⚡ Code Hosting in China

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.

China is an East Asian country with a population of around 1.4 billion people.

According to our research, code hosting platforms are detected on 1.2% of websites from China.

Statistics based on 84K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is GitHub, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 98.7% share.
It is followed by GitLab with 1.1% and SourceForge with 0.8%.

GitHub 98.7%
GitLab 1.1%
SourceForge 0.8%
Google Code Archive 0.7%
Gogs 0.2%
Gitea 0.2%
Bitbucket 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top platforms that are more popular in China than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

5. Gogs ^(-7)
6. Gitea ^(-2)

✨ Best Code Hosting Platforms

Below is a more detailed list of 7 code hosting platforms used on sites from China, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market 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	98.7%
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	1.1%
3	SourceForge San Diego, California, United States A web-based software platform that hosts open-source projects and provides bug tracking, wiki, and Git and SVN integration. Free	0.8%
4	Google Code Archive Mountain View, California, United States Google Code was a code hosting service for open source projects. FreeLegacy	0.7%
5	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	0.2%
6	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	0.2%
7	Bitbucket Sydney, Australia A Git-based code hosting and collaboration platform for professional teams that supports repository management, code review, and built-in CI/CD workflows. Free$3.30+/user/month	0.1%

👉 See Also

🌎 Code Hosting in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 84,392 websites from China.
We currently track the presence of 12 code hosting platforms across the web.
Of these, 7 were detected on websites from China.
Statistics were last calculated on June 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.