# GitLab CI/CD vs Nx

| Attribute | GitLab CI/CD | Nx |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 59.8 (66% (medium)) | 59 (30% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 24,549 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"GitLab's CI/CD system is a core component of its broader DevSecOps platform. It automates the entire pipeline from code commit to production deployment, with integrated security testing (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning) and compliance controls built directly into each build. It is indexed under CI/CD Tools.","source":"https://about.gitlab.com/es/pricing/","question":"What is GitLab CI/CD?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"GitLab CI/CD offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $29 per user per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://about.gitlab.com/es/pricing/","question":"Is GitLab CI/CD free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"GitLab CI/CD supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://about.gitlab.com/es/pricing/","question":"What platforms does GitLab CI/CD support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. GitLab CI/CD can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://about.gitlab.com/es/pricing/","question":"Can GitLab CI/CD be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 3 integrations for GitLab CI/CD, including AWS Marketplace, Google Cloud Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://about.gitlab.com/es/pricing/","question":"What does GitLab CI/CD integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for GitLab CI/CD. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as GitLab CI/CD not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://about.gitlab.com/security/","question":"What security certifications does GitLab CI/CD have?","confidence":0.7}]` | `[{"answer":"An open-source monorepo platform that optimizes build performance through intelligent caching and distributed task execution across machines. Includes AI-powered CI capabilities to detect and fix pipeline failures automatically. It is indexed under CI/CD Tools.","source":"https://nx.dev/pricing","question":"What is Nx?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Nx offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $29 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://nx.dev/pricing","question":"Is Nx free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Nx supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://nx.dev/pricing","question":"What platforms does Nx support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Nx can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://nx.dev/pricing","question":"Can Nx be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 14 integrations for Nx, including Cursor, GitHub Copilot, JetBrains, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket and VS Code, plus 6 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://nx.dev/pricing","question":"What does Nx integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Nx is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://nx.dev/pricing","question":"Where is Nx available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An integrated platform combining source control, continuous integration/deployment, and built-in security scanning to automate the entire software delivery lifecycle with support for both cloud and self-hosted deployments. | Nx is a build system and CI platform optimized for monorepos and polyglot codebases. It accelerates builds through intelligent caching and task deduplication, distributes work across machines, and provides integrated CI with security features. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","marketplace":true,"yaml_pipelines":true,"container_native":true,"secrets_management":true,"deploy_environments":true,"self_hosted_runners":true}` | `{"caching":true,"hosting":"both","marketplace":true,"open_source":true,"matrix_builds":true,"remote_caching":true,"yaml_pipelines":true,"code_generators":true,"monorepo_native":true,"container_native":true,"polyglot_support":true,"remote_execution":true,"affected_detection":true,"incremental_builds":true,"secrets_management":true,"deploy_environments":true,"self_hosted_runners":true,"task_dag_orchestration":true,"distributed_remote_execution":true,"dependency_graph_visualization":true}` |
| integrations.count | 14 | 18 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"AWS Marketplace"},{"name":"Google Cloud Marketplace"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"deployment","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Docker","native":true,"category":"containers"},{"name":"LDAP","native":true,"category":"identity","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"OAuth","native":true,"category":"identity","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Jenkins","native":true,"category":"ci_cd","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Jira","native":true,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"SAML","native":true,"category":"authentication","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Anchore","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Prisma Cloud","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Checkmarx","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"CodeSecure","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Fortify","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Venafi","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Veracode","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Akismet","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"reCAPTCHA","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"inbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot"},{"name":"JetBrains"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"GitHub","native":true,"category":"scm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"GitLab","native":true,"category":"scm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure DevOps","native":true,"category":"ci","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Bitbucket","native":true,"category":"scm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"VS Code","native":true,"category":"editor","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"JetBrains IntelliJ","native":true,"category":"editor","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Claude","native":false,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Vite","native":true,"category":"build","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Webpack","native":true,"category":"build","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Jest","native":true,"category":"testing","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"ESLint","native":true,"category":"linting","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Gradle","native":true,"category":"build","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Vitest","native":true},{"name":"Maven","native":true},{"name":".NET","native":true},{"name":"Go","native":true},{"name":"Angular","native":true},{"name":"React","native":true},{"name":"Python","native":false},{"name":"Rust","native":false},{"name":"PHP","native":false}]` |
| language.primary | Ruby | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free","features":["Source Code Management","CI/CD"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"GitLab Duo Agent Platform Credits","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"credit"},"kind":"metered","amount":1,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier available. Premium and Ultimate tiers available with expanded features.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-15T09:24:10.613Z","billingPeriods":["year"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Hobby","summary":"Free forever","features":["50,000 monthly credits","5 complimentary contributors","10 concurrent CI connections","All Nx Agents resource types","Basic analytics","Community support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Free plan for individual developers and small teams","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"contributors":"5","monthly_credits":"50000","concurrent_ci_connections":"10"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$29/month","features":["All Hobby features","$29 monthly usage credit included","Email support","Additional credits at $5.50 per 10,000","Additional contributors at $19 each","Additional concurrent connections at $2.25 each"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For teams needing consistent performance without usage caps","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"monthly_credit_allocation":"29"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["All Team features","Conformance rules and circular dependency detection","Cross-repository visibility","CI observability and premium analytics","Dedicated support with SLAs","Isolated and self-hosted deployment options","Volume credit discounts","SSO / SAML authentication"],"description":"Custom enterprise pricing with advanced features and dedicated support","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Extra credits","components":[{"per":{"qty":10000,"unit":"credits"},"kind":"metered","amount":5.5,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Additional contributor","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"contributor","amount":19,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Additional concurrent CI connection","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"connection","amount":2.25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Dedicated Compute Cluster with Sandboxing and Docker support","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free tier available. Paid plans from $29/month with usage-based add-ons.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://nx.dev/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-18T12:38:08.987Z","startingPrice":{"amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":29,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO/IEC 27001:2022","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO/IEC 27017:2015","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO/IEC 27018:2019","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 2.2 | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | https://about.gitlab.com/security/ | https://nx.dev/enterprise/security |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fgitlabhq%2Fgitlabhq&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (CI/CD Tools)

| Capability | GitLab CI/CD | Nx |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |
| Self-hosted runners | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Core** |  |  |
| Config-as-code pipelines | ✓ | ✓ |
| Matrix / parallel builds | - | ✓ |
| **Build** |  |  |
| Container-native builds | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Performance** |  |  |
| Build caching | - | ✓ |
| **Security** |  |  |
| Secrets management | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Delivery** |  |  |
| Deployment environments & approvals | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Ecosystem** |  |  |
| Reusable actions / marketplace | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-18T00:52:57.489Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*