Source control hosting · Named, not rankedSourceForge
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. SourceForge has 9.
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“It is generally considered risky for both open-source and closed-source projects”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“SourceForge is no longer recommended for hosting active repositories”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“SourceForge is generally avoided for modern source code hosting.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“avoid SourceForge as a primary download source for executables”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as SourceForge, over the 19 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 8 | View → | |
| 19 | 5 | View → | |
| 19 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on SourceForge's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- buyers, software and IT buyers and influencers
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 16 of the 19 answers that named SourceForge and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-five of the forty-nine domain citations in answers naming SourceForge came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 47 | 3 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| News or press | 30 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 21 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 11 | 3 | 2026-09-25 | ||
| Comparison | 8 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 8 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 7 | undated | |||
| Case study | 1 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Everyones a builder now and not all of them are human blog
- 2026-09-28How ai receptionist platforms compare for business use blog
- 2026-09-25The security agent for the ai endpoint era kitecyber sourceforge podcast episode 143 podcast or video
- 2026-09-24Are you leaving the front door of your crm open blog
- 2026-09-24Global outplacement career transition services careerminds sourceforge podcast episode 142 podcast or video
- 2026-09-23Automated certificate life cycle management manageengine sourceforge podcast episode 141 podcast or video
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page sourceforge.net 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.