Product Solutions Resources Partners Pricing Support Talk to an expert Get free trial Login GitLab vs Electric Flow Decision Kit Summary Electric Cloud ElectricFlow is a platform which provides deployment automation, release orchestration, and DevOps insights to help organizations deliver better software faster. The base platform (formerly known as Electric Commander) is used by many organizations to automate their CI/CD pipelines. Although Electric Cloud claims complete end to end DevOps, the platform requires a lot of integration to other tools in the tool chain in order to supplement functionality, as do just about all CI/CD point tools. In contrast, GitLab come pre-integrated with fundamental and extended functionality built-in across the DevOps lifecycle. An example is with security tools, where other CI/CD vendors such as Electric Cloud claim DevSecOps, they merely integrate to 3rd party security tools and maybe provide a dashboard. GitLab comes with many security scanning capabilities built-in. Feature Comparison FEATURES Environments and deployments SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab CI is capable of not only testing or building your projects, but also deploying them in your infrastructure, with the added benefit of giving you a way to track your deployments. Environments are like tags for your CI jobs, describing where code gets deployed. Learn more about environments Per-environment permissions SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Developers and QA can deploy to their own environments on demand while production stays locked down. Build engineers and ops teams spend less time servicing deploy requests, and can gate what goes into production. Learn about protected branches in GitLab Environments history SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Environments history allows you to see what is currently being deployed on your servers, and to access a detailed view for all the past deployments. From this list you can also re-deploy the current version, or even rollback an old stable one in case something went wrong. Learn more about history of an environment Environment-specific variables SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Limit the environment scope of a variable by defining which environments it can be available for. Learn how to configure environment-specific variables Group-level variables SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Define variables at the group level and use them in any project in the group. Learn how to configure variables Object storage for artifacts SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Artifacts can be stored on Object Storage (Amazon S3) Learn how to store artifacts on object storage Run CI/CD jobs on Windows SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab Runner supports Windows and can run jobs natively on this platform. You can automatically build, test, and deploy Windows-based projects by leveraging PowerShell or batch files. Install GitLab Runner on Windows Run CI/CD jobs on macOS SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab Runner supports macOS and can run jobs natively on this platform. You can automatically build, test, and deploy for macOS based projects by leveraging shell scripts and command line tools. Install GitLab Runner on macOS Run CI/CD jobs on Linux ARM SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab Runner supports Linux operating systems on ARM architectures and can run jobs natively on this platform. You can automatically build, test, and deploy for Linux ARM based projects by leveraging shell scripts and command line tools. Install GitLab Runner on Linux Run CI/CD jobs on FreeBSD SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab Runner supports FreeBSD and can run jobs natively on this platform. You can automatically build, test, and deploy for FreeBSD-based projects by leveraging shell scripts and command line tools. Install GitLab Runner on FreeBSD Details on duration for each command execution in GitLab CI/CD SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Other CI systems show execution time for each single command run in CI jobs, not just the overall time. We’re reconsidering how job output logs are managed in order to add this feature as well. Learn more about job output logs in the documentation Auto DevOps SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Auto DevOps brings DevOps best practices to your project by automatically configuring software development lifecycles by default. It automatically detects, builds, tests, deploys, and monitors applications. Read more about Auto DevOps in the documentation Protected Runners SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Protected Runners allow you to protect your sensitive information, for example deployment credentials, by allowing only jobs running on protected branches to access them. Read more on the issue Distributed cloning with GitLab Geo SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Built for distributed teams, GitLab Geo helps to reduce time to clone and fetch large repos with GitLab Geo - thereby speeding up the user experience for all users regardless of location. Learn more about GitLab Geo Support for Scaled Architectures SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Scale GitLab services across multiple nodes to manage demand and provide redundancy. Determine the optimal architecture for your needs using reference architectures. Learn more about scaling GitLab Deploy Boards SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Deploy Boards offer a consolidated view of the current health and status of each CI/CD environment running on Kubernetes. The status of each pod of your latest deployment is displayed seamlessly within GitLab without the need to access Kubernetes. Learn more about Deploy Boards Timed and manual incremental rollout deployments SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab can allow you to deploy a new version of your app on Kubernetes starting with just a few pods, and then increase the percentage if everything is working fine. This can be configured to proceed per a schedule or to pause for input to proceed. Learn more about configuring incremental rollout deployments Canary Deployments SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab Premium can monitor your Canary Deployments when deploying your applications with Kubernetes. Canary Deployments can be configured directly through .gitlab-ci.yml, the API, or from the UI of the Deploy Boards. Learn more about configuring Canary Deployments Multiple integrations SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab can integrate with Authentication and Authorization (LDAP / AD) mechanisms, multiple 3rd party services, CI/CD, and other tools such as ALM, PLM, Agile and Automation tools. Learn more about GitLab's integrations Easy upgrade process SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Using our official Linux repositories or the official Docker image, upgrading GitLab is a breeze. Learn how to upgrade your GitLab instance Community based, users can help shape the product SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab has open issue trackers for almost all of its operations. From GitLab itself to infrastructure and marketing, you can help shape the product. View all GitLab contributors Kubernetes Cluster Monitoring SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Monitor key metrics of your connected Kubernetes cluster. Learn more about Cluster Monitoring ChatOps SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Execute common actions directly from chat, with the output sent back to the channel. Learn more about ChatOps Enforced Two-factor Authentication (2FA) SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Two-factor authentication secures your account by requiring a second confirmation, in addition to your password. That second step means your account stays secure even if your password is compromised. The ability to enforce 2FA provides further security by making sure all users are using it. Learn more about Enforced GitLab 2FA Domain Specific Language SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE A Domain Specific Language (DSL) for defining infrastructure configuration allows thinking in resources, not files or commands to write declarative rather then procedural code. Twitter Facebook YouTube LinkedIn Why GitLab? Product Solutions Services DevOps tools Is it any good? Releases Pricing Get started Resources All resources All-Remote Blog Newsletter Events Webcasts Topics Training Docs Developer Portal Install Community Customers Contribute Community Programs Direction Technology Partners Channel Partners Open Source Partners GitLab for Open Source GitLab for Education GitLab for Startups Shop Community Forum Support Get help Contact Sales Contact Support Support options Status Customers Portal Company About What is GitLab? 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