# Source control hosting: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "source control hosting platform" and as "Git hosting service", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/developer/source-control-hosting/2026-11

**Standing:** GitHub leads with 78% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 49 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [GitHub](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/github/index.md) | 78% | 10% | 86 |
| 2 | [GitLab](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/gitlab/index.md) | 16% | 11% | 85 |
| 3 | [Bitbucket](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/bitbucket/index.md) | 6% | 25% | 80 |
| 4 | [Gitea](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/gitea/index.md) | 0% | 10% | 30 |
| 5 | [Azure DevOps](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/azure-devops/index.md) | 0% | 21% | 33 |
| 6 | [Forgejo](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/forgejo/index.md) | 0% | 5% | 20 |
| 7 | [Codeberg](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/codeberg/index.md) | 0% | 6% | 16 |
| 8 | [Azure Repos](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/azure-repos/index.md) | 0% | 15% | 13 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 28 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: no first choice
- GPT-5.4 mini: GitHub; alternatives Bitbucket, GitLab
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: GitHub; alternatives Bitbucket, GitLab
- Perplexity Sonar: GitHub; alternatives Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
- Grok 4.20: GitHub; alternatives Azure DevOps, GitLab
- Mistral Small: GitHub
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: GitHub; alternatives Bitbucket, GitLab
- Llama 4 Maverick: GitHub; alternatives Bitbucket, GitLab
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: GitHub, GitLab; alternatives Bitbucket
- Kimi K2: GitHub; alternatives Azure DevOps, GitLab
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Bitbucket; alternatives Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab
- MiniMax M2.5: GitHub; alternatives Bitbucket, GitLab
- GPT-6 Luna: GitHub; alternatives Bitbucket, GitLab
- Muse Glimmer 30B: GitHub; alternatives GitLab

## Sources the answers cite

67 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- github.com: 28 answers, 50 citations
- bitbucket.org: 19 answers, 22 citations
- gane.ai/index: 19 answers, 20 citations
- g2.com: 18 answers, 22 citations
- about.gitlab.com: 16 answers, 22 citations
- en.wikipedia.org: 14 answers, 14 citations
- toolradar.com: 13 answers, 24 citations
- ciopages.com: 13 answers, 13 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://gane.ai/index/it/developer/source-control-hosting (18 answers)
- https://github.com/pricing (15 answers)
- https://bitbucket.org/product/code-repository (14 answers)
- https://ciopages.com/buyer-guides/source-code-management (13 answers)
- https://guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-git-hosting-platforms-2026 (13 answers)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_source-code-hosting_facilities (12 answers)
- https://toolradar.com/guides/best-version-control-tools (11 answers)
- https://g2.com/categories/version-control-hosting (9 answers)
- https://hiraditya.github.io/posts/where-should-your-code-live (9 answers)
- https://northflank.com/blog/best-github-alternatives (8 answers)

## Warned against

- Bitbucket: 20 of 80 labels 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: 9 of 86 labels 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: 9 of 9 labels negative. "It is generally considered risky for both open-source and closed-source projects" (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- GitLab: 9 of 85 labels negative. "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)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: GitHub at 78%.

- GitHub: 70% to 78%, +8. Inside the floor by 3 points · rank 1 of 28, unchanged.
- GitLab: 21% to 16%, −5. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 2 of 28, unchanged.
- Bitbucket: 4% to 6%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 3 of 28, unchanged.
- Gitea: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 4 of 28, unchanged.
- Azure DevOps: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 6 → 5 of 28.
- Azure Repos: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 5 → 8 of 28.
- Forgejo: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 7 → 6 of 28.
- Codeberg: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 8 → 7 of 28.
- AWS CodeCommit: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 19 → 27 of 28.
- SourceForge: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 33 → 28 of 28.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.