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Source control hosting for enterprise buyers

Asked as “source control hosting platform”, and as “Git hosting service”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 50 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
GitHub
Clear leader
56% 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 leaderStanding →Mid-marketGitHub74%Clear leaderStanding →EnterpriseGitHub56%Clear leaderThis page

01The 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
01GitHub56%18%79endorsed leader
02GitLab28%11%74accepted challenger
03Bitbucket8%23%69accepted challenger
04Azure DevOps6%21%28accepted challenger
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
07AWS CodeCommit0%70%10criticized challenger
06Azure Repos0%25%12criticized challenger
05Perforce Helix Core0%9%11accepted 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

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
Negative label rate →
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative70%
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01GitHub56%
02GitLab28%
03Bitbucket8%
04Azure DevOps6%
05Perforce Helix Core0%
06Azure Repos0%
07AWS CodeCommit0%

02What they warned about

Five of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash and Kimi K2 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
18%
14 of 79 labels negative · 12 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“GitHub Enterprise suits most but avoid free tiers” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt
Bitbucket
23%
16 of 69 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 5 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” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
AWS CodeCommit
70%
7 of 10 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“AWS stopped accepting new customers in 2023 and labels it “not for new deployments.”” Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt
GitLab
11%
8 of 74 labels negative · 7 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)” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt

03What they cite

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

Sites the answers cite

61 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 5 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 900 links across 289 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

docs.github.com
vendor site · GitHub19 answers · 47 citations · 7 models
about.gitlab.com
vendor site · GitLab17 answers · 32 citations · 8 models
g2.com
16 answers · 29 citations · 9 models
gitnux.org
15 answers · 27 citations · 10 models
guideflow.com
vendor site · Guideflow15 answers · 15 citations · 7 models
github.com
vendor site · GitHub14 answers · 19 citations · 6 models
viasocket.com
13 answers · 15 citations · 7 models
mgsoftware.nl
13 answers · 13 citations · 7 models
atlassian.com
vendor site · Atlassian12 answers · 21 citations · 6 models
infoworld.com
12 answers · 12 citations · 6 models
bmc.com
vendor site · BMC11 answers · 12 citations · 5 models
dataintelo.com
11 answers · 11 citations · 9 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
15 answers · 7 models
g2.com/categories/version-control-hosting/enterprise
13 answers · 8 models
mgsoftware.nl/en/tools/best-version-control-systems
13 answers · 7 models
infoworld.com/article/2249213/enterprise-repo-wars-github-vs-gitlab-vs-bitb…
12 answers · 6 models
bmc.com/blogs/github-vs-gitlab-vs-bitbucket
11 answers · 5 models
dataintelo.com/report/git-hosting-platform-market
11 answers · 9 models
geekworkbench.com/blog/technical/github-gitlab-bitbucket-comparison
11 answers · 5 models
viasocket.com/discovery/blog/gq33cp/version-control-tools/10-best-version-c…
11 answers · 7 models
gitnux.org/service/git-hosting
10 answers · 8 models
oqtacore.com/blog/github-alternatives-for-enterprise-teams-a-2026-comparison
10 answers · 6 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 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 4.5GitHub, GitLab
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket
GitHubChanged
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, RhodeCode
GitLab
Two alternativesGitHub, Gitea
GitLab
One alternativeGitHub
against: Azure DevOps, GitHub, Launchpad, Radicle, SourceHut
GPT-5.4 miniGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Four alternativesAzure DevOps, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab
against: AWS CodeCommitGitLab
One alternativeGitHub
against: Bitbucket, GitHubno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashGitHub, GitLab
One alternativeBitbucket
against: Azure DevOpsGitHubChanged
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, GitLab
against: BitbucketGitHub, GitLab
Three alternativesAWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, Perforce Helix Core
against: Azure ReposAzure DevOps, Bitbucketagainst: GitHub, GitLabno first choice
Two alternativesGitHub, GitLab
against: AWS CodeCommit, Apache Subversion, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Forgejo, Gerrit, Gitea, Gitolite, Phabricator, SourceForge
Perplexity SonarGitLab
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitHub, Perforce Helix Core
GitHubChanged
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
no first choiceagainst: Apache Subversion, IBM Rational ClearCaseGitLab
One alternativePerforce Helix Core
against: Bitbucket, GitHubno first choiceagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Apache Subversion, ClearCase, Forgejo, Gitea, Mercurial, Perforce
Grok 4.1 FastGitHub
Three alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
One alternativeGitLab
no first choiceAzure DevOps
One alternativeGitLab
against: Bitbucket, GitHubGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
against: Assembla, Giteaagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, Codeberg, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo, SourceHut
Mistral SmallGitHub, GitLab
One alternativeBitbucket
Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLabChangedGitHub, GitLab
Four alternativesAWS CodeCommit, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, Perforce Helix Core
GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
no first choiceagainst: GitHub, GitLab
DeepSeek V4 FlashGitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub, GitLab
Three alternativesAzure Repos, Bitbucket, Perforce Helix Core
against: AWS CodeCommitGitLab
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitHub
against: GitHubno first choiceagainst: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Codeberg, Forgejo, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, SourceHut
Llama 4 MaverickGitHub
One alternativeGitLab
Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLabChangedno first choiceGitHubAssembla
One alternativeCoder
against: Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitHub, Perforce Helix Core
Qwen 3.7 FlashGitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLabChangedGitHub, GitLab
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, Perforce Helix Core
against: AWS CodeCommitAzure DevOps
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
against: GitHub, GitLabno first choice
Three alternativesBitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
against: Apache Subversion, Bitbucket, Codeberg, GitLab, Gitea, SourceForge, SourceHut
Kimi K2GitHub
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub, GitLabChangedGitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Two alternativesAzure DevOps, GitLab
no first choiceagainst: Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab
GLM 4.7 FlashXGitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitLab
Two alternativesGitHub, Perforce Helix Core / TeamHub
against: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Perforceno first choiceagainst: AWS CodeCommit, Azure Repos, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea
MiniMax M2.5GitHub
Two alternativesGitLab, Perforce Helix Core
GitHubHeld
Two alternativesBitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
Three alternativesAzure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab
GitHub
One alternativeGitLab
against: Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Perforceno first choiceagainst: Bitbucket, GitHub
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 11:49no04 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 10:27yes35 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 09:36yes1223 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 09:45yes205 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 12:13yes3618 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 13:20yes1310 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 13:22yes2936 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 12:31yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 13:30yes526 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 11:04yes1528 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 12:03yes29135 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 14:09yes1053 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 10:18no05 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 12:24yes36 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 13:09yes1224 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 12:14yes177 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 09:48yes2210 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 11:47yes53 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 12:08yes1014 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 13:00yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 10:48yes527 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 12:07yes1525 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:27yes2524 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 11:01yes533 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:51yes99 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 13:13yes79 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 09:54yes2233 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 13:32yes2010 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 13:51yes2417 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 11:18yes58 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 10:44yes918 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 10:13yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 12:29no038 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 10:27yes2342 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:16yes25133 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 11:03yes519 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 13:25yes188 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 10:36yes38 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 14:19yes2830 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 10:57yes205 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 09:54yes2914 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 13:50yes55 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 13:17yes1926 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 12:03yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 10:38no036 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 12:23yes1019 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:31yes28213 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 11:34yes2561 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 09:58yes1814 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 12:47no06 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 12:59no017 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 12:57yes208 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 12:24yes1511 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 12:31no010 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 12:29yes2537 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 12:50yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 11:20no043 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 10:17yes2549 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 12:06yes1576 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 12:11no015 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 12:39yes179 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 13:16no06 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 09:53yes1325 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 11:48yes205 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 11:15yes4116 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 12:36yes2013 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 10:37yes3056 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 12:02yes54 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 10:20no041 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 09:53yes3039 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 11:04yes3343 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 10:33yes1038 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
Atlassian read as Bitbucket
GitHub Enterprise Server read as GitHub
GitHub Enterprise Server (self-hosted) read as GitHub
GitLab Self-Managed read as GitLab
GitLab Self-Managed Premium read as GitLab
GitLab Ultimate read as GitLab
GitLab Ultimate (SaaS) read as GitLab
GitLab Ultimate (self‑managed) read as GitLab
GitLab self-managed read as GitLab
Unresolved, counted raw
Azure DevOps Repos / Server
ClearCase
CodeCatalyst
Gerrit
Gitolite
IBM Rational ClearCase
Launchpad
Perforce Helix Core / TeamHub
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.

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