Source control hosting
Asked as “source control hosting platform”, and as “Git hosting service”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 47 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
74%
Clear leader
74GitHub19GitLab04Bitbucket02others
74% of first choices, clear leader.
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 twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Show the five products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
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.
All six head-to-head pages: the top four products, each against each
One product takes 74% of first choices here, so the chart would put eight 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 twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Perplexity Sonar and DeepSeek V4 Flash 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.
GitHub17%
12 of 72 labels negative · 11 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“GitHub is a platform that some users may want to avoid due to its controversies” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt
GitLab16%
11 of 70 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“The "Budget Trap" to Avoid: GitLab SaaS ... it is not budget-friendly for small, scaling teams” Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt
Bitbucket17%
12 of 69 labels negative · 8 of 12 models
“About one-third of Bitbucket incidents had major impact ... Atlassian struggled with high-severity flaws including CVSS scores over 9” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
SourceForge89%
8 of 9 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 7 hard negative
“Who should avoid it: Any modern engineering team looking for a standard DevSecOps development lifecycle.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
What they cite
Twelve of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited and eight the search results they consulted.
Sites the answers cite
61 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 778 links across 239 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.
vendor site · G223 answers · 33 citations · 10 models
19 answers · 19 citations · 7 models
19 answers · 19 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Guideflow18 answers · 18 citations · 9 models
18 answers · 18 citations · 9 models
17 answers · 18 citations · 9 models
15 answers · 29 citations · 7 models
14 answers · 23 citations · 10 models
13 answers · 16 citations · 6 models
13 answers · 14 citations · 7 models
11 answers · 11 citations · 9 models
vendor site · RhodeCode11 answers · 11 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.
19 answers · 7 models
19 answers · 8 models
18 answers · 9 models
18 answers · 9 models
14 answers · 8 models
12 answers · 6 models
11 answers · 8 models
11 answers · 9 models
10 answers · 5 models
10 answers · 4 models
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 products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub github.com | 74% | 216 | 1,500,000 | 31,479 | 42,019,137 | $81 | 14 | |
| GitLab gitlab.com | 19% | 196 | 90,500 | 4,844 | 603,028 | $884 | 66 | 4 |
| Bitbucket bitbucket.org | 4% | 181 | 33,100 | 1,560 | 22,601 | |||
| Gitea gitea.com Gitea 2%, Gitea/Forgejo 0% | 2% | 62 | 9,900 | 193 | 7,814 | |||
| Azure parent site Azure DevOps 0%, Azure Repos 0% | 0% | 162 | 301,000 | 47,904 | ||||
| Codeberg codeberg.org | 0% | 29 | 8,100 | 33 | 32,214 | |||
| Forgejo forgejo.org | 0% | 40 | 5,400 | 55 | 2,987 | 4 | ||
| SourceHut | 0% | 590 | 4 | |||||
| Gogs | 0% | |||||||
| Perforce Helix Core perforce.com | 0% | 13 | 260 | 11 | 161,450 | $2,860 | 100 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 13 sites; 2 of them are among the sites the models cited here (gitprotect.io, 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.ShowHide
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.
ShowHideModelDirect“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 4.5GitHubGitHub, GitLabChangedGitHubGitHubno first choiceagainst: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, Jira
Two alternatives
Bitbucket, GitLabThree alternatives
Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLabFour alternatives
Bitbucket, Forgejo, GitLab, GiteaGPT-5.4 miniGitHubGitHubHeldno first choiceGitHubno first choicenothing named
Two alternatives
Bitbucket, GitLabTwo alternatives
Bitbucket, GitLabThree alternatives
Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLabGemini 3.5 FlashGitHubGitHubHeldagainst: BitbucketGitHubagainst: AWS CodeCommitGitHubagainst: GitLabGitHub, GitLabagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, Forgejo, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Gitee, SourceForge
Two alternatives
Bitbucket, GitLabOne alternative
GitLabFive alternatives
Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Forgejo, GitLab, GiteaTwo alternatives
Bitbucket, Gitea/ForgejoTwo alternatives
Azure DevOps, BitbucketPerplexity SonarGitHubGitLabChangedGitHubGitHubno first choiceagainst: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, SourceForge
One alternative
BitbucketTwo alternatives
Bitbucket, GitHubFour alternatives
Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab, Gitea/ForgejoTwo alternatives
Bitbucket, GiteaGrok 4.20GitHubagainst: BitbucketGitHubHeldGitHubGitHubagainst: Gitea/Forgejono first choiceagainst: Bitbucket, Forgejo, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, SourceForge
One alternative
GitLabTwo alternatives
Bitbucket, GitLabThree alternatives
Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLabTwo alternatives
Bitbucket, GitLabTwo alternatives
GitHub, GitLabMistral SmallGitHubGitHubHeldGitHub, GitLabagainst: AWS CodeCommitBitbucketno first choiceagainst: Azure DevOps, GitHub
Two alternatives
Bitbucket, GitLabTwo alternatives
Bitbucket, GitLabFour alternatives
Azure Repos, Bitbucket, Gitea, GogsThree alternatives
Codeberg, GitHub, GitLabDeepSeek V4 FlashGitHub, GitLabagainst: AWS CodeCommitGitLabChangedGitHubGitHubagainst: GitLabGitHub, GitLabagainst: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Forgejo, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Google Code, Microsoft CodePlex, SourceForge
Three alternatives
Azure DevOps, Azure Repos, BitbucketTwo alternatives
Bitbucket, GitHubFour alternatives
AWS CodeCommit, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLabOne alternative
BitbucketThree alternatives
Azure Repos, Bitbucket, Gitea/ForgejoLlama 4 MaverickGitHubGitHubHeldGitHubGitHubno first choiceagainst: GitHub
Three alternatives
Bitbucket, GitLab, GiteaFour alternatives
Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab, GiteaThree alternatives
Bitbucket, CloudForge, GitLabQwen 3.7 FlashGitHubGitHubHeldGitHubagainst: SourceForgeGitHubagainst: GitLabno first choiceagainst: Bitbucket, GitHub, SourceForge
Two alternatives
Bitbucket, GitLabTwo alternatives
Bitbucket, GitLabThree alternatives
Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLabOne alternative
BitbucketKimi K2GitHubGitHubHeldagainst: BitbucketGitHub, GitLabGitHubagainst: BitbucketGitHub, GitLabagainst: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, Google Code, OSDN, Phabricator, SourceForge
Two alternatives
Bitbucket, GitLabOne alternative
GitLabOne alternative
BitbucketTwo alternatives
GitLab, Gitea/ForgejoTwo alternatives
Azure Repos, BitbucketGLM 4.7 FlashXGitHubGitHubHeldGitHubBitbucket, Giteaagainst: GitHubno first choiceagainst: Forgejo, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Google Code, SourceForge
Three alternatives
Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLabTwo alternatives
Bitbucket, GitLabFive alternatives
Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Forgejo, GitLab, GiteaTwo alternatives
Forgejo, GitLabMiniMax M2.5GitHub, GitLabGitHub, GitLabHeldGitHubGitHubno first choiceagainst: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
One alternative
BitbucketOne alternative
BitbucketTwo alternatives
Bitbucket, GitLabTwo alternatives
GitLab, GiteaBold 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.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 13:56 | yes | 9 | 8 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 12:36 | yes | 3 | 6 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 13:23 | yes | 14 | 26 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 09:48 | yes | 20 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 10:46 | yes | 17 | 12 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 09:34 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 10:10 | yes | 10 | 15 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 10:57 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 11:38 | yes | 10 | 33 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 13:16 | yes | 24 | 33 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 10:22 | yes | 8 | 34 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 10:14 | yes | 14 | 30 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 11:10 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 09:45 | yes | 3 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 11:27 | yes | 13 | 23 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 13:18 | yes | 20 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 13:56 | yes | 14 | 10 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 13:46 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 12:24 | yes | 10 | 12 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 12:15 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 10:59 | no | 0 | 37 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 10:00 | yes | 9 | 19 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 14:13 | yes | 15 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 11:29 | yes | 10 | 27 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 11:59 | yes | 9 | 11 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 10:18 | yes | 3 | 6 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 10:24 | yes | 13 | 23 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 13:22 | yes | 20 | 7 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 12:08 | yes | 14 | 9 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 13:15 | yes | 5 | 9 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 10:46 | yes | 10 | 15 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 13:40 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 11:30 | yes | 9 | 46 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 09:53 | yes | 10 | 42 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 09:52 | yes | 8 | 209 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 11:30 | yes | 5 | 16 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 09:44 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 12:42 | no | 0 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 12:39 | yes | 14 | 24 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 14:02 | yes | 20 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 10:56 | yes | 20 | 9 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 13:22 | yes | 9 | 7 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 10:52 | yes | 10 | 10 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 13:08 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 11:53 | yes | 10 | 23 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 10:09 | yes | 15 | 24 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 11:06 | yes | 10 | 76 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 10:54 | yes | 10 | 30 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 12:31 | no | 0 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 10:57 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 13:34 | no | 0 | 18 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 12:37 | yes | 20 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 11:28 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 12:41 | no | 0 | 10 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 11:02 | yes | 17 | 26 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 13:34 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 11:09 | no | 0 | 36 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 11:27 | yes | 15 | 77 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 10:22 | yes | 14 | 149 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 10:24 | yes | 10 | 35 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-17 10:02 | yes | 18 | 12 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-17 11:41 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-17 11:06 | yes | 21 | 21 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-17 12:25 | yes | 20 | 7 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-17 09:30 | yes | 44 | 14 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-17 12:21 | yes | 10 | 8 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-17 11:02 | yes | 30 | 44 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-17 11:06 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-17 12:43 | yes | 9 | 59 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-17 09:26 | yes | 15 | 27 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-17 10:13 | yes | 35 | 36 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-17 11:40 | yes | 13 | 27 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
GitHub Enterprise Server read as GitHub
GitLab SaaS read as GitLab
GitLab Self-Managed read as GitLab
GitLab Ultimate read as GitLab
self-hosted GitLab read as GitLab
Unresolved, counted raw
Microsoft CodePlex
OSDN
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.