Atlassian Bitbucket vs. Bitbucket Server (discontinued) vs. SourceForge

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bitbucket
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Bitbucket is a Git repository and code collaboration platform, featuring automated testing and code deployment. Bitbucket Cloud Premium provides AI-powered development, more granular access controls, and enforced code quality, and Bitbucket Data Center provides a self-hosted option.
$0
Bitbucket Server (discontinued)
Score 4.0 out of 10
N/A
Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) from Atlassian was a self-hosted source code management solution. The product is no longer available for sale, and support for existing licenses ended in 2024.N/A
SourceForge
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
SourceForge is a B2B software discovery platform, featuring 4000+ categories in its comparison engine that potential buyers can use to compare software by user reviews, features, pricing, integrations, operating system, and deployment.N/A
Pricing
Atlassian BitbucketBitbucket Server (discontinued)SourceForge
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
for up to 5 users
Standard
$3.30
per month per user
Premium
$6.60
per month per user
Bitbucket Data Center
starting at $44,000
per year 1 - 500
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BitbucketBitbucket Server (discontinued)SourceForge
Free Trial
YesNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Atlassian BitbucketBitbucket Server (discontinued)SourceForge
Considered Multiple Products
Bitbucket
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
I haven't really researched a whole lot with GitHub or SourceForge. I know there are a lot of people that use GitHub and it has kind of become a bit part of the industry. Whenever i have used GitHub to submit pull requests it has also seemed pretty easy to do, but I haven't …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
All 3 software works well for development and source code control, but for sure Bitbucket is the easiest to be set up and be deployed among the team. The integration with JIRA makes this a powerful tool against coding-only applications. However, for open source, it would be …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
GitHub has a huge community to support, so, beside the price, is the best tool I've used as a git server.
Gitlab is very similar to BitBucket, and for a free version as less limitations. Also is cheaper for companies, but doesn't have a smooth integration with JIRA. Also has a …
Chose Atlassian Bitbucket
Drastically simpler both in pricing and ease of use than the competition. For only $10/month your team has unlimited private repos! That is an outright bargain! If you are a small team that doesn't require all of the advanced services that come with larger infrastructure and …
Bitbucket Server (discontinued)
Chose Bitbucket Server (discontinued)
It can be daunting to set up a Git server for a developer. Managing it can be more time consuming than you want it to be. Stash helps you out by handling what you likely need. If you are already a Git pro, you won't need it, but our team loves the simplicity that Stash brings …
SourceForge
Chose SourceForge
I use SourceForge because here you can easily filter out and find the right software, and it has a huge collection of open-source software with trustworthy reviews.
Chose SourceForge
I just think SourceForge is the best for a person who's not really interested in the code but only wants a trustworthy way to read about and decide which software to use.
Chose SourceForge
Once again I must circle back to the incident(s) in the past where SourceForge adulterated abandoned projects... I dislike that practice immensely.

I have selected against SourceForge in my usage for the stated reasons, and have moved on to GitHub, especially as private …
Features
Atlassian BitbucketBitbucket Server (discontinued)SourceForge
Version Control Software Features
Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of Product A and Product B
Atlassian Bitbucket
8.1
3 Ratings
7% below category average
Bitbucket Server (discontinued)
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Ratings
SourceForge
-
Ratings
Branching and Merging9.13 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Version History9.63 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Version Control Collaboration Tools9.43 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Pull Requests9.83 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Review Tools4.32 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Access Control9.83 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated Testing Integration4.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue Tracking Integration8.53 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Branch Protection8.12 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Atlassian BitbucketBitbucket Server (discontinued)SourceForge
Small Businesses
Git
Git
Score 10.0 out of 10
Git
Git
Score 10.0 out of 10
Trustpilot
Trustpilot
Score 6.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Git
Git
Score 10.0 out of 10
Git
Git
Score 10.0 out of 10
Trustpilot
Trustpilot
Score 6.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Perforce P4
Perforce P4
Score 7.2 out of 10
Perforce P4
Perforce P4
Score 7.2 out of 10

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User Ratings
Atlassian BitbucketBitbucket Server (discontinued)SourceForge
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(65 ratings)
8.9
(11 ratings)
9.9
(28 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
6.4
(2 ratings)
Usability
9.5
(4 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
9.3
(5 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(14 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
6.4
(10 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
6.4
(2 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
-
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10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
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9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Atlassian BitbucketBitbucket Server (discontinued)SourceForge
Likelihood to Recommend
Atlassian
As a team we need to push code into the repo on daily basis, Bitbucket has proven that is a reliable and secure server to save and get the code available in no time. The administration part is really easy and there's an extra tool for every developer profile either if you want to use the console or a GUI like Sourcetree.
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Discontinued Products
Bitbucket Server would be good to use if you are not extremely reliant on the availability of your code at any given moment. If you have other systems relying on the up status of Bitbucket Server that can cause problems if unable to reach it -- you might consider going with a different product
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SourceForge
I recommend SourceForge to anyone or business that needs both commercial and open source software. This platform has a wide variety of software with many categories that allow easy search for any project, in addition to the fact that searches can be done separately (commercial and open source software) so as not to have mixed results which go with different purpose. In addition to the fact that the community of this platform is quite active and that there are always times to discover new projects that can be useful for a company or individual person.
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Pros
Atlassian
  • Very easy to integrate with other DevOps tools like Jenkins and with project/workflow management tools like JIRA.
  • Very efficient in managing security and compliance standards for code, especially during pull requests, merge requests, branching, etc.
  • Very robust in performance, especially the cloud and datacenter versions hardly hit any performance issues and supports more than 2000+ developers in my company.
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Discontinued Products
  • Pull requests / code reviews are simple but effective - it's easy to discuss the changes and enforce quality gates (through integration with Bamboo)
  • The access control model is fairly granular, with per-branch and per-action permission configuration options
  • There are various plugins available to extend functionality, such as SonarQube
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SourceForge
  • Commercial software and FOSS projects are available.
  • FOSS projects have advanced profiles such as software hosting for download as well as download metrics. As well as the released versions.
  • Commercial software profiles show detailed features, what it offers, price, frequently asked questions and a vast amount of user reviews.
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Cons
Atlassian
  • The code management UI is a bit rough around the edges and difficult to work with.
  • BitBucket does not have the same simplified PR management tools as other competitors.
  • It's not as easy to integrate 3rd party apps as other competitors.
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Discontinued Products
  • Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) should be evaluated for implementation based on the capacity of the environment ownership and support.
  • Insights and analytics reports are basic.
  • Bitbucket Server (formerly Stash) as part of Atlassian tools has some restrictions for centralized user management.
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SourceForge
  • The overall design that SourceForge has really leaves a lot to be desired, although the entire platform works perfectly, I think that the design should be much more attractive.
  • There is currently no feature to save your progress on a review you are writing, so if you are writing a review and the browser is closed for some reason, all progress of the written review will be lost.
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Likelihood to Renew
Atlassian
All products have room for improvement. The system improves over time with better and better integrations and I look forward to even more features without paying extra! The system has increased transparency across my organization and with this transparency comes increased throughput on projects. I don't think I can go back to any other system and we are definitely married to this product.
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Discontinued Products
Because we're so locked in, it's likely we'll be using Bitbucket Server for a while, unfortunately.
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SourceForge
Souceforge was very straightforward and easy to manage. The leads worked for us so there is not a lot else to say about why I'd use it again. This isn't some complicated software product, it is a simple inbound marketing channel that is meant to generate leads and help us with brand awareness and it did exactly that.
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Usability
Atlassian
The architecture of Bitbucket makes it more easily scalable than other source code management repositories. Also, administration and maintaining the instance is very easy. It integrates with JIRA and other CI/CD applications which makes it more useful to reduce the efforts. It supports multiple plugins and those bring a lot of extra functionality. It increases the overall efficiency and usefulness of Bitbucket.
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Discontinued Products
The usability of its interface is pretty straight forward when it comes to creating projects and repositories, but when you have to dive into finer grained portions of the UI things can get tricky. If you are used to using tools like GitHub or Gitlab -- Bitbucket is just different enough to be a bother.
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SourceForge
SourceForge is super easy to use and very intuitive. And their support team and campaign managers help whenever we need it. Using SourceForge as a user is easy, and administrating a business software listing is easy as well. They also have great documentation.
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Reliability and Availability
Atlassian
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Discontinued Products
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SourceForge
We've never had any issues or downtime with SourceForge. Since we've been a user, the platform has never been down. Or at least never that I've noticed.
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Performance
Atlassian
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Discontinued Products
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SourceForge
SourceForge loads extremely quickly whether you're using the front end or administrating your product listing on the back end. All pages are snappy to load--no issues with page speed whatsoever.
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Support Rating
Atlassian
The customer support provided by Atlassian (Bitbucket's parent company that also makes Jira, Confluence, etc.) is very helpful. They seem to be very concerned about any issues reported with their products and even just questions about functionality. They are constantly improving the products with new features in nearly every release. Plus they have a plethora of online documentation to reference.
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Discontinued Products
Never really needed any support as the application is very easy to set up and maintain. Any questions we had were well documented in their online documentation, and community forum.
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SourceForge
I hardly ever use the support on SourceForge, as I have not needed it. Their product works well for me. One time I had to email them and they got back to me the same day, but that's my only experience.
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Online Training
Atlassian
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Discontinued Products
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SourceForge
When we first signed up, they pair you with a campaign manager who trained us on how to use the product properly. The product is simple so the training was only about 30 minutes and after that we understood all the features and how to make the most of it. Most of the work came with making a custom landing page and building a follow up process for our sales team.
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Implementation Rating
Atlassian
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Discontinued Products
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SourceForge
We have used this service mainly to read explicit opinions that influenced the decision-making when implementing new software for my company
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Alternatives Considered
Atlassian
For the features we were looking at, Bitbucket, GitHub and GitLab were all at par and were in a similar price range. We found that GitHub was the most full featured should we need to scale very quickly. GitLab was at par with GitHub for our future needs, but GitHub was a more familiar tool compared to GitLab. Bitbucket won out because of its close integration with Jira and being in the Atlassian family. It was also cheaper than GitHub. As we started with Jira, Bitbucket addition became a natural next step for us. We really liked Bitbucket and stayed with it but we do know we have great options in the form of GitHub and GitLab should we need to scale fast.
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Discontinued Products
Stash was selected before I was at the company, but we're looking at these alternatives and actively considering switching. Stash seems to have all the necessary features we need to make it work, but it doesn't have any bells and whistles or extra special features that we can use to create more advanced integrations with other products like Jenkins or Amazon Web Services.
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SourceForge
G2 has a larger commitment time upfront and for a more expensive rate, which wasn't the best option for our team as we were just exploring the resources that existed out there at the time. We preferred Sourceforge as well due to its subscription service, making it easier to commit from the start.
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Scalability
Atlassian
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Discontinued Products
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SourceForge
SourceForge has been plenty scalable for us. Our marketing department is able to edit listings and our executives can also log in to the platform if need be for leads and reporting information. SourceForge offers multiple user access and role permissions, so it's pretty scalable and easy to use for our entire team.
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Return on Investment
Atlassian
  • It's allowed for a lot of automation in terms of development workflows. It lets us pursue CI/CD approaches and get releases out faster
  • It has let us get our infrastructure configuration into VCS, which further improves our automation abilities.
  • It has aided in keeping track of changes, and allows us to keep workflows organized so we can track the status of development
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Discontinued Products
  • Stash has certainly improved the productivity of the team. We no longer have to use Shared Drive on network which is prone to hacks and errors to manage our code.
  • During the process of releases, the release engineering team can pull the latest and approved code from Stash and need not be dependent upon the availability of the developers during their non availability. It improves productivity and fastens the ETA for requests.
  • We have stayed on course for project deadlines since introduction of Stash and helps us achieve the goals of timely completion of projects.
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SourceForge
  • It allowed us to learn more about the features and functions of some software that we currently use.
  • It allowed me to improve my decision-making for the software we use in the project area.
  • It helped us to replace several programs that were used in our company. We made several replacements, for much more optimal alternatives.
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