Elastic vs GitLab
What each one’s own pages state, side by side. Every value is a quote AirStack found on that product’s pages; “Not observed” means AirStack has not found it on that product’s pages.
| Elastic | GitLab | |
|---|---|---|
| What it says it does | Elastic is a technology company. elastic.co | GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for teams that won't compromise on speed or control as they scale agentic software engineering. about.gitlab.com |
| Starting at | Not observed | Not observed |
| Platforms | Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows, macOS, AWS, Alibaba, Azure, GCP, Google Cloud elastic.co | AWS, Azure, GCP docs.gitlab.com |
| Deployment | Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Serverless, self-managed, on-premises, Self-managed Elasticsearch, Hosted, Serverless elastic.co | Dedicated, GitLab.com, Self Managed, Self-Managed about.gitlab.com |
| Integrations | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, BigQuery, GKE, applications, cloud-native infrastructure, content repositories, security activity and context elastic.co | Bitbucket, GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, Slack, LDAP, SAML about.gitlab.com |
| Compliance | HIPAA, SOC 2 elastic.co | GDPR, SOC 2 about.gitlab.com |
| Free plan | Not observed | Yes about.gitlab.com |
| Plans | Limited, Base, Enhanced, Premium, Enterprise, Platinum elastic.co | Free, Premium, Ultimate about.gitlab.com |
| Open source | Yes elastic.co | Not observed |
| Pricing basis | Resource based pricing elastic.co | per user/month, about.gitlab.com |
Where they differ
- GitLab’s pages state a free plan; AirStack has not found that on Elastic’s pages.
- Elastic’s pages state that it is open source; AirStack has not found that on GitLab’s pages.
- GitLab claims GDPR on its own pages; Elastic’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
- Elastic claims HIPAA on its own pages; GitLab’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
Prices are list prices as written on each pricing page; check them before you buy. Nothing here is a ranking or a recommendation.