Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities

A source-code repository is a file archive and web hosting facility for source code of software, documentation, web pages, and other works, accessible either publicly or privately. They are often used by open-source software projects and other multi-developer projects to maintain revision and version history, or version control. Many repositories provide a bug tracking system, and offer release management, mailing lists, and wiki-based project documentation. Software authors generally retain their copyright when software is posted to a code hosting facilities.

See also: Collaborative development environment and comparison of version-control software

General information
Name Manager Established Server side: all free software Client side: all-free JS code Developed or used CDE Require free software on registration Ad-free Notes
Assembla Assembla, Inc 2005 No Unknown Unknown No Yes
Azure DevOps Services Microsoft 2012[1] No No Azure DevOps Services

Microsoft Visual Studio

 No Yes Most features are free for open source projects or teams of 5 members or less[2]
Bitbucket Atlassian 2008 No No Atlassian BitBucket Server, JIRA and Confluence No Yes Denies service to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[3]
Buddy Buddy, LLC. 2015 No No Unknown No Yes Cloud version free for 1 project with no limit on size. Self-hosted version free up to 10 users with Fair Source license[4] applied.
CloudForge CollabNet 2012 No Unknown Unknown No Yes
Gitea Gitea organization (open source community)[5] 2016 Yes Yes Unknown No Yes Gitea is an open-source software tool funded on Open Collective that is designed for self-hosting, but also provides a free first-party instance.
GForge The GForge Group,Inc. [6] 2006 Partial Yes Cloud version – free up to 5 users. On-premises version - free up to 5 users. No Yes GForge is free for open source projects.
GitHub Microsoft/GitHub, Inc 2008-04 No No Unknown No Yes Denies Service to Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[7]

List of government takedown requests:

GitLab GitLab Inc. 2011-09[8] Partial[9] Yes[10] GitLab Community Edition (CE) — free software
GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) — proprietary		 No Yes Denies Service to Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[11]
GNU Savannah Savannah Administration 2001-01 Yes Yes Savane Yes Yes Project by the Free Software Foundation and projects with a GPL compatible license. Staff must approve requests for project approval, deletion, and so forth, which can take time if staffing levels are low. Code access review[12]
Helix TeamHub Perforce Software 1995 No No Cloud version – free up to 5 users. On-premises version requires a license. No Yes Free cloud version has no limits on projects within 5gb storage limit.

On-premises version has DevOps pipeline technology and free replicas.

Launchpad Canonical 2004 Yes No Launchpad No Yes Supports Bazaar and Git for version-controlled repository hosting.[13][14]
OSDN OSDN K.K. (Q11237954) 2002–04 Unknown Yes Unknown No No For open-source projects only.[15]
Ourproject.org Comunes Collective 2002 Yes Yes FusionForge No Yes For free software, free culture and free content projects.
OW2 Consortium OW2 Consortium Unknown Unknown No Unknown No Yes Oriented on middleware technology.
Phabricator Phacility, Inc 2010 Yes Yes Unknown No Yes Hosted option provided by Phacility
Rosetta Code Unknown 2007 Unknown Unknown Unknown Yes Yes Programming chrestomathy wiki for common algorithms
SEUL Unknown 1997-05 Unknown No Unknown No Yes
SourceForge BizX LLC 1999-11 Yes[16][17] Yes Apache Allura No No For open-source projects only.[18]
Denies service when accessed from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[19]
Name Manager Established Server side: all free software Client side: all-free JS code Developed or used CDE Require free software on registration Ad-free Notes

Features
Name Code review Bug tracking Web hosting Wiki Translation system Shell server Mailing list Forum Personal repository Private repository Announce Build system Team Release binaries Self-hosting
Assembla Yes[20]YesYesYesYes NoNoNoYes Yes[21] YesYesYesUnknownNo
Azure DevOps Services YesYesYesYesNoNoYes YesYesYesYesYesYesYes Commercially (Azure DevOps Server)
Bitbucket Yes[22] Yes[lower-alpha 1] Yes[23] YesNoNoNoNoYes Yes[lower-alpha 2] NoYes[24]Yes No[25] Commercially (Bitbucket Server formerly Stash)[lower-alpha 3]
Buddy YesYesNoNoNoNoYesYes YesYesYesYes[lower-alpha 4]YesYesYes
CloudForge Unknown Yes Yes YesNoNoNoNoUnknown Unknown UnknownUnknownUnknownUnknownNo
GForge Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Gitea YesYesNoYesUnknownUnknownUnknown UnknownYesYesUnknown3rd-party (e.g. Travis CI, Appveyor and others)[26]YesUnknownYes
GitHub Yes[27] Yes[28][lower-alpha 5] Yes[29]YesNoNoNoNoYesYes[lower-alpha 6]Yes 3rd-party (e.g. Travis CI, Appveyor and others)[30]YesYesCommercially (GitHub Enterprise)
GitLab Yes[31]YesYes[32]YesNoNoNo NoYesYesYesYes[33]Yes Yes[34] Yes[lower-alpha 7]
GNU Savannah Yes[35]YesYesNoNoYesYes No[36]NoNoYesNoYesUnknownYes
Helix TeamHub Yes[37]YesNoYesNoNoYes YesYesYesNoYes, with hooks. Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.NoYesYes
java.net/Project Kenai UnknownYesYesYesNoNoYes YesYesYesYesYesYesUnknownNo
Kallithea YesNoYesNoNoUnknownNo NoYesYesNoNoYesYesYes
Launchpad YesYesNoNoYes NoYesNoYes Yes[lower-alpha 8] Yes Yes[lower-alpha 9] YesUnknownYes
OSDN YesYesYesYesNoYesYes YesYesNoYesNoYesYesNo
Ourproject.org UnknownYesYesYesNoUnknownYesYesUnknownUnknownUnknownUnknownUnknownUnknownYes
Phabricator YesYesYesYesUnknownYesUnknownYesUnknownUnknownUnknownUnknownUnknownUnknownYes
RhodeCode YesNoYesNoNoUnknownNo NoYesYesYesNoYesYesYes
SourceForge YesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYes Yes[lower-alpha 10] YesNoYesYesYes
Name Code review Bug tracking Web hosting Wiki Translation system Shell server Mailing list Forum Personal repository Private repository Announce Build system Team Release binaries Self-hosting

Version control systems
Name CVS Git Hg SVN BZR TFVC Arch Perforce Fossil
Assembla No Yes No Yes No No No Yes No
Azure DevOps Services No Yes No No No Yes No No No
Bitbucket No Yes Until Feb 2020[lower-alpha 3] No No No No No No
Buddy No Yes No No No No No No No
CloudForge No Yes No Yes No No No No No
GForge Yes Yes No Yes No No No No No
Gitea No Yes No No No No No No No
GitHub No Yes No Partial[38] No No No No No
GitLab No Yes No No No No No No No
GNU Savannah Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[39] No Yes No No
java.net No Yes[40] Yes[40] Yes[40] No No No No No
Kallithea No Yes Yes No No No No No No
Launchpad Import only Yes[14][41] Import only[42] Import only Yes No No No Unknown
OSDN Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Unknown Unknown
Ourproject.org Yes No No Yes No No No Unknown Unknown
OW2 Consortium Yes No No Yes No No No Unknown Unknown
Helix TeamHub No Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes No
Phabricator No Yes Yes Yes No No No No No
RhodeCode No Yes Yes Yes No No No No No
SEUL.org Yes No No Yes No No No Unknown Unknown
SourceForge Dropped[43] Yes Yes Yes Dropped[44]No No Unknown No[45]
Sourcehut No Yes Yes No No No No Unknown Unknown
Name CVS Git Hg SVN BZR TFVC Arch Perforce Fossil

Popularity
Name Users Projects Alexa rank (lower = more popular)
Assembla Unknown 526,581+[46] 23,052 as of 9 September 2019[47]
Bitbucket 5,000,000[48] Unknown 989 as of 9 September 2019[49]
Buddy Unknown Unknown 73,518 as of 9 September 2019[50]
CloudForge Unknown Unknown 339,271 as of 9 September 2019[51]
Gitea Unknown Unknown 209,697 as of 9 September 2019[52]
GitHub 31,000,000[53] 100,000,000[53] 65 as of 9 September 2019[54]
GitLab 100,000[55] 546,000[56][lower-alpha 11] 2,146 as of 9 September 2019[57]
GNU Savannah 93,346[58] 3,848[58] 100,244 as of 9 September 2019[59]
Launchpad 3,965,288[60] 40,881[61] 12,344 as of 9 September 2019[62]
OSDN 54,826[63] 6,294[63] 8,529 as of 9 September 2019[64]
Ourproject.org 6,353[65] 1,846[65] 1,191,954 as of 9 September 2019[66]
OW2 Consortium Unknown Unknown 610,052 as of 9 September 2019[67]
Rosetta code Unknown Unknown 62,045 as of 9 September 2019[68]
SEUL Unknown Unknown 1,268,571 as of 9 September 2019[69]
SourceForge 3,700,000[70] 500,000[70] 407 as of 9 September 2019[71]
Name Users Projects Alexa rank (lower = more popular)

Discontinued: CodePlex, Gna!, Google Code.

Specialized hosting facilities

The following are open-source software hosting facilities that only serve a specific narrowly focused community or technology.

Name Ad-free CVS Git SVN Arch Notes
Drupal Yes No Yes No No Only for Drupal related projects.
freedesktop.org Yes No Yes No No Only for interoperability and shared base technology for free software desktop environments on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, including the X Window System (X11) and cairo (graphics).
mozdev.org Yes Yes Unknown No No Only for Mozilla-related projects.
Name Ad-free CVS Git SVN Arch Notes

Former hosting facilities
  • Alioth (Debian) In 2018, Alioth has been replaced by a GitLab based solution hosted on salsa.debian.org. Alioth has been finally switched off in June 2018.
  • BerliOS – abandoned in April 2014[72]
  • Betavine – abandoned somewhere in 2015.
  • CodeHaus – shut down in May 2015[73]
  • CodePlex CodePlex shut down in December 2017.
  • Fedora Hosted – closed in March 2017 [74]
  • Gitorious – shut down in June 2015.
  • Gna! Gna.org shut down in 2017.
  • Google Code – closed in January 2016, all projects archived. See http://code.google.com/archive/ .
  • java.net Java.net and kenai.com hosting closed April 2017.
  • Tigris.org - not accepting project requests since July 2014, will be eventually shut down in July 2020.

See also

Notes
  1. Anyone can submit Bug Reports without logging in.
  2. Limited to 5 users on free plan (see Pricing - bitbucket.org)
  3. Self hosted version is known as BitBucket Server and only supports Git repositories
  4. Builds are run in Docker containers
  5. Requires one to log in to report a Bug.
  6. Limited to 3 users on free plan (see Pricing - github.com)
  7. Has an open source Community Edition and commercial Enterprise Edition
  8. Currently only available for security vulnerability updates
  9. Ubuntu
  10. Private repositories can be used to set up a project before going live. However, SourceForge requires that the project remains open source. See SourceForge Support.
  11. GitLab is not fundamentally organized by projects, so the count is somewhat difficult.

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