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."GitHub CoPilot helps us auto-complete code. The tool's context awareness benefits our projects because it identifies the context in which we are working and automatically proposes solutions that we use."
"GitHub CoPilot accelerates productivity. It is an easy-to-use solution that is also helpful in saving the team's time."
"The product's initial setup is straightforward because it's pushed through the updates."
"When I write code, I feel like I have someone sitting with me to help me. Wherever I'm stuck, I just ask a question, and it provides guidance that I can use."
"GitHub CoPilot has good stability and performance."
"Initially, OpenAI is free, but you'll need to pay for it later."
"The product's most valuable feature is vulnerability management features."
"The initial setup of the product is easy."
"GitLab is very well-organized and easy to use. Also, it offers most features that customers need."
"Of all available products, it was the easiest to use and easy to install."
"CI/CD is valuable for me."
"GitLab's best feature is Actions."
"It is very useful for reviews. We are using branch merging operations and full reset operations. It is also very useful for merging our code and tracking another branch. The graph diagrams of Git are very useful. Its interface is straightforward and not too complex for us."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it is compatible with GitHub. The product's integration capabilities are sufficient for our small company of 35 people."
"We have seen a couple of merge requests or pull requests raised in GitLab. I see the interface, the way it shows the difference between the two source codes, that it is easy for anyone to do the review and then accept the request; the pull request is the valuable feature."
"The solution makes the CI/CD pipelines easy to execute."
"Some of the suggestions provided by GitHub CoPilot are not accurate, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution is expensive. It should also support other programming languages."
"In certain instances, OpenAI didn't respond in the expected way. The responses were more general and didn't address the specific point."
"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"GitHub CoPilot's alerting features need improvement."
"GitHub CoPilot’s integration with other solutions could be improved."
"The tool needs to focus on integration, as it is the most important aspect. I would like to see some pre-designed modules included in my projects."
"The solution should be more cloud-native and have more cloud-native capabilities and features."
"I would like to have some features to support peer review."
"The tool should include a feature that helps to edit the code directly."
"It should be used by a larger number of people. They should raise awareness."
"We have only seen a couple of issues on Gitlab, which we use for building some of the applications."
"I believe there's room for improvement in the advanced features, particularly in enhancing the pipeline functionalities."
"As a partner, sometimes it's difficult to get support. They have a really complicated procedure for their support."
"We'd like to see better integration with the Atlassian ecosystem."
GitHub CoPilot is ranked 15th in Rapid Application Development Software with 11 reviews while GitLab is ranked 10th in Rapid Application Development Software with 70 reviews. GitHub CoPilot is rated 8.6, 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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