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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. 58 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
72%
Clear leader
72GitHub12Bitbucket12GitLab03others

72% of first choices, clear leader.

Since September 2026▼−8Since September 2026: 78% → 71%, −8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.GitHub held the lead, −8 points on 78%, 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 small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
01GitHub72%9%80endorsed leader▼−8Since September 2026: 78% → 71%, −8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.78% → 71%
02GitLab12%14%83accepted challenger▲+1Since September 2026: 13% → 14%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.13% → 14%
03Bitbucket12%20%76accepted challenger▲+7Since September 2026: 7% → 14%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.7% → 14%
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
07AWS CodeCommit0%67%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%
06Forgejo0%27%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%
05Azure DevOps0%24%25accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
04Gitea0%19%31accepted challenger▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.2% → 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 72% 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.

What they warned about

Nine of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Kimi K2 and GLM 4.7 FlashX 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
20%
15 of 76 labels negative · 12 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“**Avoid Bitbucket Free** for new projects—the 5-user limit and 1GB storage cap (as of 2025) make it too restrictive” Kimi K2, budget prompt
GitLab
14%
12 of 83 labels negative · 10 of 14 models
“The case against GitLab typically comes down to cost and ecosystem fit. Premium at $29 per user is more expensive than GitHub Team $4 per user” Muse Glimmer 30B, scale prompt
AWS CodeCommit
67%
10 of 15 labels negative · 9 of 14 models · 7 hard negative
“It is not worth risking your code's long-term home on a service AWS almost killed.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
GitHub
9%
7 of 80 labels negative · 7 of 14 models
“don’t “avoid” GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket outright—they’re all widely used—but be cautious with whichever one you’d be stranded on” GPT-5.4 mini, 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. 1011 links across 247 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 · G237 answers · 65 citations · 12 models
vendor site · FitGap29 answers · 45 citations · 9 models
23 answers · 38 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Bitbucket23 answers · 30 citations · 13 models
vendor site · GitLab22 answers · 34 citations · 9 models
vendor site · GitHub17 answers · 23 citations · 7 models
17 answers · 17 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Guideflow15 answers · 15 citations · 8 models
15 answers · 15 citations · 9 models
vendor site · GitHub11 answers · 32 citations · 6 models
vendor site · SourceForge11 answers · 19 citations · 6 models
11 answers · 13 citations · 8 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.com72%2371,500,00031,47942,019,137$8114
GitLab gitlab.com12%21890,5004,844603,028$884664
Bitbucket bitbucket.org12%19533,1001,56022,601
GitHub parent site
GitHub Free for Organizations 3%
3%21,500,00031,479
Gitea gitea.com
Gitea 0%, Gitea/Forgejo 0%
0%619,9001937,814
Azure parent site
Azure DevOps 0%, Azure Repos 0%
0%138301,00047,904
Forgejo forgejo.org0%345,400552,9874
Codeberg codeberg.org0%198,1003332,214
Gogs0%
SourceHut0%5904

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 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
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesGitLab, Gitea
GitHub, GitLab
Two alternativesBitbucket, Gitea
GitHub
Two alternativesGitLab, Gitea
no first choiceagainst: SourceForge
GPT-5.4 miniGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Three alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHub Free for Organizations
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
no first choiceagainst: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
Gemini 3.5 FlashBitbucket, GitHub
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, GitLab
GitHubChanged
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Four alternativesBitbucket, Forgejo, GitLab, Gitea
GitHub
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, Forgejo, Gitea
against: GitLab
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: Gitea
against: AWS CodeCommit, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Forgejo, Gitea, SourceForge
Perplexity SonarGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
Bitbucket, GitHubChangedagainst: AWS CodeCommitGitHub
Four alternativesBitbucket, GitLab, Gitea, SourceHut
against: AWS CodeCommit
Bitbucket, GitHubagainst: SourceForgeno first choiceagainst: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
Grok 4.1 FastGitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Three alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
One alternativeBitbucket
against: Forgejo, GitLab, Gitea
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: AWS CodeCommit, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, Codeberg, Forgejo, GitLab, Gitea, SourceHut
Mistral SmallGitHub
Three alternativesAWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Four alternativesBitbucket, GitLab, Gitea, SourceHut
Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
One alternativeAzure DevOps
no first choiceagainst: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, SourceForge
DeepSeek V4 FlashGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitLabChanged
One alternativeGitHub
against: Bitbucket
GitHub
Five alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, Gitea, Gogs
GitHub
Five alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, Forgejo, GitLab, Gitea
GitHub, GitLabagainst: Bitbucketagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, SourceHut
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceno first choiceHeldno first choice
Two alternativesForgejo, Gitea
GitHub
One alternativeGitLab
no first choiceagainst: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
Qwen 3.7 FlashGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
One alternativeGitLab
against: Bitbucket
no first choice
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
against: AWS CodeCommit, Google Cloud Source Repositories, On-Premise GitLab CE, SourceForge
Kimi K2Bitbucket
Two alternativesGitHub, GitLab
GitHubChanged
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo
GitHub, GitLab
One alternativeGitea
against: Bitbucket
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: AWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, GitLab, SourceForge
GLM 4.7 FlashXGitHub
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, Gitea
GitLabChanged
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitHub
GitHub, GitLab
Five alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, Codeberg, Forgejo, Gitea
Bitbucket, GitHub
Three alternativesForgejo, GitLab, Gitea
against: RhodeCode CE, SourceHut
Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLabagainst: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Forgejo, Gitea, Gitosis
MiniMax M2.5GitHub
Three alternativesAWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
One alternativeGitLab
Bitbucket, GitLab
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, GitHub
against: AWS CodeCommit
GitHub, GitLab
One alternativeBitbucket
against: Gitea
GitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
against: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
GPT-6 LunaGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHub Free for Organizations
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
GitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
against: AWS CodeCommit, Amazon CodeCatalyst, Google Cloud Source Repositories, Launchpad Bazaar hosting
Muse Glimmer 30BGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
One alternativeGitLab
Bitbucket, GitHub
Two alternativesGitLab, Gitea/Forgejo
GitHub
One alternativeBitbucket
no first choiceagainst: GitLabagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Azure DevOps, 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
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 11:10no04 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 07:36yes34 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 10:06yes922 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 12:04yes164 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 09:00yes2013 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 12:07yes126 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 13:27yes2522 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 11:44yes51 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:41yes1032 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:11yes1517 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 12:04yes2031 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 08:39yes1016 s
Direct recommendationGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 08:05yes411 s
Direct recommendationMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 12:04yes1520 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 12:18no04 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:50yes34 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 13:02no013 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 07:48yes193 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 08:21yes207 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:33yes104 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 10:46yes2535 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:18yes51 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 07:42yes526 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 07:51no08 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 08:26yes2018 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:36yes1248 s
ParaphraseGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 08:53yes29 s
ParaphraseMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 11:49yes1513 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 11:55yes911 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 12:15yes57 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:47yes2022 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 09:06yes273 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 11:37yes258 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 12:00yes108 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 13:39yes2552 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 11:29yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 12:17yes1036 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 08:49yes2023 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:24yes2052 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 11:42yes2537 s
ComparativeGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 10:40yes619 s
ComparativeMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 11:52yes1235 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:14no04 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:12yes35 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:05yes2423 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 09:25yes393 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 11:37yes156 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 11:52yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:02yes1418 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:39yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:06yes1017 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 12:30yes1526 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 11:07yes1570 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 12:19yes516 s
Budget constrainedGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 10:17yes412 s
Budget constrainedMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 13:34yes1419 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:05no06 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:26no07 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 07:40yes923 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 12:45yes155 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:49no06 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 07:45no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 11:29yes2337 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 07:27yes52 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:33no033 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 12:18yes2429 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 13:46yes1321 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 13:29no056 s
Scale constrainedGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 08:00yes428 s
Scale constrainedMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 09:19yes1523 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:30yes188 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 11:16yes48 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 13:15yes1825 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 07:47yes273 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 07:41yes247 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 07:50yes208 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 11:34yes2432 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 13:47yes51 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:04yes1439 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:09yes2526 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 10:07yes1544 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:09yes545 s
Negative framingGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 12:09yes423 s
Negative framingMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 13:04yes1326 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
GitLab SaaS read as GitLab
GitLab Self-Managed read as GitLab
Unresolved, counted raw
Gitosis
Launchpad Bazaar hosting
On-Premise GitLab CE
RhodeCode CE
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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