Alternatives and competitors

Sites like git-scm.com

The 20 closest version control software alternatives to git-scm.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to git-scm.com? The closest matches are Linux kernel, Gitea and Codeberg e.V.. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About git-scm.com

git-scm.com

Git

Wikidata: distributed version control system

Top 10K · #1,970 English 4 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit git-scm.com

Summary by Claude

Official website of Git, the free open source distributed version control system, offering downloads, documentation, the free Pro Git book, reference manuals and lists of GUI clients and hosting services.

Who it’s for
Software developers
Business model
None (open source project)

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to git-scm.com’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

nginxGitLabRead the DocsGiteeGitHubOpen SourceGitBookCodeberg e.V.GiteaLinux kernel

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to git-scm.com

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to git-scm.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Linux kernel kernel.org Top 10K English

    The Linux Kernel Archives

    Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems

  2. 02
    Gitea gitea.com Top 10K

    Gitea Official Website

    Gitea - Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

  3. 03
    Codeberg e.V. codeberg.org Top 10K English

    Codeberg.org

    Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

  4. 04
    GitBook gitbook.io Top 10K English

    The knowledge layer for AI | GitBook

    GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.

  5. 05
    Open Source googlesource.com Top 10K English

    Google Open Source

    Google <3 Open Source

  6. 06
    GitHub github.com Top 100 English

    GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub

    Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.

  7. 07
    Gitee gitee.com Top 10K Chinese

    Gitee - 基于 Git 的代码托管和研发协作平台

    面向企业提供一站式研发管理解决方案,包括代码管理、项目管理、文档协作、测试管理、CICD、效能度量等多个模块,支持SaaS、私有化等多种部署方式,帮助企业有序规划和管理研发过程,提升研发效率和质量。

  8. 08
    Read the Docs readthedocs.io Top 1K English

    Full featured documentation deployment platform - Read the Docs

    Read the Docs is a documentation building and hosting platform aimed at helping developers creating documentation from code with versioned documentation, integrated search, pull request previews and more.

  9. 09
    GitLab gitlab.com Top 1K English

    GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering

    Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.

  10. 10
    nginx nginx.org Top 100

    nginx

    open source web server and a reverse proxy server

  11. 11
    GNU gnu.org Top 1K English

    The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement

    Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.

  12. 12
    FreeBSD freebsd.org Top 10K English

    The FreeBSD Project

    free Unix-like operating system

  13. 13
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

  14. 14
    SourceForge sourceforge.net Top 1K English

    Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge

    SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well as free & fast open source software downloads and development.

  15. 15
    Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English

    Welcome to Open Library | Open Library

    Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

  16. 16
    PHP php.net Top 1K English

    PHP

    PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

  17. 17
    Gentoo Linux gentoo.org Top 10K English

    Welcome – Gentoo Linux

    The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.

  18. 18
    Go go.dev Top 10K English

    The Go Programming Language

    Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.

  19. 19
    Zotero zotero.org Top 10K English

    Zotero | Your personal research assistant

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

  20. 20
    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to git-scm.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones git-scm.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What git-scm.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.7.1.min.js
CDN
  • Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56306541c6a21ff-HAM
  • Fastly header x-fastly-request-id: 241f15dc1448da9e1ee4b71aaaa6cae8239e7239
DNS hosting

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