⚡ Code Hosting

Code hosting platforms allow developers to store, manage, and collaborate on source code using version control systems such as Git, enabling distributed development and maintaining complete histories of changes across projects.

They provide repositories with access control, branching and merging workflows, and pull or merge requests for structured code review and collaboration.

They also include issue and project tracking, integrated continuous integration and deployment pipelines, documentation hosting, release management, and tools that support team-based development.

According to our research, code hosting platforms are detected on 2.4% of all websites.
97.7% of these sites use only one code hosting platform, 2.1% use two, and 0.2% use three or more of them.

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⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading code hosting platforms in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is GitHub, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 97.4% share.
It is followed by GitLab with 1.9% and SourceForge with 1.7%.

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of platforms that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

✨ Best Code Hosting Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 11 code hosting platforms we track, ranked by their market share.

RankNameMarket share
1
GitHub
San Francisco, California, United States

A cloud-based platform for code hosting, version control, and collaborative software development built around the Git system and owned by Microsoft.

Free$4+/user/month
2
GitLab
San Francisco, California, United States

A web-based DevOps platform for collaborative software development, project management, source control, and automation built around the Git system.

Free$29+/user/month
3
SourceForge
San Diego, California, United States

A software platform with an open-source project repository, bug tracking, wiki, and Git and SVN integration.

Free
4
Google Code Archive
Mountain View, California, United States

Google Code was a code hosting service for open source projects.

FreeLegacy
5
Bitbucket
Sydney, Australia

A Git code management solution built for professional teams.

Free$3.30+/user/month
6
Codeberg
Berlin, Germany

A non-profit collaboration platform for hosting and developing free and open-source software projects, built on the Forgejo Git-based software forge.

Free
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Gitea
Lewes, Delaware, United States

An open-source Git-based platform written in Go for hosting source code and managing software development projects, originally created as a fork of Gogs.

FreeOpen source$9.5+/user/month
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Forgejo
Berlin, Germany

An open-source, Git-based code hosting and collaboration platform that started as a fork of Gitea.

FreeOpen source
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Cgit
New York, United States

An open-source web frontend for Git repositories written in C that provides a lightweight interface for browsing source code, commits, and repository history.

FreeOpen source
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GitWeb
New York, United States

A Perl-based web interface for browsing Git repositories that is provided as part of the Git project and available as a CGI script.

FreeOpen source
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Gogs

An open-source, self-hosted Git service written in Go that provides a lightweight platform for hosting repositories and managing development workflows.

FreeOpen source

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