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    CodeStream

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AThe vendor states CodeStream helps development teams resolve issues faster, and improve code quality by streamlining code reviews inside an IDE. CodeStream enables asynchronous communication among developers on a team, anywhere. Review changes in the context of the full source tree, using preferred keybindings and environments. Use a simple shortcut to highlight code and CodeStream will automatically assign a reviewer based on context and history. Comment and code review threads are…

    $10

    Per Seat / Per Month

    GitLab

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AGitLab DevSecOps platform enables software innovation by aiming to empower development, security, and operations teams to build better software, faster. With GitLab, teams can create, deliver, and manage code quickly and continuously instead of managing disparate tools and scripts. GitLab helps teams across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, from developing, securing, and deploying software. Differentiators, as described by Gitlab: Simplicity: With GitLab, DevSecOps can…

    $0

    per month per user

    Pricing
    CodeStreamGitLab
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $10.00
    Per Seat / Per Month
    Enterprise
    $49.00
    Per Seat / Per Month
    GitLab Essential
    $0
    per month per user
    GitLab Premium
    $29
    per month per user
    GitLab Ultimate
    $99
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CodeStreamGitLab
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsEnterprise tier includes admin console with advanced usage analytics, realtime merge conflict detection, API access, Single sign-on (SSO), premium support and success services—
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    CodeStream
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    GitLab
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    98%
    Would buy again
    125 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    126 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    81 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    101 Answers
    Best Alternatives
    CodeStreamGitLab
    Small Businesses
    Beyond Compare
    Score10 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Beyond Compare
    Score10 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Beyond Compare
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CodeStreamGitLab
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.9
    (142 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CodeStreamGitLab
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CodeStream
    CodeStream is well suited for all developments where two or more people are developing something and I feel there's rarely any project which is been developed and maintained by a single developer. So in short codestream is suitable for almost every development team: - More than one person is developing the code. - People need to get frequent reviews for efficient development. - Best suitable for the teams where new people are there very often. - Collaborations are part of every day to day activities. - Without raising PR and branch management reviews are been incorporated.
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    GitLab
    GitLab is good if you work a lot with code and do complex repository actions. It gives you a very good overview of what were the states of your branches and the files in them at different stages in time. It's also way easier and more efficient to write pipelines for CI\CD. It's easier to read and it's easier to write them. It takes fewer clicks to achieve the same things with GitLab than it does for competitor products.
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    Pros
    CodeStream
    • Integration
    • Easy to use.
    • Easy to maintain.
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    GitLab
    • GitLab excels in managing code versions, allowing easy tracking of changes, branch management, and merging contributions.
    • It helps maintain code stability and reliability, saving time and effort in the development or research workflow.
    • Powerful code review features, enabling collaboration and feedback among team members.
    • Robust project management features, including issue tracking, kanban boards, and milestones.
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    Cons
    CodeStream
    • UI and navigation between services
    • Only support YAML method
    • Manual setting of triggers in the pipeline
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    GitLab
    • CI variables management is sometimes hard to use, for example, with File type variables. The scope of each variable is also hard to guess.
    • Access Token: there are too many types (Personal, Project, global..), and it is hard to identify the scope and where it comes from once created.
    • Runners: auto-scaled runners are for the moment hard to put in place, and monitoring is not easy.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    CodeStream
    No answers on this topic
    GitLab
    I really feel the platform has matured quite faster than others, and it is always at the top of its game compared to the different vendors like GitHub, Azure pipelines, CircleCI, Travis, Jenkins. Since it provides, agents, CI/CD, repository hosting, Secrets management, user management, and Single Sign on; among other features
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    Usability
    CodeStream
    No answers on this topic
    GitLab
    I find it easy to use, I haven't had to do the integration work, so that's why it is a 9/10, cause I can't speak to how easy that part was or the initial set up, but day to day use is great!
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    Reliability and Availability
    CodeStream
    No answers on this topic
    GitLab
    I've never had experienced outages from GItlab itself, but regarding the code I have deployed to Gitlab, the history helps a lot to trace the cause of the issue or performing a rollback to go back to a working version
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    Performance
    CodeStream
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    GitLab
    GItlab reponsiveness is amazing, has never left me IDLE. I've never had issues even with complex projects. I have not experienced any issues when integrating it with agents for example or SSO
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    Support Rating
    CodeStream
    No answers on this topic
    GitLab
    At this point, I do not have much experience with Gitlab support as I have never had to engage them. They have documentation that is helpful, not quite as extensive as other documentation, but helpful nonetheless. They also seem to be relatively responsive on social media platforms (twitter) and really thrived when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    CodeStream
    When compared to Bitbucket, CodeStream is a luck lustre. Even though the overall features are more with CodeStream like customisation of API and more control of triggers across the designed pipeline, Bitbucket and Visual Studio score better in terms of faster implementation and dedicated and proven support system . Apart from that CodeStream fairs better than AWS CodePipeline in overall features
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    GitLab
    Gitlab seems more cutting-edge than GitHub; however, its AI tools are not yet as mature as those of CoPilot. It feels like the next-generation product, so as we selected a tool for our startup, we decided to invest in the disruptor in the space. While there are fewer out-of-the-box templates for Gitlab, we have never discovered a lack of feature parity.
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    Scalability
    CodeStream
    No answers on this topic
    GitLab
    I think is very well designed, and like any VCS it works as intended
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    Return on Investment
    CodeStream
    • Productivity of the team increased.
    • Lowered the chances of mistakes at the time of review.
    • No corners left un-observed.
    • The development cycle becomes more interactive and hence team enjoys the peer discussions and review process.
    • A lot of time is been saved, no need of conventional time taking reviews procedures.
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    GitLab
    • GitLab cut down our spent on container, package and infrastructure registry
    • Best thing is we can now have everything in single platform which cost effective too
    • Quality of support is really good and they do have emergency support team as well which is great
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