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September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 · The permanent record of that edition, superseded since. The current standing is on the category page →
Index › Developer platform › Source control › Enterprise › September 2026 Edition

Source control hosting for enterprise buyers

Asked as “source control hosting platform”, and as “Git hosting service”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 56 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
54%
Clear leader
54GitHub30GitLab04Azure DevOps12others

54% 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 an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01GitHub54%22%92endorsed leader
02GitLab30%13%82endorsed leader
03Bitbucket4%28%75criticized challenger
04Azure DevOps4%15%34accepted challenger
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
08Gitea0%55%11criticized challenger
07AWS CodeCommit0%50%14criticized challenger
06Perforce Helix Core0%18%11accepted challenger
05Azure Repos0%10%20accepted challenger
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

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative70%
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01GitHub54%
02GitLab30%
03Bitbucket4%
04Azure DevOps4%
05Azure Repos0%
06Perforce Helix Core0%
07AWS CodeCommit0%
08Gitea0%

What they warned about

Six of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 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.
GitHub
22%
20 of 92 labels negative · 13 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“"should primarily be cautious (or avoid) free or public tiers of popular Git hosting platforms like GitHub.com (free), GitLab.com (free)"” Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt
Bitbucket
28%
21 of 75 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 6 hard negative
“"Atlassian has officially announced the end of life (EOL) for their on-premise 'Server' products... should never purchase a license for a product line that is being phased out"” Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt
GitLab
13%
11 of 82 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Avoid cloud GitHub/GitLab at this scale unless negotiating massive custom caps—their usage fees (Actions, compute) make totals unpredictable” Grok 4.20, budget prompt
AWS CodeCommit
50%
7 of 14 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Closed to new customers (July 2024); uncertain long-term roadmap; limited ecosystem | ❌ **Avoid for new deployments**” Kimi K2, negative prompt

What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

75 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1123 links across 316 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · GitHub33 answers · 65 citations · 9 models
vendor site · GitLab27 answers · 50 citations · 10 models
vendor site · GitHub23 answers · 38 citations · 9 models
23 answers · 30 citations · 10 models
vendor site · G222 answers · 46 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Guideflow19 answers · 19 citations · 10 models
19 answers · 19 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Gitnux18 answers · 25 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Atlassian18 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Bitbucket16 answers · 27 citations · 8 models
15 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
vendor site · ZipDo.co15 answers · 17 citations · 7 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.com54%2371,500,00031,47942,019,137$8114
GitLab gitlab.com
GitLab 30%, GitLab Self-Managed or GitLab Dedicated 2%, GitLab Premium SaaS 0%
32%21890,5004,844603,028$884664
Bitbucket bitbucket.org4%19533,1001,56022,601
Azure parent site
Azure DevOps 4%, Azure Repos 0%
4%138301,00047,904
Assembla assembla.com2%4
Atlassian atlassian.com
Atlassian Bitbucket Data Center 2%
2%24,724,388 company$5,906616
GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency2%
Perforce Enterprise Cloud2%
Perforce Helix Core perforce.com0%1126011161,450$2,860100
RhodeCode rhodecode.com0%4

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 13 sites; 2 of them are among the sites the models cited here (about.gitlab.com, atlassian.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 an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which Git hosting service would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade source control hosting platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best source control hosting platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a source control hosting platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which source control hosting platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceGitHubChanged
Three alternativesGitLab, Gitea, Gitolite
GitHub
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, RhodeCode
Azure DevOps
One alternativeGitHub
GitLab
One alternativeGitHub
against: GitHub, Gitea
GPT-5.4 miniGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
no first choiceGitLab Self-Managed or GitLab Dedicated
One alternativeBitbucket
against: GitHub
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: AWS CodeCommit, Azure DevOps
Gemini 3.5 FlashGitHub, GitLab
One alternativeAzure DevOps
against: Bitbucket
GitHub, GitLabHeld
One alternativeAzure DevOps
against: Bitbucket
GitHub
Four alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab, Perforce Helix Core
GitLab
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, GitHub, Gitea
against: Bitbucket, GitHub
no first choiceagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, Gitea, Gitee, Gogs, Google Cloud Source Repositories, Phabricator, SourceForge
Perplexity SonarGitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, GitLab, Perforce Helix Core
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Five alternativesAWS CodeCommit, Atlassian Bitbucket Data Center, Azure Repos, GitLab, Perforce Helix Core
Assembla, Perforce Enterprise Cloud
One alternativeGitLab
against: GitHub
GitLab
Two alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket
against: Gitea/Forgejo
against: Apache Subversion, CVS, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, SourceHut
Grok 4.20GitHub
Three alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Three alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab
against: AWS CodeCommit
Azure DevOps
One alternativeBitbucket
against: GitHub, GitLab
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: Bitbucket, Codeberg, Forgejo, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, SourceHut
Mistral SmallGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesAzure Repos, GitLab
against: Bitbucket
GitHub
Five alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab, Perforce Helix Core, RhodeCode
GitHub
One alternativeBitbucket
no first choiceagainst: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub
DeepSeek V4 FlashGitHub
One alternativeGitLab
against: Bitbucket
GitLabChanged
One alternativeGitHub
GitHub
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, Perforce Helix Core
against: AWS CodeCommit
GitLab
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, GitHub
against: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab Premium SaaS
GitHub, GitLab
One alternativeBitbucket
against: Bitbucket, Codeberg, Coding.net, Forgejo, GitHub, Gitea, Gitee, Gogs, SourceHut
Llama 4 MaverickGitLabno first choiceChangedno first choiceGitLabno first choiceagainst: Perforce Helix Core
Qwen 3.7 FlashGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub, GitLabChanged
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket
GitHub Enterprise Solutions
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, Perforce Helix Core
Bitbucket
One alternativeGitHub
against: Bitbucket, GitHub
GitHub, GitLab
One alternativeBitbucket
against: SourceForge
against: AWS CodeCommit, Azure DevOps, GitHub Public Repositories, GitLab, Rational ClearCase, SourceForge
Kimi K2GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub, GitLab
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket
Bitbucket
One alternativeGitHub
against: GitLab
GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency, GitLab
One alternativeBitbucket
against: AWS CodeCommit, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, SourceForge
GLM 4.7 FlashXGitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitLabChanged
Three alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, GitHub
GitHub, GitLab
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket
GitLab
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitHub
against: Gitea/Forgejo
no first choiceagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo, Google Code, IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) / ClearCase-based services, Launchpad, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) / Azure DevOps Repos, Perforce Helix Core, SourceForge
MiniMax M2.5GitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitLabChanged
Three alternativesAWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, GitHub
GitHub
Four alternativesAWS CodeCommit, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitLab
One alternativeBitbucket
against: Azure DevOps
GitHub
One alternativeGitLab
against: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
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. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 11:05no05 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 12:04yes35 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 13:44no015 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 07:58yes163 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 09:23yes2515 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 07:43yes104 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:41yes2035 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 10:06yes51 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 08:21no032 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:16yes2024 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 12:15yes20108 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:21yes1017 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:13no04 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:48yes34 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 13:01yes1223 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 11:18yes143 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 08:48yes196 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 08:50no03 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:11yes2523 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 10:44yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:22yes531 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 13:31yes2029 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 10:57yes1439 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 13:30yes1041 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:59yes910 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:18yes79 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 11:23yes1023 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 11:52yes165 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 11:28yes238 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 13:08yes1312 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 11:13yes2552 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 12:33yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:03no044 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:05yes1034 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 08:06yes2592 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 13:24yes1023 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 13:14yes188 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:24yes56 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 13:01yes2931 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 12:24yes183 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:06yes2511 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:55yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 13:47yes2543 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:30yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 08:47yes1065 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:57yes2427 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 11:49yes2469 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:08yes2490 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 13:11yes1815 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:32yes510 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:48no017 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:02yes196 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:49yes2510 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:28no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 07:54yes2449 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 11:50yes52 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 12:44no037 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 13:23yes2441 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:37yes25130 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 11:53yes1021 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 11:21yes189 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:53yes39 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:32yes1334 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:11yes155 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 12:13yes258 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 12:12yes157 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 12:15yes2434 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 12:41yes52 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:52yes1558 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:12yes2535 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 08:35yes25101 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 12:45yes2545 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
GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) read as GitHub
GitHub Enterprise Server (self-hosted) read as GitHub
GitLab SaaS read as GitLab
GitLab Self-Managed read as GitLab
GitLab Ultimate read as GitLab
Unresolved, counted raw
CVS
Coding.net
GitHub AE
GitHub Enterprise Cloud with Data Residency
GitHub Enterprise Solutions (Microsoft)
GitHub Public Repositories
GitLab Premium SaaS
GitLab Self-Managed or GitLab Dedicated
Gitolite
IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) / ClearCase-based services
Launchpad
Microsoft Azure DevOps Server
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) / Azure DevOps Repos (legacy)
P4
Perforce Enterprise Cloud
Perforce P4
Rational ClearCase
Unity Version Control
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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