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.

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01 · Entity

About Open Source

Open Source googlesource.com

Google Open Source

Google <3 Open Source

Top 10K · #2,811 English 3 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit 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

SourceForgeLinux kernelZoteroGoRead the DocsZenodoweb.devgit-scm.comCodeberg e.V.GitHub

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Open Source

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Open Source, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    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.

  2. 02
    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.

  3. 03
    git-scm.com Top 10K English

    Git

    distributed version control system

  4. 04
    web.dev Top 10K English

    web.dev

    Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.

  5. 05
    Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English

    Zenodo

    research data repository

  6. 06
    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.

  7. 07
    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

  8. 08
    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.

  9. 09
    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.

  10. 10
    Linux kernel kernel.org Top 10K English

    The Linux Kernel Archives

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

  11. 11
    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.

  12. 12
    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.

  13. 13
    Apache Software Foundation apache.org Top 1K English

    Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation

    American nonprofit open-source software community

  14. 14
    blog.google Top 10K English

    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.

  15. 15
    RustDesk rustdesk.com Top 10K English

    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.

  16. 16
    KDE kde.org Top 10K English

    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.

  17. 17
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

  18. 18
    JS.ORG js.org Top 10K English

    JS.ORG - the JavaScript organization

    Dedicated to JavaScript and its awesome community since 2015

  19. 19
    DEV Community dev.to Top 10K English

    DEV Community

    A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career

  20. 20
    Plausible Analytics plausible.io Top 10K English

    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.

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.

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Competitors by meaning, stacks from the source. Data from public homepages and DNS.

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