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Source control hosting for small business buyers

Asked as “source control hosting platform”, and as “Git hosting service”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 46 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
GitHub
Clear leader
78% of first choices, clear leader.
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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.
Small businessGitHub78%Clear leaderThis pageMid-marketGitHub74%Clear leaderStanding →EnterpriseGitHub56%Clear leaderStanding →

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01GitHub78%14%73endorsed leader
02GitLab13%16%69accepted challenger
03Bitbucket7%18%67accepted challenger
04Gitea2%22%37accepted challenger
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
07AWS CodeCommit0%73%15criticized challenger
06Azure DevOps0%26%19criticized challenger
05Forgejo0%20%15accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.
Head to head
GitHub vs GitLabGitHub vs BitbucketGitLab vs Bitbucket

One product takes 78% of first choices here, so the chart would put six 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. Two products carry a negative rate above 25% in this category. Jump to the standing

02What they warned about

Six of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Perplexity Sonar, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash 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.
Bitbucket
18%
12 of 67 labels negative · 10 of 12 models
“if you are not using Jira/Trello or the Atlassian stack, because its main advantage is ecosystem integration rather than simplicity or neutrality” Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt
AWS CodeCommit
73%
11 of 15 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“Legacy/declining services like AWS CodeCommit**: AWS halted new customers in 2024; it's in maintenance mode” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt
GitHub
14%
10 of 73 labels negative · 9 of 12 models
“small businesses should be cautious about using GitHub, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps if they don't align with their specific needs” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt
GitLab
16%
11 of 69 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“**it is generally not recommended for companies on a tight budget.**” Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt

03What they cite

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

Sites the answers cite

56 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 11 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 644 links across 217 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. The other 1 model searched through a gateway that returned no source list on this edition.

us.fitgap.com
23 answers · 25 citations · 7 models
guideflow.com
vendor site · Guideflow21 answers · 21 citations · 8 models
g2.com
16 answers · 24 citations · 7 models
note.com
16 answers · 16 citations · 9 models
gitprotect.io
15 answers · 15 citations · 8 models
reddit.com
14 answers · 20 citations · 6 models
viasocket.com
12 answers · 16 citations · 7 models
devopsboys.com
12 answers · 13 citations · 4 models
cadence.withremote.ai
12 answers · 12 citations · 4 models
mgsoftware.nl
12 answers · 12 citations · 5 models
stackscored.com
11 answers · 11 citations · 6 models
worldmetrics.org
10 answers · 11 citations · 6 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.

guideflow.com/blog/version-control-software
21 answers · 8 models
us.fitgap.com/search/version-control-hosting-software/small-business
20 answers · 7 models
note.com/snake_dragon/n/n87068052df3a?hl=en
16 answers · 9 models
gitprotect.io/blog/top-git-hosting-services
14 answers · 8 models
cadence.withremote.ai/blog/github-vs-gitlab-vs-bitbucket
12 answers · 4 models
devopsboys.com/blog/github-vs-gitlab-vs-bitbucket-2026
12 answers · 4 models
mgsoftware.nl/en/tools/best-version-control-systems
12 answers · 5 models
stackscored.com/pricing/git-hosting
10 answers · 5 models
g2.com/categories/version-control-hosting/small-business
9 answers · 6 models
getpricepulse.com/blog/github-vs-gitlab-vs-bitbucket-pricing-2026.html
9 answers · 4 models

04How 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.
ModelDirect“What is the best source control hosting platform for a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which Git hosting service would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top source control hosting platforms for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best source control hosting platform for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a source control hosting platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which source control hosting platforms should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5GitHub, GitLabGitHubChanged
One alternativeGitLab
GitHub
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitLab, Gitea
GitHub
Two alternativesGitLab, Gitea
no first choiceagainst: AWS CodeCommit, GitHub, GitLab
GPT-5.4 miniGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: Azure DevOps, Giteano first choiceagainst: AWS CodeCommit, GitHub
Gemini 3.5 FlashGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: AWS CodeCommitGitHubHeld
One alternativeBitbucket
against: GitLabGitHub
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo
GitHub
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, Forgejo, Gitea
against: GitLabGitHub
One alternativeGitLab
against: Bitbucketagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Apache Subversion, Bitbucket, Codeberg, Coding.net, Gitea, Gitee, Gogs, Mercurial, Perforce Helix Core, SourceForge
Perplexity SonarGitHub
Two alternativesAWS CodeCommit, GitLab
GitLabChanged
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitHub
GitHub
Three alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHub, Giteaagainst: GitLabno first choiceagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
Grok 4.1 FastGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: Azure DevOps, GiteaGitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: AWS CodeCommit, Azure ReposGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: Forgejo, Giteano first choiceagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, Codeberg, Forgejo, GitLab, Gitea, SourceHut
Mistral SmallGitHub
Two alternativesAWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub, GitLab
Two alternativesBitbucket, Gitea
against: Perforce Helix CoreGitHub
Four alternativesBitbucket, Forgejo, GitLab, Gitea
no first choiceagainst: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
DeepSeek V4 FlashGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitLabChanged
One alternativeGitHub
against: BitbucketGitHub, GitLab
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, Gitea, Gogs
GitHub
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, Gitea
GitHub, GitLab
One alternativeBitbucket
against: AWS CodeCommit, GitHub, SourceForge
Llama 4 MaverickGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
no first choiceChangedno first choiceGitHub
Three alternativesCodeberg, Forgejo, Gitea
no first choiceagainst: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub
Qwen 3.7 FlashBitbucket, GitHub
One alternativeGitLab
GitHubChanged
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, Forgejo, Gitea
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: AWS CodeCommit, Apache Subversion, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Gitea, SourceForge
Kimi K2GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitLab, Gitea
GitHub
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitLab, Gitea
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: AWS CodeCommit, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Codeberg, Forgejo, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Origin by Cursor, Radicle, SourceForge, SourceHut
GLM 4.7 FlashXGitHub
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, Gitea
GitHubHeld
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo
GitHub
Four alternativesBitbucket, Forgejo, GitLab, Gitea
Bitbucket, GitHub
One alternativeGitea/Forgejo
against: GitLabno first choice
Five alternativesBitbucket, Forgejo, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea
against: AWS CodeCommit, Assembla, Bitbucket, CloudForge, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Gogs, SourceForge
MiniMax M2.5Bitbucket
Two alternativesGitHub, GitLab
GitHubChanged
One alternativeGitLab
GitHub
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitLab, Gitea
GitLab
Two alternativesBitbucket, Gitea
against: GitHubGitHub, GitLab
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket
against: Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitHub, SourceForge
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The 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-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:03no04 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 09:33yes36 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 13:39yes1130 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 11:07yes205 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 13:48yes159 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 09:37yes54 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 10:41yes1016 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 12:42yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 11:16no029 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 12:00yes1038 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 12:33yes1565 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 09:34yes1541 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 13:55no04 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 10:17yes35 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 12:51yes1226 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 12:31yes205 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 13:51yes148 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 10:26yes55 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 13:52yes1016 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 10:44yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 13:11no031 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 14:08yes515 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 12:03yes20263 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 13:52yes787 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:53yes1811 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 12:45yes56 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 10:55yes2026 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 14:15yes208 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 10:41yes1510 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 13:14yes58 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 12:22yes1016 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 11:15yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 13:01no035 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 11:05yes1023 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 10:03yes1534 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 11:51yes1250 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 09:47no04 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 10:39no03 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 14:04yes1421 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 12:27yes204 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 12:57yes157 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 12:46yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 11:21yes1010 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 13:50yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 10:46no036 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 13:23yes1526 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:56yes1048 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 12:03no013 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 11:32no06 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 12:11no08 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 10:42yes725 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:49yes2011 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 10:58no06 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 12:56no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 10:42yes1017 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 13:16yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 10:54no036 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 14:14yes1430 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 10:47yes20332 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 13:15no020 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 09:24yes1810 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 12:45yes47 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 11:20yes921 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 13:04yes206 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 09:43yes4318 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 11:15yes2016 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 12:59yes3055 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 11:41yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 11:59no042 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 12:18yes1598 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 14:03yes2973 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 10:08yes933 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
Self-hosted GitLab read as GitLab
Unresolved, counted raw
Coding.net
Gitbucket
Origin by Cursor
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.

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