Create merge requests, assign reviewers, leave inline comments, and enforce mandatory review workflows before any code reaches your main branch.

Every commit references a ticket. Developers update task status directly from their IDE or terminal. Project managers see progress without asking for updates.

Control who can push, merge, or approve changes on protected branches. Role-based access controls let you enforce exactly the right permissions for each team.

Assembla scans every commit for hardcoded secrets, API keys, and passwords. We flag vulnerabilities before they reach production, not after.

Git repositories deploy in the AWS region closest to your team: US, EU, and APAC. Automated hourly backups and failover within 30 minutes of any incident.

Connect Git to Slack, Zapier, Jenkins, and Travis CI out of the box. The Assembla API lets you build custom workflows and automations for your specific pipeline.

Enforce commit standards at the server level. Reject commits without a ticket reference, block empty commits, or trigger automated tests on every merge request. No developer can bypass them.

Teams with strict data residency or compliance requirements run Assembla in a fully isolated single-tenant environment. Your repositories share infrastructure with no one.

Assembla is the right GitLab alternative for teams that find GitLab too complex, too expensive, or too DevOps-heavy for their actual workflow. GitLab is a full DevSecOps platform built around CI/CD pipelines. Assembla focuses on source code management and project management, with Git, SVN, and Perforce under one roof. Teams that need multi-VCS support, built-in Agile project management, and straightforward pricing without a DevOps platform they will not use find Assembla a better fit. Both offer SOC 2 certification and GDPR compliance.

Yes. Teams with air-gapped environments, strict data residency mandates, or internal security policies that rule out standard cloud hosting can deploy Assembla Git on their own infrastructure or in a dedicated single-tenant cloud environment. Assembla handles the full deployment, management, and support. Compliance requirements define the architecture.

Yes. Git LFS is included in every Assembla Cloud plan at no extra cost. Starter includes 10GB storage per user and Growth includes 50GB. Assembla charges no separate LFS storage fees and no bandwidth overages. For teams where Git LFS creates performance bottlenecks on very large binary repos, Assembla also hosts Perforce Helix Core and SVN on the same platform.

Yes. Assembla is the only cloud platform that hosts Git, SVN, and Perforce in a single environment with shared project management. Developers run Git for application code. Artists or engineers run Perforce or SVN for binary assets. All three share the same access controls, tickets, and sprint planning tools, with no custom integration required.

Assembla is the strongest GitHub alternative for three specific situations: your team uses SVN or Perforce alongside Git and GitHub no longer supports SVN; your workflow needs project management built in and you are paying separately for Jira; or you need SOC 2 compliant Git hosting with predictable per-user pricing and no hidden storage fees. GitHub is the better choice for open-source collaboration and large developer ecosystems. Assembla is the better choice for cross-functional teams building complex, creative, or compliance-sensitive software.

Yes. Assembla server-side hooks enforce commit standards across the entire team at the repository level. Available hooks reject commits without a ticket reference, block empty commits, reject commits matching specific message patterns, and trigger automated tests on merge requests. Because these hooks run server-side, no developer can bypass them by changing their local Git configuration.

Starter costs $10.35/user/month billed annually and includes Git and SVN hosting, Git LFS, 10GB storage per user, and no infrastructure to manage. Growth costs $15.75/user/month billed annually and adds full project management and 50GB storage per user. Both plans include a 14-day free trial with no credit card required.

Assembla includes sprint planning, cardwalls, ticketing, burndown charts, milestones, time tracking, and wikis natively alongside every Git repository. Commits link directly to tickets. Developers update task status from their terminal. Project managers track velocity and progress without leaving the platform, and without a Jira subscription.