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."
"The product's initial setup is straightforward because it's pushed through the updates."
"The product's most valuable feature is vulnerability management features."
"The document generation features are valuable."
"GitHub CoPilot accelerates productivity. It is an easy-to-use solution that is also helpful in saving the team's time."
"GitHub CoPilot has good stability and performance."
"Initially, OpenAI is free, but you'll need to pay for it later."
"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."
"The merging feature makes it easy later on for the deployment."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"We're only using the basic features of GitLab and haven't used any advanced features. The solution works fine, so that's what we like about GitLab. We're party using GitHub and GitLab. We have a GitHub server, while we use GitLab locally or only within our team, and it works okay. We don't have any significant problems with the solution. We also found the straightforward setup, stability, and scalability of GitLab valuable."
"We like that we can have an all-encompassing product and don't have to implement different solutions."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the automatic merging of code."
"Key features allow creation of well-presented Wiki that includes ideas, development, and domains."
"GitLab's best feature is Actions."
"A user friendly solution."
"GitHub CoPilot's stability is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Some of the suggestions provided by GitHub CoPilot are not accurate, making it an area of concern where improvements are required."
"In certain instances, OpenAI didn't respond in the expected way. The responses were more general and didn't address the specific point."
"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 suggestions provided by the product must be improved."
"GitHub CoPilot's alerting features need improvement."
"GitHub CoPilot’s integration with other solutions could be improved."
"The solution is expensive. It should also support other programming languages."
"It should be used by a larger number of people. They should raise awareness."
"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."
"For as long as I have used GitLab, I haven't encountered any major limitations. However, I think that perhaps the search functionality could be better."
"When deploying the solution on cloud and the CI/CD pipeline, we have to define the steps and it becomes confusing."
"The integration and storage capabilities could be better."
"I would like to see better integration with project management tools such as Jira."
"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."
"GitLab's UI could be improved."
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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