Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 23 → 20 of 20
3 categories · RankedSourceForge
28Judge labels
0First choices
20Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Source control for mid-market buyers
Rank 33 of 33 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 90% of its 10 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of SourceForge →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business21 of 22
0%6 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market33 of 33
0%10 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise42 of 42
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
In source control · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named SourceForge for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source control hosting | Developer platform | 0% | 33 of 33 | 90% | 10 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Certificate lifecycle management | Identity and access | 0% | 68 of 104 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Sectigo Certificate Manager at 27% | |
| SaaS management platforms | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 55 of 64 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Torii at 34% |
Movement
Since September 2026, SourceForge held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Source control · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 23 → 29 of 29
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 20 → 36 of 36
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Source control | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 23 → 33 of 33 |
| Certificate management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 68 of 104, unchanged |
| SaaS management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 55 of 64, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
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 · The editions
By model
How each model treated SourceForge across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated SourceForge across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative18 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Certificate Lifecycle Management Software by SourceForge - This software manages certificates during the entire lifecycle” Llama 4 Maverick · Certificate management · direct prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“SourceForge: Universally panned in developer surveys and AI recommendations (89% negative labels across models).” Grok 4.20 · Source control · negative prompt · hard negative
“SourceForge lacks the modern integrated DevOps workflows... It's generally considered outdated for new projects.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Source control · negative prompt · hard negative
“gives it a strongly negative assessment for teams seeking a standard DevSecOps lifecycle” Perplexity Sonar · Source control · negative prompt · hard negative
“SourceForge | AVOID | Junkware history, poor modern UX, deprecated tech stack.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Source control · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SourceForge, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SourceForge was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SourceForge, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SourceForge was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named SourceForge. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 27 of the 28 answers that named SourceForge and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
g2.com14
sourceforge.netYour site11
it-ai-index.com8
gitnux.org7
us.fitgap.com7
guideflow.com6
note.com6
zipdo.co6
aws.amazon.com5
gitprotect.io4
Sixty-three of the seventy-four domain citations in answers naming SourceForge came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
sourceforge.net is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, SourceForge takes 0% of first choices and GitHub takes 70%.ShowHide
Search and answers
sourceforge.net is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, SourceForge takes 0% of first choices and GitHub takes 70%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “source control hosting platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “source control hosting platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 8,100 a month (“sourceforge”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 120 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 3,736,174 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 462,202 · 19,920 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 448,635
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 33 of 33 in source control
Segment leader
70%
GitHub
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 28 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 27 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on sourceforge.net
30,087
subdomains included
Content
134
counted in the table below
Documentation
58
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 47 | 3 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| News or press | 30 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 21 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 11 | 3 | 2026-09-25 | ||
| Comparison | 8 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 8 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 7 | undated | |||
| Case study | 1 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Everyones a builder now and not all of them are human blog
- 2026-09-28How ai receptionist platforms compare for business use blog
- 2026-09-25The security agent for the ai endpoint era kitecyber sourceforge podcast episode 143 podcast or video
- 2026-09-24Are you leaving the front door of your crm open blog
- 2026-09-24Global outplacement career transition services careerminds sourceforge podcast episode 142 podcast or video
- 2026-09-23Automated certificate life cycle management manageengine sourceforge podcast episode 141 podcast or video
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page sourceforge.net exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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The company
SourceForge is its own company.ShowHide
The company
SourceForge is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Complete Software Platform
- For
- buyers, software and IT buyers and influencers
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What SourceForge's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: sourceforge.net, sourceforge.net/software/vendors/pricing, sourceforge.net/projects/platformids. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when SourceForge's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as SourceForge, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for SourceForge by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where SourceForge is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name SourceForge, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.