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Depot vs GitLab: which is more reliable? (2026)
Depot is more reliable than GitLab, scoring 85.5 vs 81.2 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Depot reported 9 incidents and GitLab reported 10, with effective uptime of 99.89% and 100% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Depot | GitLab |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 85.5 | 81.2 |
| Rank (code hosting & CI platforms) | #2 | #3 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.89% | 100% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 9 | 10 |
| Partial / major outages | 4 | 4 |
| Avg time to resolve | 1h 6m | — |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Depot and GitLab differ
- GitLab reported 11% more incidents than Depot over the last 90 days (10 vs 9).
90-day uptime
Depot
GitLab
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Depot incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 29, 2026 · resolved in 3h 2m
Affected: us-east-1, Depot CI
- Partial outageOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 1h 55m
Affected: us-east-1, Depot CI
- Degraded performanceOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 1h 41m
Slow disk I/O for US container builds
Affected: us-east-1
- Degraded performanceOct 5, 2026 · resolved in 1h 48m
Slow disk I/O for EU container builds
Affected: eu-central-1
- Degraded performanceSep 28, 2026 · resolved in 19m
Elevated queue times for Sandboxes and Depot CI Jobs
Affected: Depot CI
- Partial outageSep 20, 2026 · resolved in 6m
Affected: us-east-1, Depot CI
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
- Bitbucket · #4 · 99.74% uptime
- Buildkite · #5 · 99.57% uptime
- CircleCI · #6 · 99.19% uptime
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