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Bitbucket vs GitLab: which is more reliable? (2026)
Bitbucket and GitLab are effectively tied on reliability (81.2 vs 81.2). Over the last 90 days Bitbucket reported 5 incidents and GitLab reported 10, with effective uptime of 99.74% and 100% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Bitbucket | GitLab |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 81.2 | 81.2 |
| Rank (code hosting & CI platforms) | #4 | #3 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.74% | 100% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 5 | 10 |
| Partial / major outages | 3 | 4 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 58m | — |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Bitbucket and GitLab differ
- GitLab reported 2× as many incidents as Bitbucket over the last 90 days (10 vs 5).
- GitLab had 4 partial or major outages, compared with 3 for Bitbucket.
90-day uptime
Bitbucket
GitLab
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Bitbucket incidents
- Major outageOct 21, 2026 · resolved in 40m
Disrupted Bitbucket availabilityofficial update ↗
Affected: Website, API, Git via SSH, Authentication and user management, Git via HTTPS, Webhooks +7 more
- Major outageOct 15, 2026 · resolved in 2h 1m
Bitbucket Cloud - Service Disruptionofficial update ↗
Affected: Website, API, Pipelines
- Partial outageOct 1, 2026 · resolved in 4h 56m
Job processing and scheduling is degraded affecting multiple Atlassian productsofficial update ↗
Affected: Pipelines
- Degraded performanceSep 16, 2026 · resolved in 44m
Delays with Bitbucket Pipelines Execution
Affected: Pipelines
- Degraded performanceSep 11, 2026 · resolved in 1h 28m
Intermittent reliability issue with Bitbucket Cloud
Affected: Website, API, Git via SSH, Git via HTTPS, Pipelines
Recent GitLab incidents
- Major outageOct 31, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceOct 23, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceOct 21, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceOct 16, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Partial outageOct 16, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Other code hosting & CI platforms to consider
- Bitrise · #1 · 99.90% uptime
- Depot · #2 · 99.89% uptime
- Buildkite · #5 · 99.57% uptime
- CircleCI · #6 · 99.19% uptime
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