Acronis vs GitLab
Acronis and GitLab are both Security & identity tools. Here is how they compare on pricing, audience, platforms and community votes.
Backup, disaster recovery and endpoint security for MSPs and PCs
DevSecOps platform with Git hosting, CI/CD, security scans and AI
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium · $29 |
| Built for | Small businesses, Enterprise, Agencies | Developers, Enterprise, Small businesses |
| Platforms | web, windows, macos, linux, ios, android | web, linux |
| Country | CH · 2003 | US · 2014 |
| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
| Rating | — | — |
Acronis
Acronis is a Swiss-headquartered cyber protection company founded in 2003, known for its True Image disk imaging software and, today, mainly for a multitenant platform that managed service providers use to back up, secure and manage their clients' systems. EQT agreed in 2024 to take a majority stake, and Acronis says more than 20,000 service providers and 750,000 businesses use its platform.
The business offering, marketed as the Acronis Cyber Platform and sold to service providers as Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, combines backup of servers, PCs, VMs and Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace with disaster recovery, EDR and MDR, email security, data loss prevention, patching, RMM and PSA-style billing and service desk tools. MSPs pay per workload for actual usage; IT departments buy one to three year terms. The consumer line, Acronis True Image, is sold per year: Essentials for local backup and cloning, Advanced with cloud storage and anti-malware, and Premium with 1 TB or more of cloud storage.
Acronis fits MSPs that want one console for backup, security and RMM, and home or small-office users who need full-disk images and cloning. Backblaze is simpler and cheaper for plain cloud backup, Afi.ai focuses on SaaS backup for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and Veeam is the usual choice for large virtualized data centers.
Buying tip: True Image prices rise with each extra computer and terabyte, so a 3 or 5 computer pack is better value for households. MSPs should check which security modules they already license elsewhere.
GitLab
GitLab is a single-application DevSecOps platform covering source control, code review, CI/CD, security scanning, package registries, planning and deployment. The open-source project was started in 2011 by Dmitriy Zaporozhets, and he and Sid Sijbrandij founded the company in 2014. It has been listed on Nasdaq since 2021. Its core job is to take code from an issue to production in one tool, either on GitLab.com or on your own servers.
GitLab bundles Git repositories, merge requests, CI/CD with runners, container and package registries, SAST, dependency and secret scanning, issue boards and epics. The Duo Agent Platform adds AI agents for planning, security triage and code review, plus flows that fix failing pipelines, billed through usage-based GitLab Credits at $1 each. Free covers 5 users per private group, 400 compute minutes and 10 GiB of storage; Premium adds approvals and 10,000 minutes; Ultimate adds advanced security, compliance and 50,000 minutes.
GitLab fits engineering organizations that want one platform with a self-hosting option, especially in regulated industries. The interface is dense, Premium is expensive for small teams, and many security features need Ultimate. GitHub has the larger community and marketplace, Snyk is a deeper specialist for application security, and Jira or Linear are stronger for product planning than GitLab issues.
Premium costs $29 per user a month billed annually, and Premium and Ultimate currently include promotional GitLab Credits worth $12 and $24 per user a month. The 30-day Ultimate trial includes the Duo Agent Platform.