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Source control hosting

Asked as “source control hosting platform”, and as “Git hosting service”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 49 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
78%
Clear leader
78GitHub16GitLab06Bitbucket

78% of first choices, clear leader.

Since October 2026▲+8Since October 2026: 70% → 78%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.GitHub held the lead, +8 points on 70%, inside the 11-point floor.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince October 2026
01GitHub78%10%86endorsed leader▲+8Since October 2026: 70% → 78%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.70% → 78%
02GitLab16%11%85accepted challenger▼−5Since October 2026: 21% → 16%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.21% → 16%
03Bitbucket6%25%80criticized challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 4% → 6%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.4% → 6%
Show the five products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
05Azure DevOps0%21%33accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%
08Azure Repos0%15%13accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%
04Gitea0%10%30accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%
07Codeberg0%6%16accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
06Forgejo0%5%20accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one can't be told apart from repeat variation, and both are shown. Each index measures its own floor from its own repeat, over its own categories, so the floor differs from one index to the next. Both editions asked the same fourteen models. How the floor is measured

Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.

One product takes 78% of first choices here, so the chart would put seven markers in one corner and one at the far edge. The two measurements it plots are columns in the standing above: share, and the negative label rate. One product carries a negative rate above 25% in this category.

What they warned about

Nine of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, Qwen 3.7 Flash and GLM 4.7 FlashX changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Bitbucket
25%
20 of 80 labels negative · 11 of 14 models · 3 hard negative
“Bitbucket Server (the self-hosted on-premise product discontinued by Atlassian in Feb 2024) are either completely shut down or no longer supported.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
GitHub
10%
9 of 86 labels negative · 9 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“GitHub is a platform that some people recommend avoiding due to various concerns such as privacy risks, copyright issues, and being owned by Microsoft” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt
SourceForge
100%
9 of 9 labels negative · 8 of 14 models · 5 hard negative
“It is generally considered risky for both open-source and closed-source projects” Mistral Small, negative prompt
GitLab
11%
9 of 85 labels negative · 8 of 14 models
“Hosting your own Git platform using open-source tools like Gitea, Forgejo, Gogs, or GitLab Community Edition is great for data privacy, but comes with operational risks” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt

What they cite

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted.

Sites the answers cite

67 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 698 links across 256 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. 56 of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category; the method page measures whether that reading tilts an answer.

vendor site · GitHub28 answers · 50 citations · 13 models
vendor site · Bitbucket19 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
publisher (Gane)19 answers · 20 citations · 9 models
vendor site · G218 answers · 22 citations · 8 models
vendor site · GitLab16 answers · 22 citations · 7 models
14 answers · 14 citations · 10 models
13 answers · 24 citations · 9 models
13 answers · 13 citations · 8 models
13 answers · 13 citations · 6 models
vendor site · GitHub12 answers · 19 citations · 7 models
vendor site · SourceForge10 answers · 15 citations · 5 models
9 answers · 12 citations · 5 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best source control hosting platform”, “source control hosting platform”, “source control hosting platforms”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
GitHub github.com78%2161,500,00031,47942,019,137$8114
GitLab gitlab.com16%19690,5004,844603,028$884664
Bitbucket bitbucket.org6%18133,1001,56022,601
Gitea gitea.com
Gitea 0%, Gitea/Forgejo 0%
0%629,9001937,814
Azure parent site
Azure DevOps 0%, Azure Repos 0%
0%162301,00047,904
Forgejo forgejo.org0%405,400552,9874
Codeberg codeberg.org0%298,1003332,214
SourceHut0%5904
Perforce Helix Core perforce.com0%1326011161,450$2,860100
GitLab self-hosted0%

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 13 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (about.gitlab.com, en.wikipedia.org, reddit.com). The first result for “best source control hosting platform” is reddit.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best source control hosting platform for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which Git hosting service would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top source control hosting platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best source control hosting platform for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a source control hosting platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which source control hosting platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceGitHubChanged
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Four alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab, Gitea
GitHub, GitLab
Three alternativesBitbucket, Forgejo, Gitea
no first choiceagainst: GitHub, Gitea
GPT-5.4 miniGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Four alternativesAWS CodeCommit, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab
against: SourceForge
GitHub
One alternativeGitLab
no first choiceagainst: Bitbucket, GitLab
Gemini 3.5 FlashGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: Azure DevOps
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Five alternativesAzure DevOps, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab, Perforce Helix Core
GitHub
Five alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, Forgejo, GitLab, Gitea
no first choiceagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, CodePlex, Forgejo, GitLab, Gitea, Gitee, Gitorious, Gogs, Google Code, SourceForge
Perplexity SonarGitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Five alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo, Perforce Helix Core
GitHub
Two alternativesForgejo, Gitea
against: GitLab
no first choiceagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Codeberg, SourceHut
Grok 4.20GitHub
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, GitLab
against: Bitbucket
GitLabChanged
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub
GitHub
Four alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, Codeberg, GitLab
against: AWS CodeCommit
GitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
against: Beanstalk
GitHub, GitLab
Two alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket
against: Bitbucket, GitHub, SourceForge
Mistral SmallGitHubno first choiceChangedGitHub
Five alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, Codeberg, GitLab, Gitea
GitHub
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitLab, Gitea
no first choiceagainst: Azure DevOps, Bitbucketagainst: Bitbucket, GitHub, SourceForge
DeepSeek V4 FlashGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: Azure DevOps
GitHubHeld
One alternativeGitLab
against: Bitbucket
GitHub
Five alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, Codeberg, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo
against: SourceForge
GitHub
One alternativeGitLab
against: Bitbucket
no first choiceagainst: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, Gitorious, Google Code, Launchpad, SourceForge
Llama 4 MaverickGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, Gitea
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
no first choiceagainst: GitHub
Qwen 3.7 FlashGitHub, GitLab
One alternativeBitbucket
GitHubChanged
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
no first choiceGitHub
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, Gitea
GitHub, GitLab
One alternativeBitbucket
against: AWS CodeCommit, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, Launchpad, SourceForge
Kimi K2GitHub
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, GitLab
GitHubHeld
One alternativeGitLab
against: Bitbucket
GitHub
Four alternativesAWS CodeCommit, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitLab, Gitea
GitHub, GitLab
One alternativeBitbucket
against: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
GLM 4.7 FlashXBitbucket
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab
GitLabChanged
One alternativeGitHub
against: Bitbucket
GitHub
Six alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, Codeberg, Forgejo, GitLab, Gitea
against: Gerrit, SourceForge
Bitbucket
Three alternativesForgejo, GitHub, Gitea
against: GitLab
no first choiceagainst: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
MiniMax M2.5GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitLab, Gitea
Bitbucket, GitLab
Two alternativesCodeberg, GitHub
no first choiceagainst: Azure DevOps, Bitbucketagainst: Bitbucket, GitHub
GPT-6 LunaGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Five alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, Forgejo, GitLab, Gitea
GitHub
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket
against: GitLab
no first choiceagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Google Cloud Source Repositories, JetBrains Space, Launchpad Bazaar hosting
Muse Glimmer 30BGitHub
One alternativeGitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Five alternativesAzure DevOps, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, Codeberg, GitLab
GitHub
Four alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, Forgejo, Gitea
no first choiceagainst: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, SourceForge
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-11-01 09:21no04 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-11-01 12:13yes35 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version)2026-11-01 14:35no018 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-11-01 08:37yes104 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai2026-11-01 14:41yes521 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-11-01 10:44yes53 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-11-01 12:15yes2524 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-11-01 16:12yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-11-01 09:00no031 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-11-01 10:58yes1035 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-11-01 16:20yes15108 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-11-01 12:46yes527 s
Direct recommendationGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-11-01 09:15yes316 s
Direct recommendationMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-11-01 18:12yes1317 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-11-01 18:35no05 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-11-01 17:31yes45 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version)2026-11-01 19:40no016 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-11-01 12:15yes103 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai2026-11-01 19:20yes513 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-11-01 10:03no01 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-11-01 09:16yes2424 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-11-01 11:37yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-11-01 12:33yes513 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-11-01 15:17no019 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-11-01 15:53yes1577 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-11-01 15:17no056 s
ParaphraseGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-11-01 12:31yes37 s
ParaphraseMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-11-01 09:53yes1418 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-11-01 10:07yes99 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-11-01 10:23no05 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version)2026-11-01 12:39yes720 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-11-01 11:21yes105 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai2026-11-01 17:39yes510 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-11-01 19:10yes56 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-11-01 09:14yes2028 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-11-01 13:08yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-11-01 19:02yes525 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-11-01 10:07yes1441 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-11-01 15:57yes1537 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-11-01 16:50yes1025 s
ComparativeGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-11-01 11:43yes616 s
ComparativeMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-11-01 12:09yes1527 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-11-01 18:25no05 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-11-01 13:46yes24 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version)2026-11-01 10:02yes1221 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-11-01 19:19yes103 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai2026-11-01 19:00yes510 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-11-01 10:14yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-11-01 08:39yes2320 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-11-01 11:31yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-11-01 17:31no030 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-11-01 14:27yes1018 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-11-01 19:13yes2556 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-11-01 15:22yes1028 s
Budget constrainedGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-11-01 14:20yes411 s
Budget constrainedMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-11-01 13:02yes1524 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-11-01 12:06no08 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-11-01 11:39no05 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version)2026-11-01 12:45no018 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-11-01 09:29yes108 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai2026-11-01 16:56yes512 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-11-01 14:40no06 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-11-01 11:47yes2030 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-11-01 18:58yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-11-01 14:23no029 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-11-01 14:50yes2532 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-11-01 09:58yes2540 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-11-01 13:18no028 s
Scale constrainedGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-11-01 19:26yes114 s
Scale constrainedMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-11-01 11:05yes1521 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-11-01 09:49yes1810 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-11-01 09:20yes45 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version)2026-11-01 10:46yes419 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-11-01 13:45yes104 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai2026-11-01 17:53yes59 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-11-01 09:06yes55 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-11-01 19:28yes2553 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-11-01 12:21yes52 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-11-01 12:14yes540 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-11-01 12:40yes1318 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-11-01 11:55yes2430 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-11-01 19:27yes1026 s
Negative framingGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-11-01 12:36yes416 s
Negative framingMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-11-01 19:20yes2432 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Atlassian read as Bitbucket
GitHub Enterprise Server read as GitHub
GitLab SaaS read as GitLab
GitLab Self-Managed read as GitLab
GitLab Ultimate read as GitLab
Perforce read as Perforce Helix Core
Self-hosted GitLab read as GitLab
Unresolved, counted raw
Beanstalk
GitLab self-hosted
Launchpad Bazaar hosting
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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