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GitLab scales to 50,000+ users on SaaS with similar compliance certifications. For on-premise deployments, GitLab's Community Edition scales with commodity hardware; Azure DevOps Server requires significant infrastructure investment ($6K+/year licensing plus on-premise costs). 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