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Source control hosting

Asked as “source control hosting platform”, and as “Git hosting service”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 53 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
70%
Clear leader
70GitHub21GitLab04Bitbucket06others

70% of first choices, clear leader.

Since September 2026▼−7Since September 2026: 74% → 67%, −7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.GitHub held the lead, −7 points on 74%, inside the 11-point floor.

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 fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
01GitHub70%16%83endorsed leader▼−7Since September 2026: 74% → 67%, −7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.74% → 67%
02GitLab21%14%81accepted challenger▲+5Since September 2026: 19% → 24%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.19% → 24%
03Bitbucket4%26%76criticized challenger=heldSince September 2026: 4% → 4%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.4% → 4%
04Gitea2%15%27accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.2% → 2%
05Azure Repos2%0%16accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
06Azure DevOps2%27%30criticized challenger▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 2%
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
10SourceForge0%90%10criticized challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
09AWS CodeCommit0%40%15criticized challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
08Codeberg0%9%11accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
07Forgejo0%5%19accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured

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 fifteen head-to-head pages: the top six products, each against each

One product takes 70% of first choices here, so the chart would put nine 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. Four products carry a negative rate above 25% in this category.

What they warned about

Seven of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, 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
16%
13 of 83 labels negative · 13 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“GitHub - due to controversies” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt
Bitbucket
26%
20 of 76 labels negative · 12 of 14 models · 3 hard negative
“*Atlassian ended support for Bitbucket Server in February 2024*” Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt
SourceForge
90%
9 of 10 labels negative · 9 of 14 models · 7 hard negative
“**SourceForge**: Universally panned in developer surveys and AI recommendations (89% negative labels across models).” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt
GitLab
14%
11 of 81 labels negative · 9 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“GitLab SaaS - not budget-friendly for small, scaling teams” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt

What they cite

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

Sites the answers cite

73 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1052 links across 295 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. 70 of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category; the method page measures whether that reading tilts an answer.

vendor site · G230 answers · 62 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Guideflow25 answers · 25 citations · 10 models
24 answers · 34 citations · 10 models
22 answers · 22 citations · 10 models
vendor site · FitGap20 answers · 24 citations · 10 models
vendor site · GitLab19 answers · 29 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Bitbucket18 answers · 33 citations · 8 models
vendor site · GitHub18 answers · 28 citations · 9 models
vendor site · ZipDo.co18 answers · 21 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Gitnux16 answers · 18 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Graphite16 answers · 16 citations · 8 models
14 answers · 15 citations · 10 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.com70%2371,500,00031,47942,019,137$8114
GitLab gitlab.com21%21890,5004,844603,028$884664
Bitbucket bitbucket.org4%19533,1001,56022,601
Azure parent site
Azure Repos 2%, Azure DevOps 2%
4%138301,00047,904
Gitea gitea.com
Gitea 2%, Gitea/Forgejo 0%
2%619,9001937,814
Forgejo forgejo.org0%345,400552,9874
Codeberg codeberg.org0%198,1003332,214
SourceHut0%5904
Gitbucket0%
Self-Hosted GitLab CE0%

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 13 sites; 1 of them are among the sites the models cited here (about.gitlab.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 a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which Git hosting service would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top source control hosting platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best source control hosting platform for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a source control hosting platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which source control hosting platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
no first choiceGitHub, GitLab
Two alternativesForgejo, Gitea
no first choiceagainst: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Codeberg, GitHub, SourceForge
GPT-5.4 miniGitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Three alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Four alternativesBitbucket, Forgejo, GitLab, Gitea
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashGitHub
One alternativeGitLab
against: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Six alternativesAWS CodeCommit, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Forgejo, GitLab, Gitea
GitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Forgejo, Gitea
against: Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHub, GitLab
One alternativeAzure DevOps
against: Bitbucket
against: AWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, Gitee, Keybase Git, Phabricator
Perplexity SonarGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitLabChanged
Three alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, GitHub
no first choiceGitHub
Two alternativesAWS CodeCommit, Phabricator
no first choiceagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, SourceForge
Grok 4.1 FastBitbucket, GitHub
One alternativeGitLab
GitHubChanged
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: Azure DevOps
GitHub, GitLab
Two alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket
against: Gitea, RhodeCode
against: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, SourceForge
Mistral SmallGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub, GitLabChanged
One alternativeAzure Repos
GitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHub, GitLab
Two alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket
no first choiceagainst: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Codegiant, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, SourceForge
DeepSeek V4 FlashGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitLabChanged
Three alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, GitHub
GitHub
Five alternativesAzure DevOps, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo
GitHub
Two alternativesGitLab, Gitea
against: Bitbucket
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, SourceForge
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceno first choiceHeldno first choiceGitLab
Two alternativesAWS CodeCommit, GitHub
no first choiceagainst: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, SourceForge
Qwen 3.7 FlashGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitLabChanged
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitHub
GitHub, GitLab
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket
GitHub
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitLab, Gitea
no first choiceagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, SourceForge
Kimi K2GitHub
One alternativeGitLab
against: Bitbucket
GitHubHeld
One alternativeGitLab
against: Bitbucket
GitHub
Three alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab
against: AWS CodeCommit
Azure DevOps, GitHub
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitLab, Gitea
no first choiceagainst: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Forgejo, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Gogs, Google Code, Microsoft CodePlex, RubyForge, SourceForge
GLM 4.7 FlashXGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
BitbucketChanged
Two alternativesGitHub, GitLab
GitHub
Six alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, Codeberg, GitLab, Gitea, SourceHut
Gitea
Three alternativesBitbucket, Codeberg, GitHub
against: GitLab
GitHub, GitLab
One alternativeBitbucket
against: Gitea/Forgejo
against: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, SourceForge
MiniMax M2.5GitHub, GitLab
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket
no first choiceChanged
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
no first choiceagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub
GPT-6 LunaGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
no first choiceGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
no first choiceagainst: AWS CodeCommit, GitHub, Google Cloud Source Repositories, JetBrains Space
Muse Glimmer 30BGitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Azure Repos, GitLab
GitHubHeld
One alternativeGitLab
GitHub
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab
Azure Repos, GitHub
Two alternativesGitLab, Gitea
against: Bitbucket
no first choiceagainst: Amazon CodeCatalyst, Bitbucket, GitHub, Google Cloud Source Repositories, JetBrains Space, Perforce TeamHub, Phabricator
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
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:35no04 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:56yes44 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 10:06yes1124 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 07:49yes265 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 08:53yes248 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 13:07yes95 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:44yes2025 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:22yes51 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 07:26no028 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 12:15yes2526 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 12:58yes25111 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 12:53yes1035 s
Direct recommendationGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 11:12yes310 s
Direct recommendationMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 11:43yes1317 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 08:22yes97 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 13:38yes44 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 13:17yes1425 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 11:16yes174 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 07:39yes146 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:48yes53 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:39yes2422 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 13:27yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:26yes525 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 13:37no025 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 11:01yes1968 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:34yes515 s
ParaphraseGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 08:15yes311 s
ParaphraseMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 07:38yes1520 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 08:28yes98 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 12:59yes58 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 10:35yes922 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:40yes163 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 11:43yes237 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 08:09yes106 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 11:18yes2546 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:40yes51 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 08:59yes1553 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:15yes1529 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:27yes1936 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:00yes1013 s
ComparativeGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 09:07yes521 s
ComparativeMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 10:07yes1522 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 11:12no05 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 13:30no02 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 12:57yes2428 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 12:06yes155 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 12:12yes257 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 12:43yes146 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:40yes2528 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 13:53yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:50yes1031 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:37yes2022 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 08:59yes2029 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 08:40yes1533 s
Budget constrainedGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 13:41yes414 s
Budget constrainedMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 12:50yes1316 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 08:38no07 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:44no05 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 10:03no016 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 12:20yes156 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:42yes158 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 09:24no08 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:50yes2335 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 11:55yes51 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 12:08yes532 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 12:43yes2529 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 12:54yes2526 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:11no09 s
Scale constrainedGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 11:39yes718 s
Scale constrainedMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 08:01yes1322 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 11:29yes188 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 11:08no05 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 10:23yes1828 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 08:49yes323 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 12:18yes249 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 13:01yes1016 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:08yes2532 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:39yes52 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 13:30yes2071 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 08:12yes2529 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 12:25yes1712 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:38yes2428 s
Negative framingGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 11:57yes427 s
Negative framingMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 07:53yes1233 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
GitHub Enterprise Server read as GitHub
GitLab SaaS read as GitLab
GitLab Self-Managed read as GitLab
GitLab Ultimate read as GitLab
Unresolved, counted raw
Codegiant
Keybase Git
Microsoft CodePlex
MilesWeb
Perforce TeamHub
Phorge
RubyForge
Self-Hosted GitLab CE
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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