GitHub Alternatives to Host Your Project

GitHub is a United States-based global company that provides hosting for software development and version control using Git. It has been a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018. After the acquisition of Microsoft, It gives free of cost for a single user but before the acquisition, it didn’t.

There are top alternatives to GitHub.

1 Bitbucket —

Bitbucket is a web-based version control repository hosting service owned by Atlassian, for source code and development projects that use either Mercurial or Git revision control systems. Bitbucket offers both commercial plans and free accounts.

2 Git Lab —

GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git-repository manager providing wiki, issue-tracking and continuous integration/continuous deployment pipeline features, using an open-source license, developed by GitLab Inc.

3 Google Cloud Source Repositories —

Google Cloud Source Repositories provides Git version control to support collaborative development of any application or service, including those that run on Google App Engine and Google Compute Engine. Cloud Source Repositories also provides a source viewer that you can use to browse repository files.

4 AWS CodeCommit —

AWS CodeCommit is a fully-managed source control service that hosts secure Git-based repositories. It makes it easy for teams to collaborate on code in a secure and highly scalable ecosystem. CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure.

5 Launchpad —

Launchpad is a web application and website that allows users to develop and maintain software, particularly open-source software. It is developed and maintained by Canonical Ltd. On 21 July 2009, the source code was released publicly under the GNU Affero General Public License.

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