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GitLab brings software development, operations and security teams together on one platform to coordinate work across the software lifecycle. Customers can run it on their own infrastructure or use GitLab’s hosted services, including GitLab.com. Subscriptions supply most revenue, with customer-operated deployments accounting for the largest share. Those subscriptions provide support and updates for customer-operated software or access to the hosted platform.
Free access lets developers try the platform before paying for Premium or Ultimate, whose prices depend on licensed users and available features. Customers also pay through GitLab Credits to use GitLab Duo Agent Platform, which automates software-development tasks with AI. Enterprise and public-sector customers supply most recurring subscription business.
The business depends on customers renewing, adding users and buying more capabilities, as well as free users becoming paying customers. Its international services must also meet restrictions on transferring personal data across borders, while export controls and sanctions limit where and to whom GitLab can supply software and services.
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JFrog Ltd. competes with GitLab for enterprise development teams’ spending on delivering software and securing the components it contains. Watch adoption of JFrog’s paid security add-ons around Artifactory, its software-package management core, where its offering overlaps with GitLab’s built-in security.
Atlassian competes with GitLab for software teams’ collaboration, planning and development-workflow budgets, selling connected team apps where GitLab offers a unified development platform. Watch Atlassian’s acceptance among software teams: GitLab warns that more popular competing offerings can hurt its pricing and sales.
Microsoft owns GitHub, GitLab’s principal competitor for developers’ spending on storing code, managing development workflows and AI-assisted development. Watch GitHub’s pricing and AI offerings against GitLab’s pitch of flexible deployment and freedom to choose AI models.
Datadog and GitLab both serve companies investing in cloud applications: GitLab helps engineering teams build, secure and deliver them, while Datadog sells tools to monitor and protect them once running. Datadog’s application-performance monitoring and security products offer a view of spending on operating those applications, rather than on building them.
Elastic N.V. and GitLab both benefit from enterprises expanding cloud and self-managed software infrastructure: Elastic sells application search, monitoring and security subscriptions, while GitLab sells the platform for building and delivering applications. Watch Elastic customers adding users or new uses, a parallel to the customer expansion GitLab tracks.
Dynatrace, Inc. serves the operating side of the enterprise applications that GitLab helps teams develop and deliver, selling software that monitors applications and turns operating data into insights. Its hosted service and customer-deployed Dynatrace Managed offering provide another view of enterprise demand for cloud software and control over where data resides.
PagerDuty, Inc. sells subscriptions that help teams respond to incidents in running applications, covering the operating side of software built and delivered through platforms such as GitLab. Watch expansion among its enterprise customers, who provide most of its revenue, for a view of spending on reliable application operations.
Datadog, Inc. earningsDDOG
Datadog's report will show whether companies keep paying to monitor and secure cloud applications, offering GitLab a read on customer spending to operate software.
Look for what Datadog says about demand for its application monitoring and security products. If customers expand their use of these tools, companies are still investing in cloud applications once they are running; that supports the software-budget backdrop for GitLab's customers, but does not mean the same dollars go to GitLab. If demand weakens, companies may be tightening operating-software budgets, and GitLab's own subscription and customer-expansion figures still have to establish demand for its development platform. The report shows whether adjacent spending to operate applications is expanding or under pressure, not how GitLab itself is selling.
JFrog Ltd. earningsFROG
JFrog Ltd.'s report will show whether development teams pay extra to secure software components, a budget its products compete for with GitLab's built-in security features.
Read adoption of JFrog Ltd.'s paid security add-ons alongside demand for Artifactory, its software-package management core. If security add-ons grow with the core, development teams are paying extra for security in the software-delivery workflow: that validates the budget and signals more direct competition for GitLab's built-in security features. If Artifactory demand is strong but security add-ons lag, there is less evidence that customers will pay separately for security, making it harder for GitLab to count on security features to prompt upgrades. The result shows whether development teams treat security as a distinct paid need.
GitLab Inc. earningsThis company
Subscriptions drive most of GitLab's revenue, and this report will show whether existing customers adding seats, usage and higher tiers can keep growth going without squeezing gross margin.
Read subscription growth alongside dollar-based net retention rate: it measures how the annual recurring revenue (ARR) from customers present a year earlier changes with expansion, seat additions, downgrades or churn; GitLab reported 118% for fiscal 2026, down from 123% the year before. If subscriptions keep growing, retention improves and the number of customers with at least $100,000 in ARR rises, expansion is offsetting losses and existing customers are supporting growth. If retention falls further and large-customer growth slows, that growth is harder to sustain from the existing base. Then check whether gross margin holds: cloud hosting and AI services can add costs, so a falling margin alongside growth would show those revenues are costing more to serve. Together, the results show whether customer expansion is durable and whether growth is preserving its economics.
