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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- Sites searched
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01 · Entity
About git-scm.com
git-scm.com
Git
Wikidata: distributed version control system
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
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.
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The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Very close cos 0.914 - 02
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.
Very close cos 0.912 - 03
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.
Very close cos 0.909 - 04
Google Open Source
Google <3 Open Source
Very close cos 0.902 - 05
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.
Very close cos 0.904 - 06
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.
Very close cos 0.900 - 07
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.
Very close cos 0.901 - 08
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.
Close cos 0.893 - 09
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Close cos 0.892 - 10
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Close cos 0.893 - 11
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.
Close cos 0.890 - 12
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.
Close cos 0.891 - 13
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Close cos 0.889 - 14
Welcome – Gentoo Linux
The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.
Close cos 0.886 - 15
The Go Programming Language
Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.
Close cos 0.886 - 16
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Close cos 0.886 - 17
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.886 - 18
Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting
Polish wiki hosting corporation
Close cos 0.886 - 19
Arch Linux
Linux distribution
Close cos 0.885 - 20 Close cos 0.882
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
- Cloudflare DNS NS tori.ns.cloudflare.com
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what git-scm.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on git-scm.com 14/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on git-scm.com 5/20
- nginx · not on git-scm.com 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on git-scm.com 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on git-scm.com 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on git-scm.com 3/20
- OpenAI · not on git-scm.com 3/20
- Atlassian · not on git-scm.com 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on git-scm.com 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on git-scm.com 3/20
- Matomo · not on git-scm.com 3/20
- jQuery 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on git-scm.com 2/20
- HubSpot · not on git-scm.com 2/20