GitLab vs Klocwork comparison

GitLab and Perforce are both solutions in the Application Security Tools category. GitLab is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.4, while Perforce is ranked #23 with an average rating of 8.3. GitLab holds a 3.0% mindshare in AS, compared to Perforce’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of GitLab users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Perforce users who would recommend it.

GitLab

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97% willing to recommend

Klocwork

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91% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Klocwork and GitLab are key players in the software development tools category. GitLab appears to have the upper hand with its comprehensive features and strong value proposition often highlighted in user reviews.

Features: Klocwork is specialized in static code analysis, enabling early detection of software defects, providing a powerful code review function, and offering a focused approach to security vulnerabilities. GitLab covers a broad spectrum of the DevOps lifecycle, offering CI/CD pipelines, integrated collaboration tools, and project management features. This all-in-one approach often sways user preference toward GitLab.

Room for Improvement: Klocwork could enhance integration capabilities, improve reporting functions, and streamline its user interface to increase efficiency. GitLab users often request more precise code analysis, improved scalability for larger projects, and enhanced performance for repositories with high activity levels.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Klocwork involves a more traditional setup process, which few users see as time-consuming but supported by responsive customer service. GitLab aligns well with cloud environments, offers a seamless deployment process, and receives positive feedback for its efficient customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Klocwork's setup cost tends to be higher, and ROI is considered justified mainly in niche applications. GitLab presents competitive pricing with widespread functionality, leading to a better ROI perception and making it a favored option for diverse projects.

To learn more, read our detailed GitLab vs. Klocwork Report (Updated: January 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

GitLab

Ranking in Application Security Tools

10th

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

9th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Build Automation (1st), Release Automation (2nd), Rapid Application Development Software (12th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (5th), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (2nd), Fuzz Testing Tools (2nd), DevSecOps (3rd)

Klocwork

Ranking in Application Security Tools

23rd

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

16th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Static Code Analysis (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Application Security Tools category, the mindshare of GitLab is 3.0%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Klocwork is 1.4%, down from 1.5% 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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AnirbanSarkar

Head - Solution Management Group at Meteonic Innovation Pvt. Ltd.

Lets you find defects during the development phase, so you don't have to wait till the development is over to find and address flaws

What needs improvement in Klocwork, compared to other products in the market, is the dashboard or reporting mechanisms that need to be a bit more flexible. The Klocwork dashboard could be improved. Though it's good, it's not as good as some of the other products in the market, which is a problem. The reporting could be more detailed and easier to sort out because sorting in Klocwork could be a bit more time-consuming, mainly when sorting defects based on filters, compared to how it's done on other tools such as Coverity. What I'd like added in the next release of Klocwork is the peer code review Cahoots which used to be a part of Klocwork, and the architecture analysis and both have been taken out of Klocwork. I found the two critical for specific deployments, so if those can be brought back to Klocwork, that would be very good.

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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 is very useful for pipelines, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It is also stable."

"I like that it's easy to deploy our services over GitLab. The customer support is also good with a really active community. You have a lot of support that you can get online with your stack. That is probably one of the benefits of using GitLab. It's also really fast."

"The most valuable features of GitLab are ease of use and highly intuitive UI and performance."

"The most valuable functionality of GitLab, for me, is the DevOps. Besides the normal source control based on Git, I find the Auto DevOps features most important in the solution."

"GitLab's best features are continuous integration and fast deployment."

"CI/CD and GitLab scanning are the most valuable features."

"The important feature is the entire process of versioning source code maintenance and easy deployment. It is a necessity for the CI/CD pipeline."

"GitLab has better support, and its features are superior compared to Jenkins."

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"The most valuable feature of Klocwork is finding defects while you're doing the coding. For example, if you have an IDE plug-in of Klocwork on Visual Studio or Eclipse, you can find the faults; similar to using spell check on Word, you can find out defects during the development phase, which means that you don't have to wait till the development is over to find the flaws and address the deficiencies. I also find language support in Klocwork good because it used to support only C, C++, C#, and Java, but now, it also supports Java scripts and Python."

"It's integrated into our CI, continuous integration."

"I like not having to dig through false positives. Chasing down a false positive can take anywhere from five minutes for a small easy one, then something that is complicated and goes through a whole bunch of different class cases, and it can take up to 45 minutes to an hour to find out if it is a false positive or not."

"Klocwork's most valuable feature is the static code analysis feature. It detects the potential problem earlier to allow the developer to receive feedback quickly and then address it before it becomes a problem."

"The ability to create custom checkers is a plus."

"One can increase the number of vendors, so the solution is scalable."

"There is a central Klocwork server at our headquarter in France so we connect the client directly to the server on-premises remotely."

"The tool helps the team to think beforehand about corner cases or potential bugs that might arise in real-time."

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Cons

"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."

"I used Spring Cloud config and to connect that to GitLab was so hard."

"Their RBAC is role-based access, which is fine but not very good."

"Based on what I know so far, its integration with Kubernetes is not so good. We have to develop many things to make it work. We have to acquire third-party components to work with Kubernetes."

"It would be really good if they integrated more features in application security."

"I would like to see better integration with project management tools such as Jira."

"I rate the support from GitLab a four out of five."

"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."

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"Klocwork has to improve its features to stay ahead of other free solutions."

"Klocwork does have a problem with true positives. It only found 30% of true positives in the Juliet test case."

"We bought Klocwork, but it was limited to one little program, but the program is now sort of failing. So, we have a license for usage on a program that is sort of failing, and we really can't use the license on anything else."

"Every update that we receive requires of us a lengthy and involved process."

"Now the only issue we have is that whenever we need to get the code we have to build it first. Then we can get the report."

"I believe it should support more languages, such as Python and JavaScript."

"This solution could be improved if they offered support of more languages including Ada and Golang. They currently only support seven languages."

"I would like to see better codes between projects and a more user-friendly desktop in the next release."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I'm not aware of the licensing costs because those were covered by the customer."

"The open-source version is very good and the commercial version is reasonably priced."

"The solution's pricing is acceptable."

"GitLab is a free solution to use."

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

"My company uses the free version of GitLab, which is GitLab Community Edition. There is a licensed version also available for GitLab."

"The solution is free."

"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."

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"When it comes to licensing, the solution has two packages, one for a fixed and the other for a floating server, with the former being more cost effective than the latter."

"Licensing fees are paid annually, but they also have a perpetual license."

"There are other solutions on the market such as Microsoft Visual Studio. They have been adding more static code analysis features that come for free. It is getting better all the time. That is one of the possibilities is that we've been considering that we may stop using the Klocwork because it doesn't give us any added value."

"Klocwork should not to be quite so heavy handed on the licensing for very specific programs."

"Klocwork is still tight on their licensing. If Klocwork would loosen up on the licensing, and where the license could be used, and how many different programs could be run on it, then we have several development programs that I would love to be able to use it for going forward."

"The limitation that we have is that Klocwork is licensed to certain programs, and if you want to license them to other programs, you have to pay more money."

"The pricing for Klocwork is very competitive if you compare it from apple to apple. It has competitive pricing regarding the licensing model and the per-license cost. Klocwork isn't a high-end investment for anyone deploying it; even SMBs can afford it. The Klocwork cost per user would depend on the license type, so I'm unable to mention a ballpark figure because it would depend on the type of installation and how the deployment will be, and the nodes to give an accurate calculation or figure. The total price depends on the package, so my company could never publish pricing for Klocwork on the website. My team first collects information from potential clients on the deployment scenario, project environment, etc., before suggesting a package for Klocwork. My rating for Klocwork in terms of pricing is a five because of its flexible license models. There's a license model for every type of organization, whether small, midsize, or enterprise, so it's a five out of five for me."

"This solution offers competitive pricing."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

29%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

42%

Manufacturing Company

19%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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?

There are missing search features, particularly when searching repositories or applying filters. Additionally, I have encountered issues with the deployment of CI/CD pipelines, especially dealing w...

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What do you like most about Klocwork?

It's integrated into our CI, continuous integration.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Klocwork?

Our purchasing department is responsible for tracking costs. It's one of the most widely used tools in our organization. It likely does not have a high price point. I don't have insights into licen...

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What needs improvement with Klocwork?

The main problem is that since it only parses the code, the warnings or the problems that are given as a result of the report can sometimes require a lot of effort to analyze. It will show all poss...

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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.

Klocwork detects security, safety, and reliability issues in real-time by using this static code analysis toolkit that works alongside developers, finding issues as early as possible, and integrates with teams, supporting continuous integration and actionable reporting.

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

ACCESS Co Ltd, Risk-AI, Winbond Electronics, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, University of Southern California, Alebra Technologies, SIMULIA, Risk Management Solutions, Brigham Young University, SRD, HRL

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