7 categories · RankedGitHub
GitHub is a developer platform for hosting source code and building software, used by individual developers, businesses and open source communities · github.com ↗
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Leads at small business. Ranked 1 of 37 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first. Next is GitLab at 11%.
Ranked first. Next is GitLab at 16%. 11 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Ranked first. Next is GitLab at 20%.
Why models recommend it
“Small company needing hosted with no card / no infra work: GitHub Free. Unlimited private repos and unlimited collaborators with built-in Actions, Packages and project management at $0.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“GitHub (specifically GitHub Enterprise or GitHub Enterprise Cloud) is generally the best source control hosting platform for a mid-market B2B company.”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · first choice
“GitHub has won the war for mindshare. Most senior engineers prefer GitHub for its intuitive interface and massive library of third-party integrations”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“the most popular platform for hosting Git repositories, offering extensive collaboration tools, integrations, and a vast ecosystem”Mistral Small · Comparative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“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 question · warning
“Some privacy-focused lists recommend avoiding GitHub due to these practices”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Approach cautiously GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Gitea due to reliability, data protection, and policy concerns”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“GitHub is not an app store. It does not check every repository for safety, and anyone can upload code, including cybercriminals.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as GitHub, over the 267 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 237 | 14 | Compare → | |
| 222 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 127 | 4 | View → | |
| 71 | 2 | View → | |
| 42 | 1 | View → | |
| 37 | 0 | View → | |
| 29 | 1 | View → | |
| 24 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of GitHub →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on GitHub's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community
- Price stated
- Free Team Enterprise
- Starting price
- $ 0 USD per user/month
- Free plan or trial
- Start free for 30 days; Join for free
- Certifications
- SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, FedRAMP, GDPR
- Hosting
- EU, Australia
- Customers named
- Duolingo, Mercedes-Benz, Figma, Mercado Libre, Trustpilot, Netdata, American Airlines, SAP
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
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. These counts come from 216 of the 267 answers that named GitHub and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
354 of the 554 domain citations in answers naming GitHub came from a third party's page. Fifty-nine were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Grok 4.20 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference or event | 46 | 0 | 2024-06-19 | ||
| Report or ebook | 45 | 1 | 2026-09-04 | ||
| Blog | 41 | 0 | 2026-01-30 | ||
| Case study | 21 | 0 | 2026-01-30 | ||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-04GHSL 2026 203 jupyter notebook repository report or ebook
- 2026-01-30Devops tools comparison blog
- 2026-01-30General motors case study
- 2025-12-16Solutions for government report or ebook
- 2025-12-152026 pricing changes for github actions blog
- 2025-11-15Astrazeneca case study
Events in person
- May 16, 2026PyCon US 2026Long Beach, USA · spoke
- April 22, 2026 to April 24, 2026Devoxx France 2026Paris, France · spoke
- April 16, 2026VulnCon 2026Scottsdale, USA · spoke
As the event pages on github.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page github.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.