLab's source control is excellent."

"GitLab offers a good interface for doing code reviews between two colleagues."

"The code merging capability is something that we use very frequently."

"GitLab integrates well with other platforms."

"The most valuable aspects of GitLab are the ability to create branches, merge branches, and compare branches to resolve code conflicts."

"The CI/CD process is very efficient."

"The most valuable features of GitLab are the CI/CD pipeline and code management."

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"It is saving time for developers, which is saving money for the company."

Cons

"It could have more security integrations and the ability to check the vulnerability of the code. I don't think it is a responsibility of Gitlab, but it would be nice to have more options to integrate with."

"You need to have a good knowledge of the product in order to use it."

"Expand features to match other tools such as a static code analysis tool so third-party integrations are not required."

"The solution could improve by providing more integration into the CI/CD pipeline, an autocomplete search tool, and more supporting documentation."

"GitLab can improve by integrating with more tools, such as servers with Docker."

"GitLab doesn't have AWS integration. It would be better to have integration with other container management environments beyond Kubernetes. It has very good integration with Kubernetes, but it doesn't have good integration with, for example, AWS, ETS, etc."

"In the next release, I would like to see GitLab expand its integration capabilities to include platforms like DigitalOcean, which developers widely use for cloud infrastructure. Enhancing CI/CD automation features specifically tailored for DigitalOcean would be beneficial."

"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."

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"Stability could be improved. I don't know the reason for the instability because there are no logs that help me to understand the problem."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an open-source solution."

"In terms of the pricing for GitLab, on a scale of one to five, with one being expensive and five being cheap, I'm rating pricing for the solution a four. It could still be cheaper because right now, my company has a small team, and sometimes it's difficult to use a paid product for a small team. You'd hope the team will grow and scale, but currently, you're paying a high license fee for a small team. I'm referring to the GitLab license that has premium features and will give you all features. This can be a problem for management to approve the high price of the license for a team this small."

"We are using the free version of GitLab."

"We are using its free version, and we are evaluating its Premium version. Its Ultimate version is very expensive."

"We are using the open-source version."

"GitLab is an open-source solution."

"The solution is free."

"The solution's standard license is paid annually. They have changed the pricing model and it used to be better. There is a free version available."

More GitLab pricing and cost advice

"Its pricing and licensing are annoying. Every year, I need to renew. If I miss the deadline date, all my processes will stop working. So, I would prefer that I wouldn't need to renew every year, instead have another solution for it. Or, if we could have an enterprise license agreement with the company, then the development team wouldn't need to spend time renewing licenses."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

26%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

17%

Computer Software Company

17%

Legal Firm

13%

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about GitLab?

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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GitLab?

The pricing of GitLab is reasonable, aligning with what I consider to be average compared to competitors.

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What needs improvement with GitLab?

Certain features in Jira are not available in GitLab, such as the functionality to have weights at the milestone and epic levels. Hopefully, these features will be resolved with work items in GitLa...

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Overview

GitLab is a complete DevOps platform that enables teams to collaborate and deliver software faster.

It provides a single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle, from planning and development to testing, deployment, and monitoring.

With GitLab, teams can streamline their workflows, automate processes, and improve productivity.

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Incredibuild, the world’s leading platform for development acceleration, lets you deliver faster developer cycles and shorten your time-top market with more compute power and lower costs on prem and the cloud.

Incredibuild enables every machine to use hundreds of cores to accelerate time-consuming software development by using idle CPUs in network or bursting to the cloud. Use the full potential of your network to raise product quality, iterate more frequently, and increase dev productivity.

Most importantly, Incredibuild works out of the box, no need to change any of your existing toolchain, processes, or code.

IncrediBuild

Sample Customers

1. NASA 2. IBM 3. Sony 4. Alibaba 5. CERN 6. Siemens 7. Volkswagen 8. ING 9. Ticketmaster 10. SpaceX 11. Adobe 12. Intuit 13. Autodesk 14. Rakuten 15. Unity Technologies 16. Pandora 17. Electronic Arts 18. Nordstrom 19. Verizon 20. Comcast 21. Philips 22. Deutsche Telekom 23. Orange 24. Fujitsu 25. Ericsson 26. Nokia 27. General Electric 28. Cisco 29. Accenture 30. Deloitte 31. PwC 32. KPMG

Over 2,000 companies worldwide across industries inluding Epic Games, Microsoft, Playstation, Nintendo, Samsung, GM, Intel, CitiGroup, Qualcomm, Boeing, Motorola, Qt, and more accelerate their development and enhance their devs’ productivity with Incredibuild.

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