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Project Management Comparison

awork vs. GitLab

At a glance

At a glance

awork

Best for

Best for agencies and service teams that want strong project management, time tracking and resource planning with EU/German hosting, without built-in invoicing.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized

GitLab

Best for

Best for engineering organisations that want planning, code, CI/CD and security on one platform.

  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.

Full Comparison

Criterion awork GitLab
Starting price From €5 / user / month Billed annually. Free plan; Premium $29 / user / month Premium is billed annually and includes 10,000 compute minutes and 500 GiB of storage a month; Ultimate is priced on request. The free plan is capped at five users per top-level group. GitLab Credits for AI features cost $1 each, extra compute minutes $10 per 1,000 and extra storage $5 a month per 10 GiB. Enterprise Agile Planning seats for non-developers cost $15 per user and month on Ultimate.
Free trial 14 days Free plan
API Not stated Yes, APIs and webhooks
Languages German, English Not stated
Hosting EU (Germany, Frankfurt), ISO/IEC 27001 certified, GDPR-compliant GitLab.com SaaS, single-tenant Dedicated or self-managed
Made in Germany (Hamburg) Not stated
Task planning Yes, kanban, lists and timeline/Gantt Yes, an agile planning framework with epics, issues and tasks, kanban boards, milestones, roadmaps, issue weights, promotion of an issue to an epic and a planning hierarchy for portfolio work
Resource planning Yes, resource and capacity planning Limited. Work is assigned to people and weighted, and weights roll up to the parent item as a measure of time, value or complexity, but GitLab's planning documentation describes no capacity, availability or workload view per person
Time tracking Yes, in the app and from calendar appointments Yes, hours spent on issues, merge requests, epics and tasks, with estimates, detailed reports and standardised time units
Reporting and controlling Yes, dashboards, reporting and analytics Yes, burnup and burndown charts, drill-down reports, code and productivity analytics, insights and health reporting, DORA4 metrics and the Value Streams Dashboard
Integrations and API Yes, API Yes, APIs, webhooks and integrations, described by GitLab as how other tools plug into the platform
AI features Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based more entries Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise
Support more entries Email helpdesk, Chat, Phone Email helpdesk, Community forum
Onboarding Guided onboarding more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Video tutorials
Company size Freelancers, Small and mid-sized Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Integrations Slack, Salesforce, Google Sheets, MOCO, sevdesk, Lexware Office, easybill, bexio, Xero, API more entries Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Confluence, Jenkins, Datadog, GitHub, Asana, Linear, Redmine, Google Chat, Mattermost, Discord, Google Play, Apple App Store Connect, GitGuardian

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The short version

Key Differences

  • Starting price awork From €5 / user / month GitLab Free plan; Premium $29 / user / month
  • Free trial awork 14 days GitLab Free plan
  • Deployment awork Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based GitLab Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise
  • Company size awork Freelancers, Small and mid-sized GitLab Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
  • Hosting awork EU (Germany, Frankfurt), ISO/IEC 27001 certified, GDPR-compliant GitLab GitLab.com SaaS, single-tenant Dedicated or self-managed

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

awork

Strengths

  • Purpose-built for agency workflows
  • Easy, enjoyable UI
  • German hosting, ISO 27001 and GDPR
  • Free external collaboration

Limitations

  • No built-in invoicing/accounting (needs integrations)
  • Less suited to enterprise-wide or complex long-term planning

GitLab

Strengths

  • Planning, source control, CI/CD and security in one platform
  • Self-managed and single-tenant Dedicated options besides the SaaS
  • Time tracking on issues, merge requests, epics and tasks is built in

Limitations

  • The free plan is capped at five users per top-level group
  • Compute minutes, storage and AI credits are billed on top of seats
  • Portfolio and value stream features sit in the upper plans

Plans

Pricing

awork

  • Basic €5 Per user and month, billed annually. €8 billed monthly.
  • Standard €12 Per user and month, billed annually. €16 billed monthly.
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GitLab

  • Free $0 Five users per top-level group, 400 compute minutes a month and 10 GiB of storage, with source code management, CI/CD and static application security testing.
  • Premium $29 Per user and month, billed annually. Unlimited licensed users, 10,000 compute minutes a month, 500 GiB of storage, advanced CI/CD, team project management, SLA management and priority support.
  • Ultimate Custom Priced on request. Adds unlimited guest users, 50,000 compute minutes a month, application security testing, supply chain security, vulnerability management, portfolio management, value stream management and compliance features.
  • Enterprise Agile Planning $15 Per user and month on Ultimate, an add-on seat for product managers and other non-technical stakeholders.
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What users say

Review Scores · opens after launch

awork

Ease of use
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User interface
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Onboarding
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GitLab

Ease of use
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User interface
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Onboarding
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Support and service
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Value for money
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Features
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Where this comes from

Where this comes from

awork https://www.awork.com · checked against the official source on 2026-08-14

GitLab https://about.gitlab.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-13

This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.