Comparison of source-code-hosting facilities

A source-code-hosting facility (also known as forge) 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 Developer Initial release Free server? Free client? Associated collaborative development environment Notes
Assembla Assembla, Inc. 2005 No Un­known Un­known
Azure DevOps Services Microsoft 2012[1] No No Azure DevOps Services

Microsoft Visual Studio

 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 Denies service to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[3]
CloudForge CollabNet 2012 No Un­known Un­known
Gitea Gitea organization (open source community)[4] 2016-12[5] Yes Yes Gitea 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. GForge is free for open source projects.
GitHub GitHub, Inc. (A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation) 2008-04 No No Un­known Denies service to Crimea, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[7]

List of government takedown requests

GitLab GitLab Inc. 2011-09[8] Partial[9] Yes[10] GitLab FOSS – free software
GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) – proprietary		 Denies service to Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria[11]
GNU Savannah Free Software Foundation 2001-01 Yes Yes Savane For use by projects with GPL compatible licenses, subject to staff approval.

Code access review.[12]

Helix TeamHub Perforce Software 1995 No No Cloud version – free up to 5 users. On-premises version requires a license. 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 Supports Bazaar and Git for version-controlled repository hosting.[13][14]
OSDN OSDN K.K. 2002–04 Un­known Yes Un­known For open-source projects only.[15] Ad-supported.
Ourproject.org Comunes Collective 2002 Yes Yes FusionForge For free software, free culture and free content projects.
OW2 OW2 2008 No No GitLab Oriented on middleware technology.
Phabricator Phacility, Inc. 2010 Yes Yes Phabricator End of life.[16]
SEUL Un­known 1997-05 Un­known No Un­known
SourceForge Slashdot Media 1999-11 Yes[17][18] Yes Apache Allura For use by open-source projects.[19] Ad-supported.
Subject to American export restrictions, so denies service to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria.[20]
Name Manager Established Server side: all free software Client side: all-free JS code Developed or used CDE 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[21]YesYesYesYes NoNoNoYes Yes[22] YesYesYesUn­knownNo
Azure DevOps Services YesYesYesYesNoNoYes YesYesYesYesYesYesYes Commercially (Azure DevOps Server)
Bitbucket Yes[23] Yes[lower-alpha 1] Yes[24] YesNoNoNoNoYes Yes[lower-alpha 2] NoYes[25]Yes No[26] 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 YesYesNoYesNoNoNo NoYesYesUn­knownYes[27]YesYesYes
GitHub Yes[28] Yes[29][lower-alpha 5] Yes[30]YesNoNoNoNoYesYesYes Yes[31]YesYesCommercially (GitHub Enterprise)
GitLab Yes[32]YesYes[33]YesNoNoNo NoYesYesYesYes[34]Yes Yes[35] Yes[lower-alpha 6]
GNU Savannah Yes[36]YesYesNoNoYesYes No[37]NoNoYesNoYesUn­knownYes
Helix TeamHub Yes[38]YesNoYesNoNoYes YesYesYesNoYes, with hooks. Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.NoYesYes
Kallithea YesNoYesNoNoUn­knownNo NoYesYesNoNoYesYesYes
Launchpad YesYesNoNoYes NoYesNoYes Yes[lower-alpha 7] Yes Yes[lower-alpha 8] YesUn­knownYes
OSDN YesYesYesYesNoYesYes YesYesNoYesNoYesYesNo
Ourproject.org Un­knownYesYesYesNoUn­knownYesYesUn­knownUn­knownUn­knownUn­knownUn­knownUn­knownYes
Phabricator YesYesYesYesUn­knownYesUn­knownYesUn­knownUn­knownUn­knownUn­knownUn­knownUn­knownYes
RhodeCode YesNoYesNoNoUn­knownNo NoYesYesYesNoYesYesYes
SourceForge YesYesYesYesNoYesYesYesYes Yes[lower-alpha 9] 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, until Jan 2024[39][40] No No No No No
GitLab No Yes No No No No No No No
GNU Savannah Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes[41] No Yes No No
Kallithea No Yes Yes No No No No No No
Launchpad Import only Yes[14][42] Import only[43] 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 Dropped[44] Yes No Dropped[44] No No No No No
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[45] Yes Yes Yes Dropped[46]No No Un­known No[47]
Name CVS Git Hg SVN BZR TFVC Arch Perforce Fossil

Popularity
Name Users Projects
Assembla Un­known 526,581+[48]
Bitbucket 5,000,000[49] Un­known
Buddy Un­known Un­known
CloudForge Un­known Un­known
Gitea Un­known Un­known
GitHub 94,000,000[50] 330,000,000[50]
GitLab 31,190,000[51] 546,000[52][lower-alpha 10]
GNU Savannah 93,346[53] 3,848[53]
Launchpad 3,965,288[54] 40,881[55]
OSDN 54,826[56] 6,294[56]
Ourproject.org 6,353[57] 1,846[57]
OW2 Un­known Un­known
SEUL Un­known Un­known
SourceForge 3,700,000[58] 500,000[58]
Name Users Projects

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. Defunct as of July 2020.
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[59]
  • Betavine – abandoned somewhere in 2015.
  • CodeHaus – shut down in May 2015[60]
  • CodePlex – shut down in December 2017.
  • Fedora Hosted – closed in March 2017[61]
  • Gitorious – shut down in June 2015.
  • Gna! – 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.
  • Phabricator – wound down operations 1 June 2021, all projects continued to be hosted with very limited support after 31 August 2021.[16]
  • Tigris.org – shut down in July 2020.[62]
  • Mozdev.org - 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. Has an open source FOSS edition and commercial Enterprise Edition
  7. Currently only available for security vulnerability updates
  8. Ubuntu
  9. 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.
  10. GitLab is not fundamentally organized by projects, so the count is somewhat difficult.

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