emerging · 1.3 market industry

GitLab

Score 23.1 / 100 3 providers +17 via APIs 17 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (3)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
GitLabCodeDeveloper ToolsPlatformSoftware Development13 APIs75.0
Developing 1 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
GitLab CI/CDDevOpsCI/CDPipelines1 API45.1
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
GitLab Container RegistryContainer ImagesContainersRegistry1 API36.4

APIs with this tag (16)

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Developing 3 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Lightdash Gitlab APIThe Gitlab API from Lightdash — 4 operation(s) for gitlab.48.1University of Bonn GitLab REST API v4The University of Bonn self-hosts GitLab at gitlab.uni-bonn.de and its REST API v4 answers anonymous caller...47.5Dokploy Gitlab APIThe gitlab API from Dokploy — 7 operation(s) for gitlab.47.4
Thin 10 Limited public surface area
BEAR GitLab (self-hosted, /api/v4)A GitLab instance the University runs itself on the BEAR (Birmingham Environment for Academic Research) est...38.3TU Berlin GitLab APISelf-hosted GitLab Enterprise Edition for TU Berlin. Correcting the June 2026 profile, which recorded this ...38.0Tsinghua University GitLabTsinghua runs its own GitLab instance at git.tsinghua.edu.cn, on its own registrable domain and behind its ...37.7USTC Campus GitLabA GitLab instance USTC runs on its own domain at git.ustc.edu.cn, with a second LUG-operated instance at gi...34.2RRZE GitLab REST API (FAU self-hosted)RRZE runs FAU's self-hosted GitLab at gitlab.rrze.fau.de, and its v4 REST API answers anonymous reads. Veri...32.5Maastricht University GitLabSelf-hosted GitLab instance on the university's own domain, serving UM research and teaching projects. Its ...32.3UNIGE GitLab REST APIA self-hosted GitLab instance operated by the University on its own domain, serving an anonymous GitLab RES...31.9NJU e-Science Code Hosting (GitLab REST API v4)An institution-operated GitLab instance for NJU staff and students. Its REST API v4 is real and in producti...30.7HU Berlin GitLab (scm.cms.hu-berlin.de)HU's Computer- und Medienservice operates its own GitLab instance at scm.cms.hu-berlin.de, hosting institut...28.8GitLab APIRESTful API for GitLab's Git repository management.28.6
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
Unruly Gamelocker APIThe Gamelocker backend (gamelocker.unruly-studios.com) is a self-hosted GitLab instance that stores each le...26.0UC Engineering GitLab APISelf-hosted GitLab instance operated by the University of Canterbury College of Engineering on the institut...22.4Tekton Pipelines as CodePipelines as Code lets you store Tekton Pipeline definitions inside the same Git repository as your applica...22.3

Companies reaching this through an API (17)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “GitLab” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

API Style Guides Dokploy Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Git Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Lightdash Maastricht University Nanjing University Technical University of Berlin Tekton Tsinghua University University of Birmingham University of Bonn University of Canterbury University of Geneva University of Science and Technology of China Unruly Studios

Score breakdown

Frequency
37.1
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.1
spread across providers
Quality lift
64.0
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
6.4
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Source Control 7 co-occurrences GitHub 5 co-occurrences Research Computing 7 co-occurrences Repository 8 co-occurrences DSpace 5 co-occurrences DataCite 5 co-occurrences Shibboleth 9 co-occurrences Self-Hosted 5 co-occurrences

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