Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Open Source
The 20 closest source code hosting alternatives to Open Source, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Open Source? The closest matches are GitHub, Codeberg e.V. and git-scm.com. 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.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 8 ms
01 · Entity
About Open Source
Open Source googlesource.com
Google Open Source
Google <3 Open Source
Summary by Claude
googlesource.com hosts Google's Git repositories for open source projects such as Android, Chromium and Go, and its homepage redirects to Google's Open Source portal covering released projects, programs like Google Summer of Code, and the open source blog.
- Who it’s for
- Open source developers and contributors
- Business model
- None (corporate open source program)
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Open Source’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 Open Source
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Open Source, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
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 0.909 - 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 0.905 - 03
Git
distributed version control system
Very close cos 0.902 - 04
web.dev
Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.
Very close cos 0.898 - 05
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close cos 0.896 - 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.
Close cos 0.893 - 07
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.893 - 08
The Go Programming Language
Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.
Close cos 0.891 - 09
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Close cos 0.891 - 10
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Close cos 0.891 - 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 0.887 - 12
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.
Close cos 0.888 - 13
Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
Close cos 0.883 - 14
News from Google | Google Product and Technology News and Stories
Get the latest news and stories about Google products, technology and innovation on News from Google, Google's official blog.
Close cos 0.883 - 15
RustDesk: Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions
RustDesk is open-source remote desktop software for your own self-hosted server, a TeamViewer and AnyDesk alternative for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
Close cos 0.882 - 16
Home - KDE Community
KDE is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.
Close cos 0.881 - 17
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Close cos 0.883 - 18
JS.ORG - the JavaScript organization
Dedicated to JavaScript and its awesome community since 2015
Close cos 0.881 - 19
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Close cos 0.882 - 20
Plausible Analytics | Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative
Plausible is a lightweight and open-source Google Analytics alternative. Your website data is 100% yours and the privacy of your visitors is respected.
Close cos 0.880
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to googlesource.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Open Source uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Open Source is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header server: Google Frontend
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=aKPj1-sx06iXKc9x6HT0XeWo-iYmuob1fIP4caoHCkc
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Open Source adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 13/20
- Cloudflare · not on googlesource.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on googlesource.com 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on googlesource.com 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on googlesource.com 6/20
- Google Fonts 4/20
- Matomo · not on googlesource.com 4/20
- Atlassian · not on googlesource.com 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on googlesource.com 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on googlesource.com 3/20
- jQuery · not on googlesource.com 3/20
- Google Cloud 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on googlesource.com 3/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on googlesource.com 3/20
- Adobe · not on googlesource.com 2/20
- Apple Business · not on googlesource.com 2/20