Head to head
TeamCity vs GitLab CI/CD
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
25/100 | 60/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #8 | #2 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | — | 86 |
| AI Authority | 10 | 59 |
| Web Authority | 11 | 21 |
| Expert Assessment | 67 | 62 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Not published (vendor Buy page is JavaScript-rendered and served no figures to retrieval) · free tier: Professional: free, no licence key required, 3 build agents, capped at 100 build configurations (archived ones counted) and 10 pipelines; excludes paid-integration Enterprise features such as AI Assistant; community forum support only | $29 per user/month, billed annually (Premium) · free tier: Free at $0/user/month, no credit card required: 5 users per top-level group, 400 compute minutes/month, SCM and CI/CD, 10 GiB adjustable storage, Static Application Security Testing; AI features require the GitLab Credits add-on |
| Pricing model | Licence-based: perpetual for covered versions with ~1-year maintenance period; agent-slot concurrency licensing (Cloud subscription model not verified) | Subscription (per user/month, annual) with credit and usage-based add-ons |
| Best for | Engineering organisations that need self-hosted or air-gapped CI/CD with steady, high build volume, where agent-based concurrency licensing caps a bill that per-minute SaaS metering would inflate — and teams already invested in JetBrains tooling. | Engineering organisations that want a single vendor for source control, CI/CD, security scanning and planning, especially those with data-residency or air-gap needs, those willing to run their own runners, and qualifying OSS, education or startup projects eligible for free Ultimate. |
| Avoid if | You want zero build infrastructure to operate, transparent self-serve pricing before speaking to sales, CI fused natively into your code host (GitHub Actions / GitLab CI), or you cannot guarantee uninterrupted maintenance renewal given the downgrade-and-pause behaviour. | You are a small team without seasoned DevOps staff, need more than 5 free users, want a lightweight CI runner bolted onto an existing stack, require month-to-month or mixed-tier licensing, run heavy CI on GitLab-hosted runners and cannot tolerate hard pipeline stops, or need a firm Ultimate budget before a sales cycle. |
| Markets | SMB, Enterprise, Open Source projects | SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, Public Sector, Open Source, Education, Startups |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | — |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.