GitHub AlternativesOnly Free apps categorised as Source Code Hosting Services

The best free Source Code Hosting alternative to GitHub is GitLab, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to GitHub and many of them are free Source Code Hosting Services so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Source Code Hosting Service alternatives to GitHub are Codeberg, Bitbucket, SourceForge and Gogs.

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  1. GitLab icon
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    Provides a robust platform for on-premise or hosted Git repository management, integrating seamlessly with various dev tools, facilitating efficient workflow through offerings like issue tracking, code reviews, continuous integration, CI/CD pipelines, and option for unlimited private repositories.

    124 GitLab alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Cloudron
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  2. Codeberg icon
     139 likes

    A free Git source code hosting service with the objective to give the open-source code that is running our world a safe and friendly home, and to ensure that code remains free and secure forever.

    57 Codeberg alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
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  3. Bitbucket icon
     409 likes

    Provides Git repository hosting with integrated issue tracking, wiki for documentation, pull requests, code review features, support for public and private repos, CI/CD integration, branch permissions, team collaboration, notification tools, and API access.

    86 Bitbucket alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Online
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  4. SourceForge icon
     346 likes

    Centralized open source platform providing code hosting for 502,000+ projects, version control, analytics, project wikis, software reviews, and access to a business software directory listing over 50,000 titles, serving millions of downloads and users monthly.

    83 SourceForge alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  5. Gogs icon
     141 likes

    The easiest, fastest, and most painless way of setting up a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this can be done with an independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and ARM.

    47 Gogs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Cloudron
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  6. Forgejo icon
     72 likes

    Beyond coding. We forge. Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

    60 Forgejo alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Cloudron
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  7. Gitea icon
     185 likes

    Gitea is a fork of Gogs, lightweight code hosting solution written in Go and published under the MIT license.

    53 Gitea alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Cloudron
    • Chocolatey
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  8. GitBucket icon
     54 likes

    GitBucket is the easily installable open-source GitHub clone written with Scala.

    65 GitBucket alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Scala
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  9. SourceHut icon
     29 likes

    sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.

    24 SourceHut alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  10. Radicle icon
     21 likes

    Peer-to-peer, open source stack built on Git enables decentralized, censorship-resistant code sharing and local-first data control, employing cryptographic verification, extensible collaborative objects, modular interfaces, and seamless data migration with no central entity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  11. gitdot icon
     5 likes

    Open-source platform focused on quality for developers, featuring a highly performant Git server written in Rust, code review with stacked diffs, and a secure, locally testable, and reproducible CI/CD system. Avoids unnecessary AI, encourages code craftsmanship.

    50 gitdot alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Rust
    • Homebrew
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  12. Launchpad icon
     112 likes

    Launchpad is a collaboration and Bazaar code hosting platform for (primarily open-source) software projects.

    101 Launchpad alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Python
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