GitLab Ultimate
How does Fluid Attacks’ solution compare to GitLab Ultimate’s? The following comparison table enables you to discern the performance of both providers across various attributes essential for meeting your company’s cybersecurity needs. To better understand each attribute, read their descriptions in the dedicated page .
Note
This comparison focuses exclusively on the product itself, even though it belongs to a larger parent company. All information collected is based on the product’s technical, functional, and theoretical capabilities, not on attributes of the parent company.
Organization
| Attribute | Essential | Advanced | GitLab |
| Focus | Native ASPM with in-house scanners | AI-powered PTaaS on top of native ASPM with in-house scanners | In-house scanners |
| Extras | None | None | None |
| Headcount | 143 | Same | Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) |
| Headcount distribution | Engineering 42% , IT 13%, sales 13%, marketing 2%, operations 4% and others 26% | Same | Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) |
| Headcount growth | +8% , +10%, -8% | Same | Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) |
| Headquarters | CO and US | Same | Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) |
| Countries | AR , BO, CA, CL, CO, DO, MX, PA, PE and US | Same | Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) |
| Reputation | 9.77 from 209 reviews over 7 years on Gartner and Clutch | Same | 8.72 from 437 reviews over 9 years on PeerSpot and TrustRadius |
| Followers | 20K based on the following: Facebook , Instagram , LinkedIn , X and YouTube | Same | Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) |
| Research firms | None | None | Forrester |
| Founded | 2001 | Same | 2017 |
| Funding | Bootstrapped | Same | Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) |
| Acquisitions | None | None | Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) |
| Revenue | 10M to 15M | Same | Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) |
| CVEs as CNA Researcher | 276 CVEs reported to MITRE , ranked in the top 10 CVE labs worldwide | Same | 1,007 CVEs reported to MITRE by GitLab |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 | Same | None |
| Bug bounty | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Visits | 21K per month. Top 3: 26% CO, 8% FR, 7% US. Others 59% | Same | Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) |
| Authority | 32 out of 100 | Same | Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) |
| Public vulnerability DB | Discovered and third-party | Same | GitLab - Third-party |
| Content | Blog , documentation , e-books , glossary , reports, success stories , videos , webinars and white papers | Same | Articles, blog, conferences, documentation, guides, success stories, videos, webcast, webinars and workshops |
| Comprehensive documentation | 13 documentation sections , 6 in common and 7 additional | Same | 8 documentation sections, 6 in common and 2 additional |
| Community | Forum | Same | Chat (Discord) and Forum by GitLab |
| Sync training | 1 workshop | Same | No |
| Async training | 3 product use courses , all free | Same | 5 product use courses by GitLab with certification (subscription-based) |
| Distribution | Direct or with any of its 14 partners | Same | Direct or with any of its 377 partners |
| Marketplaces | AWS | Same | AWS and GCP |
| Freemium | No | No | Yes (Application Security Testing not included) |
| Free trial | 21-day free trial | PoV | 30-day free trial and PoV |
| Demo | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Open demo | No | No | No |
| Pricing | Contact sales and marketplace | Contact sales | Contact sales, marketplaces and public web |
| Pricing tiers | 1 plan | 1 plan | 1 plan |
| Minimum term | Monthly | Monthly | Annually |
| Minimum payment period | Monthly | Monthly | Monthly |
| Minimum capabilities | ASPM , binary SAST, containers, CSPM, DAST, IaC, SAST, SCA and secrets | Same plus: API security testing , PTaaS, RE and SCR | API security testing, containers, DAST, IaC, SAST and secrets |
| Minimum scope | 1 author | Same | 1 user |
| Pricing drivers | Authors | Same | Users |
| Free implementation | Yes | Yes | No |
| Free support | Yes | Yes | No |
Service
| Attribute | Essential | Advanced | GitLab |
| PTaaS | No | Yes | No |
| Reverse engineering | No | Yes | No |
| Secure code review | No | Yes | No |
| Pivoting | No | Yes | No |
| Exploitation | No | Yes | No |
| Manual reattacks | Not applicable | Unlimited reattacks | Not applicable |
| Zero-day vulnerabilities | None | Continuous zero-day vulnerability research | None |
| SLA | Availability | Accuracy , availability and response | Response |
| Minimum availability | >=99.95% per minute LTM | Same | None |
| After-sale guarantees | No | Yes | Yes |
| Accreditations | CNA and Penetration Testing by CREST | Same | Amazon Linux Ready Product, AWS Graviton Ready Product, CNA, DevOps ISV Competency (as GitLab) |
| Hacker certifications | Not applicable | 202 from 59 different types | Not applicable |
| Type of contract | Employee | Same | Employee |
| Endpoint control | Not applicable | Total | Not applicable |
| Channel control | Not applicable | Total | Not applicable |
| Standards | Some requirements from 67 standards , 15 in common and 52 additional | All requirements from the same standards | 31 standards, 15 in common and 16 additional |
| Detection method | Automated tools | Automated tools , AI and human intelligence | Automated tools |
| Remediation | 5Â , 4 in common and 1 additional | Same, plus 1Â | 5, 4 in common and 1 additional |
| Outputs | 5Â , 4 in common and 1 additional | Same, plus 2Â | 6, 4 in common and 2 additional |
Product
| Attribute | Essential | Advanced | GitLab |
| ASPM | Yes | Yes | No |
| API | GraphQL with JSON | Same | REST and GraphQL with JSON |
| IDE | 5 functionalities , 3 in common and 1 additional | Same , plus 1 functionality | 3 functionalities all in common |
| CLI | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CI/CD | Breaks the build | Same | Breaks the build |
| Vulnerability sources | 4 sources , 1 in common and 3 additional | Same | 2 sources, 1 in common and 1 additional |
| Threat model alignment | Yes | Yes | No |
| Priority criteria | CVSS v4.0 , CVSSF , EPSS and KEV | Same | CVSS, EPSS and KEV |
| Custom prioritization | Priority score | Same | Risk score |
| Scanner origin | In-house | In-house | In-house and External (Gemnasium for SCA, KICKS for IaC, Semgrep for SAST and Trivy for Containers) |
| SCA | 23 package managers , 15 in common and 8 additional | Same | 16 package managers, 15 in common and 1 additional |
| AI security | No | Yes | No |
| Reachability | 12 languages , 4 in common and 8 additional | Same | 4 languages, all in common |
| Reachability type | Deterministic | Same | Deterministic |
| SBOM | 22 package managers , 13 in common and 9 additional | Same | 16 package managers, 13 in common and 3 additional |
| Malware detection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Autofix on components | No | No | Yes |
| Containers | 4 distributions , 3 in common and 1 additional | Same | 13 distributions, 3 in common and 10 additional |
| **Source SAST ** (languages) | 12 , 11 in common and 1 additional | Same | 17, 11 in common and 6 additional |
| **Source SAST ** (frameworks) | 22 , 3 in common and 19 additional | Same | 4, 3 in common and 1 additional |
| Custom rules | No | No | Secrets |
| IaC | 6Â , 4 in common and 2 additional | 4Â , 2 in common and 2 additional | 7, 6 in common and 1 additional |
| Binary SAST | 1 type of binary | Same , plus 2 types of binaries | No |
| DAST | 7 attack surface types , 6 in common and 1 additional | Same | 9 attack surface types, 6 in common and 3 additional |
| API security testing | No | 4 types of APIs , all in common | 6 types of APIs, 4 in common and 2 additional |
| IAST | No | No | No |
| CSPM | Yes | Yes | No |
| ASM | No | No | No |
| Secrets | 15 secrets types , 7 in common and 8 additional | Same , plus verify other attack vectors and secrets exploitability | 135 secrets types, 7 in common and 128 additional |
| AI | 3 function s, all in common | Same | 4 functions, 3 in common and 1 additional |
| MCP | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Open-source | MPL-2.0 license . Totally equivalent to the paid version | Not applicable | MIT. Partially equivalent to the paid version |
| Provisioning as code | Yes | Yes | No |
| Deployment | SaaS (multi-tenant) | Same | SaaS + on-premises (no tenancy information) |
| Regions | US | Same | US |
| Status | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Incidents | 4 per year | Same | 11.5 per year |
Integrations
| Attribute | Essential | Advanced | GitLab |
| SCM | 6 , 1 in common and 5 additional | Same | 1 in common |
| Binary repositories | None | None | None |
| Ticketing | 3 , 2 in common and 1 additional | Same | 9, 2 in common and 7 additional |
| ChatOps | None | None | 3 |
| IDE | 3 , 2 in common and 1 additional | Same | 15, 2 in common and 13 additional |
| CI/CD | 21 , 4 in common and 17 additional | Same | 4, all in common |
| SCA | Native | Same | Native powered by Gemnasium and 8 integrations |
| Container | Native | Same | Native powered by Trivy and 3 integrations |
| SAST | Native | Same | Native powered by Semgrep and 5 integrations |
| DAST | Native | Same | Native and 3 integrations |
| IAST | None | None | None |
| Cloud | 3 | Same | None |
| CSPM | Native | Same | 1 |
| Secrets | Native | Same | Native and 1 integration |
| Remediation | None | None | None |
| Bug bounty | None | None | 1 |
| Vulnerability management | None | None | None |
| Compliance | None | None | 1 |
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The latest update to this comparison was on Dec 15, 2025. The primary sources of information were about.gitlab.com and docs.gitlab.com, which were supplemented by specialized information-gathering sites, social media, and other sources.
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