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GitLab

Hosts source repositories, CI/CD pipelines and security scanning, with AI agents running under the same merge request approvals and audit trail.

Actively maintained

At a glanceswept Oct 22, 2026

≈ 591kvisits/mo

Widely used · estimate, read Oct 13, 2026

For
engineering teams scaling software delivery and agentic AI development while keeping security and governance controls
Activity
Actively maintainedrelease 9 days ago · site updated today
Company
GitLab Inc. · since 2011 · ~2,500 peoplesite footer · per their site
App Store
51 ratingsiPhone & iPad · updated Oct 13, 2026
Used for
  • convert tracked issues into code changes for review
  • find and fix security vulnerabilities during code review
  • run security scans inside CI pipelines before release
Worth knowingcomputed from what we read · each with its source
  • Used more than 100% of the 2,073 tools on its shelfINITE Atlas →
  • On the web since 2011, older than 96% of its shelfINITE Atlas
  • Has an MCP server (1 in the registry)public registry →
The companyeach fact with its source · read Oct 15, 2026
Your datawhat they publish, each line with its page · read Oct 15, 2026

These are GitLab's own statements, read from its pages. We did not audit them. A line that is missing was not found on the pages we read; it does not mean the practice is absent.

How a program reaches itfound, not claimed · read Oct 15, 2026
  • MCP servercom.gitlab/mcpverified in the MCP registry
  • Stateanswers, requires sign-inchecked 2026-10-15
  • Address to connectgitlab.com/api/v4/mcp
  • Status pagelinked from the homepagestatus.gitlab.com ↗

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Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.

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Questions this page answers
  • What is GitLab?

    Hosts source repositories, CI/CD pipelines and security scanning, with AI agents running under the same merge request approvals and audit trail. It is listed in the Atlas under Developer tools and made by GitLab Inc.

  • Who is GitLab for?

    engineering teams scaling software delivery and agentic AI development while keeping security and governance controls

  • Do people use GitLab?

    Widely used: ≈ 591k visits/mo · estimate, 2026-10.

  • Is GitLab still maintained?

    Actively maintained: release 9 days ago · site updated today.

  • Who owns GitLab?

    GitLab is run by GitLab Inc., per its site footer (2026-10-15).

  • Is GitLab safe?

    We do not audit vendors. What GitLab publishes, read 2026-10-15: a trust center.

  • Does GitLab have an iPhone app?

    Yes: “GLab — Client for GitLab” on the App Store, rated 5 from 1 ratings; current version released 2026-10-13.

  • What are alternatives to GitLab?

    In Developer tools, by use: GitHub.

How we read a tool

No votes, no reviews, no vendor claims. Every week a crawler reads each tool's own site and a few public registries, and the words on the card are bands over what it read.

  • Use: visits to the site (estimated), installs from npm and PyPI, presence in Chrome's usage report.
  • Activity: the newest release on GitHub, npm or PyPI; the newest dated page on the site; open roles on a public jobs board.
  • Price: the vendor's own pricing page, read with the date. A figure is printed only when it is on that page.
  • The line and the use cases are written by us from the homepage, one tool at a time, and refused when they repeat the vendor's marketing.

How AI assistants read each site — the reading vendors ask us about — is on each tool's own visibility page.

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