GitLab vs UrbanCode Deploy comparison

GitLab and IBM are both solutions in the Release Automation category. GitLab is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.6, while IBM is ranked #9. GitLab holds a 35.1% mindshare in RA, compared to IBM’s 4.6% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of GitLab users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of IBM users who would recommend it.

GitLab

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97% willing to recommend

UrbanCode Deploy

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 7, 2025

GitLab and UrbanCode Deploy compete in the DevOps space, with each offering distinct capabilities. GitLab seems to have the upper hand due to its strong CI/CD pipeline features enhancing code quality through branch management and peer reviews.

Features: GitLab emphasizes continuous integration and delivery capabilities with automated deployment, repository management, and robust pipelines. UrbanCode Deploy focuses on extensive plugin-based architecture, a server/agent model that automates various environments, and a strong toolset for complex deployments.

Room for Improvement: UrbanCode Deploy requires enhanced repository support, streamlined upgrades, and better reporting features. GitLab could improve integration with container management like AWS and focus on security enhancements. Both products may benefit from better plugin availability and integration enhancements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: UrbanCode Deploy suits on-premises with customizable solutions but can be slow in issue resolution. GitLab supports various environments, offering flexibility and substantial help from its open-source community, though advanced support could improve.

Pricing and ROI: UrbanCode Deploy's cost scales with agents and servers, offering significant ROI through automation. GitLab, as an open-source solution, offers a cost-effective entry with appealing plans, although enterprise features might be costly, yet offering a competitive cost-to-value ratio.

To learn more, read our detailed GitLab vs. UrbanCode Deploy Report (Updated: March 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

GitLab

Ranking in Release Automation

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (8th), Build Automation (1st), 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)

UrbanCode Deploy

Ranking in Release Automation

9th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Release Automation category, the mindshare of GitLab is 35.1%, up from 32.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UrbanCode Deploy is 4.6%, up from 3.9% 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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it_user587571

Solution Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It offers OOTB plugins for middleware.

By standardizing the automated deployment application process, reducing the amount of errors due to manual steps and by providing visibility into the release cycles of various teams/applications, we've improved our global efficiency by at least 25% and still counting, since we've only used the product for a short period of time.

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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

"Continuous integration with deployment is very powerful, which is a significant reason for migrating from TFS to GitLab."

"The most important features of GitLab for us are issue management and all the CI/CD tools. Another aspect that I love about GitLab is the UI."

"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."

"Of all available products, it was the easiest to use and easy to install."

"GitLab is scalable and works well with multiple environments."

"I have found the most valuable features of GitLab are the GitClone, GitPush, GitPull, GitMatch, GitMit, GitCommit, and GitStatus."

"GitLab's best features are maintenance, branch integration, and development infrastructure."

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

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"The most valuable functionality is the ability to define the deployment process, schedule the deployment and automatically execute the deployments to different environments."

"The stability is good. I haven't experienced any issues."

"The most valuable feature is the snapshot functionality, which allows us to access previous versions of the artifacts."

"It is very easy to make a software release. It used to take us at least a couple of hours to make a release, now we went to production with a new one last night. This new release took me five minutes."

"The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently."

"Stable solution that's good for automating the CI/CD pipeline: from development to production."

Cons

"I've noticed an area for improvement in GitLab, particularly needing to go through many steps to push the code to the repository. Resolving that issue would make the product better. My team quickly fixed it by writing a small script, then double-clicking or enabling the script to take care of the issue. However, that quick fix was from my team and not the GitLab team, so in the next release, if an automatic deployment feature would be available in GitLab, then that would be good because, in Visual Studio, you can do that with just one click of a button."

"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 would be better if there weren't any outages. There are occasions where we usually see a lot of outages using GitLab. It happens at least once a week or something like that. Whatever pipelines you're running, to check the logs, you need to have a different set of tools like Argus or something like that. If you have pipelines running on GitLab, you need a separate service deployed to view the logs, which is kind of a pain. If the logs can be used conveniently on GitLab, that would be definitely helpful. I'm not talking about the CI/CD pipelines but the back-end services and microservices deployed over GitLab. To view the logs for those microservices, you need to have separate log viewers, which is kind of a pain."

"I would like to see security increased in the future. A secure environment is very important."

"Merge conflicts and repository maintenance could improve. If there is someone new to the system they would not know if there is a conflict."

"We would like to generate document pages from the sources."

"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 with variable environments."

"I don't really like the new Kubernetes integration because it is pretty focused on the on-premise environment, but we're in a hybrid environment."

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"I certainly would like to have a better way to pass information between deployment steps using UrbanCode Deploy because that's really difficult to do."

"The scalability of this application needs improvement. Changes and variations in the application become bottlenecks as they need to be more seamless and comfortable."

"The interface allows access in a number of ways but that can be confusing."

"I would like to see more reporting for container architecture."

"The technical support of the solution could definitely be improved as PMRs take long to resolve."

"I would like to have the agent up and running at all times, as opposed to only while it is in the DevOps pipeline."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"As I work in a vast enterprise, I'm unsure about the licensing cost for GitLab. It's the management team that takes care of that."

"This is an open-source solution."

"Its price is fine. It is on the cheaper side and not expensive. You have to pay additionally for GitLab CI/CD minutes. Initially, we used the free version. When we ran out of GitLab minutes, we migrated to the paid version."

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

"GitLab is cheap."

"This product is not very expensive but the price can be better."

"We are using the free version of GitLab."

"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."

More GitLab pricing and cost advice

"Considering COVID-19, the price is too high."

"The cost of the solution is high but it offers great ROI."

"The licensing fees for this solution are based on the number of servers that are being deployed and the number of agents that you have."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

28%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

65%

Financial Services Firm

16%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

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?

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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Also Known As

Fuzzit

uDeploy

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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IBM UrbanCode Deploy orchestrates and automates the deployment of applications, middleware configuration, and database changes into development, test, and production environments—local, dedicated or shared cloud environments—accelerating time to market and reducing cost by shrinking manual efforts from days to minutes with automation, while reducing risk by cutting deployment errors by up to 90 percent.

IBM

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

As policy, IBM does not release customer names on non-IBM web sites. However, public DevOps and UrbanCode Deploy case studies can be found here. IBM's UrbanCode Deploy customers span Small-Medium Businesses to Fortune 500 companies across all industries worldwide.

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