What is the difference between Gitlab and GitHub?

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Doesn't it sound very similar? However, there are trucks of differences between these two friends. A glance over a few aspects would help us get a better view of the contradiction.
GitHub-A software development and distributed version control host; it offers the provision in source code management, whereas GitLab is a DevOps lifecycle tool(now Agile as well) which yields Git repository manager for issue tracking and continuous pipelining. Both Gitlab and GitHub collaborate on code and also offer a simple issue tracker that enable status and assignee change for various issues.

Most of us are aware that GitHub public repositories are freely available to a vast audience(of course developers)-an open-source software. The recent release by GitHub gives you a provision of integrated CI/CD tool to automate the tests and buckle up the development process. Tracking comment changes, navigation towards method/function in a changed file and triggering the pipeline are few of the exceptional features of GitHub.
Though GitHub makes a continuous effort to prove itself, the amenities that Gitlab provides, made a shout-out right from its birth.

The key endorsements of Gitlab that won the hearts of developers over GitHub include the following:

The Share Runners allow the usage of Gitlab CI/CD for free up to 2000 build minutes for private and unlimited for public projects.
You can import into, export projects and issues from various sources such as Bitbucket, GitHub, google code, etc. and self-learn with the documentation and guides.
Project issues, Milestones and Iterations can be carefully scrutinized in sync with your Agile project development.
Gitlab is now available for the Agile operations; the highlighting features like Environment Auto-stop, single integrated tool, value stream analytics and self-monitoring would switch the excitement mode on if you're a developer.
If you're struggling with feedback, fixture and preview changes, Gitlab's Web IDE helps you stay in touch with your client Merge request and Gitlab CI.