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Codefresh vs GitLab comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Codefresh
Ranking in Build Automation
18th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
GitLab
Ranking in Build Automation
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
91
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (7th), Release Automation (2nd), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (4th), Rapid Application Development Software (11th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (4th), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (2nd), Fuzz Testing Tools (2nd), DevSecOps (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of Codefresh is 0.9%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of GitLab is 7.2%, down from 16.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Build Automation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
GitLab7.2%
Codefresh0.9%
Other91.9%
Build Automation
 

Featured Reviews

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Dev Ops Engineer at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
GitOps control plane has transformed deployments and now enables proactive Kubernetes visibility
While using Codefresh, I still don't see many downsides, but I would say the UI performance with large logs is an area for improvement. When a complex pipeline generates a high volume of logs, the user interface can occasionally become sluggish, jittery, or take extra seconds to render. The only downside I would say is the UI experience and its smoothness. Although the visibility into Kubernetes is excellent, I would love to see out-of-the-box cost optimization metrics. Argo CD knows how a pod is performing, its status, and its state. There should be some kind of cost optimization metrics shown on the GitOps application where we could save money or perhaps reduce the resources of a particular pod application. One improvement I would say is a promotion process between environments, from lower to upper environment. Currently, the model with complex promotion logic such as specific concurrency strategies or smart rollbacks when multiple commits hit at once can feel quite manual. I would like to see more automated promotion gates that can handle multi-cluster dependencies without needing as much custom YAML configuration.
BasilJiji - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Role-based workflows have transformed daily deployments and improve team collaboration
GitLab has role-based access control, so when a team member needs to make a code change, they cannot directly apply it to the environment but must put in a merge request. Once a senior reviews the code and approves it, then it is implemented across the environment, making it safer and allowing everyone to experience the process. The best features GitLab offers are version control and automation, which are the major things that stand out to me. When it comes to access, the login is very smooth, with just one login integrated with our Okta, allowing everyone to log in easily. Deployments become much easier, and that is how GitLab helps. The automation features make my work easier because we use a tool called AWX, which is connected to GitLab. Whenever we run a job on AWX, it directly checks the code and uses it. Since the code is not preserved locally but kept in the cloud, it is safe and nobody can tamper with it. When it comes to safety, that is a major thing. Automation features allow the code to be accessed from any tools we use, so the jobs we run are helping tremendously and doing their work perfectly. For pipeline tasks, we have created a significant amount of pipelines, which are all hosted in GitLab. Running the pipelines has become much easier, and they are doing a perfect job, helping tremendously in our day-to-day activities. GitLab has positively impacted my organization because previously we stored code locally on servers, leading to many risks. Since GitLab came into our environment, our integration and deployments became much easier, helping our work become much smoother. Improvements from GitLab have led to better team collaboration because when several people are working, they can all edit the code and submit it as a merge request, and once approved, it reflects directly to the main branch. Many can work at the same time. When it comes to deployments, deploying has become much faster since we started using GitLab, and even if errors occur, we can spot them easily and troubleshoot, which has helped tremendously.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Since switching to Codefresh, our organization has definitely seen approximately a 30 percent reduction in deployment times."
"Before Codefresh, we had to plan the strategy, write the configuration file, and run everything; it used to take two to three days to plan and implement, but now it is a one-time job, so it can be done in ten to fifteen minutes, which has reduced a lot of time and sped up the automation and CI/CD, requiring fewer employees."
"Codefresh has positively impacted my organization; it has been amazing."
"Before Codefresh, we had to plan the strategy, write the configuration file, and run everything; it used to take two to three days to plan and implement, but now it is a one-time job, so it can be done in ten to fifteen minutes, which has reduced a lot of time and sped up the automation and CI/CD, requiring fewer employees."
"My advice for others looking into this product is to go for it; GitLab is the future."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its convenience. I am able to trace back most of my changes up to a far distance in time and it helps me to analyze and see the older version of the code."
"The dashboard and interface make it easy to use."
"The solution is valuable for developers because it includes version controlling, pipelines, CI/CD, and integrations."
"The CI/CD process is very efficient."
"The SaaS setup is impressive, and it has DAST solutioning."
"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."
"As a developer, this solution is useful as a repository holder because most of the POC projects that we have are on GitLab."
 

Cons

"The reason it is not a ten is because our developers who do not have Kubernetes and Docker knowledge cannot use Codefresh easily, and the configuration file we have to write is very complex, requiring prior knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker-based deployments."
"The reason it is not a ten is because our developers who do not have Kubernetes and Docker knowledge cannot use Codefresh easily, and the configuration file we have to write is very complex, requiring prior knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker-based deployments."
"Codefresh can be improved with more capability inside the GCP ecosystem."
"While using Codefresh, I still don't see many downsides, but I would say the UI performance with large logs is an area for improvement."
"GitLab can improve the integration with third-party applications. It could be made easier. Additionally, having API control from my application could be helpful."
"I used Spring Cloud config and to connect that to GitLab was so hard."
"Some of the scripts that we encountered in GitLab were not fully functional and threw up errors."
"The solution should again offer an on-premises deployment option."
"We'd like to see better integration with the Atlassian ecosystem."
"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."
"When deploying the solution on cloud and the CI/CD pipeline, we have to define the steps and it becomes confusing."
"There was a problem with the build environment when we were looking at developing iOS applications. iOS build require Mac machines and there are no Mac machines provided by GitLab in their cloud. So to build for mobile iOS application, we needed to use our own Mac machine within our own infrastructure. If GitLab were to provide a feature such that an iOS application could also be built through GitLab directly, that would be great."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is based on a licensing model that includes technical support and is paid annually."
"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."
"There are different licensing options available, including a free limited-user license."
"It is very expensive. We can't bear it now, and we have to find another solution. We have a yearly subscription in which we can increase the number of licenses, but we have to pay at the end of the year."
"We are currently using the open-source version."
"We are using its free version, and we are evaluating its Premium version. Its Ultimate version is very expensive."
"The open-source version is very good and the commercial version is reasonably priced."
"I don't mind the price because I use the free version."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
10%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise46
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Codefresh?
Codefresh has a learning curve for teams, as the initial pipeline configuration may require some familiarity with YAML and container-based CI/CD processes; a junior engineer cannot configure these ...
What is your primary use case for Codefresh?
I use Codefresh for Kubernetes applications and to deploy Kubernetes applications. We have used Codefresh for deploying containerized applications to Kubernetes environments, and our organization h...
What advice do you have for others considering Codefresh?
Previously, the process had to be done by three to four DevOps engineers, which included writing the YAML file, managing the containers running in Kubernetes, managing the configuration file, and c...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GitLab?
The setup cost for GitLab is minimal since the team has its own minimal resource balancing. The costing falls into an intermediate stage and is impactful across all results within the team. It allo...
What needs improvement with GitLab?
There are many improvements that GitLab can implement, such as addressing the issue of caching. Currently, when I have multiple tasks to merge or attempt multiple merges, the CI/CD and overall GitL...
What is your primary use case for GitLab?
My main use case for GitLab is as a version control system that we are using. Currently, I am working on an end-to-end AI pipeline, and I have deployed my whole code using GitLab so that all things...
 

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Sample Customers

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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
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