CAST Highlight vs GitLab comparison

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between CAST Highlight and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed CAST Highlight vs. GitLab Report (Updated: July 2024).

CAST Highlight vs. GitLab

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Categories and Ranking

CAST Highlight

Ranking in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

13th

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

GitLab

Ranking in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (6th), Build Automation (1st), Release Automation (2nd), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (6th), Rapid Application Development Software (10th), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (2nd), Fuzz Testing Tools (2nd), DevSecOps (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2024, in the Software Composition Analysis (SCA) category, the mindshare of CAST Highlight is 1.4%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of GitLab is 6.5%, up from 5.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Unique Categories:

No other categories found

Application Security Tools

3.9%

Build Automation

23.6%

Featured Reviews

Vishal-Goyal

Chief Architect at Peristent Systems

Nov 15, 2022

Excellent support, works seamlessly with most languages, and useful for knowing about the readiness of the codebase for cloud migration

Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. Both are licensed separately. As per CAST, Highlight is for RAPID prototyping and AIP is for in depth detailed analysis. But then there are areas which Highlights covers (Cloud Adoption) which AIP does not. Our experience in using AIP is that it also does not look at entire tech stack and does not provide the list of all technologies present in your application and then flag what is supported and what is not so that customer has clear view. Highlight probably does that. They need to simplify it for customers. I would expect CAST Highlight to have lighter version of the Health dashboard and the Engineering dashboards . These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time.

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MohamedElazzouzi

Manager de production SI technique et corporate at inwi

Dec 20, 2022

I like the security features and SAS tools

I use GitLab to manage repository code sources, scanning code sources, and CI/CD. We have around 100 users GitLab helps us integrate with many types of software. You can deploy and integrate source code, various tools, webhooks, etc. I like GitLab's security and SAS tools. GitLab could add a…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The way it tells you which codebase is more ready for the cloud and which codebase is less ready is very valuable. It works seamlessly with most languages."

"The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."

"The most valuable features of the CAST Highlight are the interface and there are three notations that are very simple to understand and communicate with."

"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard."

"It offers good performance."

"The solution's most valuable features are pipelines."

"This product is always evolving, and they listen to the customers."

"The solution has an established roadmap that lays out its plans for upgrades over the next two to three years."

"The initial setup of GitLab is pretty simple, with no complications."

"I find the features and version control history to be most valuable for our development workflow. These aspects provide us with a clear view of changes and help us manage requests efficiently."

"We use GitLab in the new project for CI/CD, integration, and deployment."

"Their CI/CD engine is very mature. It's very comprehensive and flexible, and compared to other projects, I believe that GitLab is number one right now from that perspective."

"GitLab offers a good interface for doing code reviews between two colleagues."

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Cons

"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."

"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."

"Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. I would expect CAST Highlight to have the Help dashboard and the Engineering dashboard. These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time."

"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."

"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."

"It has fewer options, and its UI is not so user-friendly."

"It would be really good if they integrated more features in application security."

"In the free version, when a merge request is raised, there is no way to enforce certain rules. We can't enforce that this merge request must be reviewed or approved by two or three people in the team before it is pushed to the master branch. That's why we are exploring using some agents."

"It would be better if there weren't any outages. There are occasions where we usually see a lot of outages using GitLab. It happens at least once a week or something like that. Whatever pipelines you're running, to check the logs, you need to have a different set of tools like Argus or something like that. If you have pipelines running on GitLab, you need a separate service deployed to view the logs, which is kind of a pain. If the logs can be used conveniently on GitLab, that would be definitely helpful. I'm not talking about the CI/CD pipelines but the back-end services and microservices deployed over GitLab. To view the logs for those microservices, you need to have separate log viewers, which is kind of a pain."

"We are having a few problems integrating with Jira at the moment, which is something that our IT department is investigating."

"Reporting could be improved."

"GitLab's UI could be improved."

"I used Spring Cloud config and to connect that to GitLab was so hard."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"CAST Highlight is an expensive solution."

"Basic support is included with the standard licensing feed but it can be upgraded for an additional cost."

"CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. However, CAST Highlight is less expensive than the CAST AIP, but it remains too expensive and the professional services from CAST are also too expensive. The high price is part of the problem with the CAST solutions."

"It is a pretty costly tool. A lot of customers are resistant to using it."

"My company uses the free version of GitLab, which is GitLab Community Edition. There is a licensed version also available for GitLab."

"The initial setup cost is excellent and you can add the premium features later."

"It is very expensive. We can't bear it now, and we have to find another solution. We have a yearly subscription in which we can increase the number of licenses, but we have to pay at the end of the year."

"GitLab is a free solution to use."

"I don't mind the price because I use the free version."

"This is an open-source solution."

"I'm not sure if they have some kind of discount. I've been negotiating with them on prices before, and I believe they weren't too happy to give discounts, but list prices are $19 per user, per month for Premium and $99 per user, per month for Ultimate. So, the difference between Premium and Ultimate is a bit bigger, and in most companies, you need to build some type of business case."

"The open-source version is very good and the commercial version is reasonably priced."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

17%

Insurance Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Educational Organization

27%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CAST Highlight?

The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CAST Highlight?

CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight or nine out of ten.

What needs improvement with CAST Highlight?

The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight.

What do you like most about GitLab?

I find the features and version control history to be most valuable for our development workflow. These aspects provide us with a clear view of changes and help us manage requests efficiently.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GitLab?

For small-scale usage, GitLab offers a free tier. For enterprise pricing, GitLab is more expensive than GitHub, as it's not as widely adopted. GitLab is the preferred choice for many developers des...

What needs improvement with GitLab?

I believe there's room for improvement in the advanced features, particularly in enhancing the pipeline functionalities. Better integration and usability within the pipeline could make a significan...

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Overview

CAST Highlight is a SaaS software intelligence product for performing rapid application portfolio analysis. It automatically analyzes source code of hundreds of applications in a week for Cloud Readiness, Software Composition Analysis (Open Source risks), Resiliency, and Technical Debt. Objective software insights from automated source code analysis combined with built-in qualitative surveys for business context enable more informed decision-making about application portfolios.

CAST is the software intelligence category leader. CAST technology can see inside custom applications with MRI-like precision, automatically generating intelligence about their inner workings - composition, architecture, transaction flows, cloud readiness, structural flaws, legal and security risks. It’s becoming essential for faster modernization for cloud, raising the speed and efficiency of Software Engineering, better open source risk control, and accurate technical due diligence. CAST operates globally with offices in North America, Europe, India, China. Visit www.castsoftware.com.

GitLab is a complete DevOps platform that enables teams to collaborate and deliver software faster.

It provides a single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle, from planning and development to testing, deployment, and monitoring.

With GitLab, teams can streamline their workflows, automate processes, and improve productivity.

Sample Customers

Wells Fargo, Bank of NY Mellon, Northern Trust, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, BMW, AT&T, US Army, US Air Force, US Navy, John Hancock, Marsh & McLennan, Ernst & Young, PwC, Volkswagen, Boston Consulting Group, London Stock Exchange, Telefonica, Saur France, Total Energies France, SNCF

1. NASA 2. IBM 3. Sony 4. Alibaba 5. CERN 6. Siemens 7. Volkswagen 8. ING 9. Ticketmaster 10. SpaceX 11. Adobe 12. Intuit 13. Autodesk 14. Rakuten 15. Unity Technologies 16. Pandora 17. Electronic Arts 18. Nordstrom 19. Verizon 20. Comcast 21. Philips 22. Deutsche Telekom 23. Orange 24. Fujitsu 25. Ericsson 26. Nokia 27. General Electric 28. Cisco 29. Accenture 30. Deloitte 31. PwC 32. KPMG

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