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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    GitHub

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AGitHub is a platform that hosts public and private code and provides software development and collaboration tools. Features include version control, issue tracking, code review, team management, syntax highlighting, etc. Personal plans ($0-50), Organizational plans ($0-200), and Enterprise plans are available.

    $4

    per month per user

    Pricing
    GitHub
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $40
    per year per user
    Enterprise
    $210
    per year per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GitHub
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    GitHub
    Considered Both Products
    GitHub
    Chose GitHub
    Comparing between GitHub, GitLab and Mercurial, I felt real hard to work with Mercurial, since the application interface was really bad. Bug GitHub and GitLab windows applications were too great compared to Mercurial. If I have to compare between GitLab and GitHub, Most of the …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    GitHub comes handy in terms of usage and capabilities, it is easy to use and quite a user friendly tools when it comes to user experience, with limited UI/UX and it has vast exposure when it comes to third party integration and being quite mature and yet evolving and popular …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    Over my career I've used a variety of other platforms but always find myself coming back to GitHub which has always had the most forward thinking features, evolving faster than other platforms, staying on the cutting edge of AI and other tools as they are released. AI …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    GitLab has strong code review and project management capabilities, but it has a smaller community. Better for cross-functional collaboration but less intuitive for nontechnical users.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    GitHub has best in class UI, massive open source base. GitHub actions are very flexible and pricing is very competitive.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    Bitbucket in most cases is very similar. Though the UI and collaboration tools are much easier to use overall on GitHub.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    Have not used anything else yet but evaluating GitLab to migrate over.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    GitHub compared to GitLab and Bitbucket seems to have an easier and nice to use interface. This is mainly due to the fact that GitHub is the No1 choice for most of the Open Source projects. Developers out there are already famaliar to it's UX/UI and use it every day.

    Another …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    GitHub is primarily targeted at developers and open-source communities, while Bitbucket is geared more towards small- to medium-sized businesses. GitHub has a free plan for open-source projects, while Bitbucket charges a fee for private repositories. For organizations with …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    Github has much better code view/search/edit power versus Bitbucket, and is the industry standard for professional software developers.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    GitHub is the best platform to manage your source code. You can manage your CI/CD with different cloud service provider platforms and different languages. You can also create GHE for a number of organizations and repositories. Learning GitHub is easy and simple and supports …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    GitHub stacks up against all of its competitors due to its ease of use and great UI that tops the all. I selected GitHub considering its popularity greater developer community. GitHub also provides Student Developer Pack that we can use to enhance our knowledge and get up to …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    While SVN comes with basic functionalities, TFS is a superior tool and often unused to its potential in most cases. GitHub brings that equilibrium. It perfectly works like a versioning tool and can also be used to create CICD deployment pipelines.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    GitHub is distributed model while perforce is more centralised .i.e. Developers can easily download full change history.
    Git is better in terms of performance as it provides faster result.
    Also Git is open source and available free of cost. Git is also storage effective with …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    One biggest reason is that GitHub is popular and used by many so it is easy to get contributions this also means that most people are already familiar with using GitHub. GitLab does offer more features and has more rich pipelines with the free repository as well but GitHub is …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    GitHub is awesome at it's own place. I'm using it from last 3 years and not used so GitLab or Bitbucket so much. They are also having almost same features but i think one of then is free for multiple branches.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    GitHub gives support for open-source applications. I think it has an easier and more reliable interface compared to other products on the market. You are able to expose your work via GitHub so that it can be used as a proof of your work to your current employer or future …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    It was the broader set of features and how easy it is to browse the history that made us change to GitHub, and time has proven us right.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    GitHub is the de-facto solution for version control and code storage. Our team prefers it over other options like Bitbucket for its feature-completeness.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    GitHub is less expensive with an easier learning curve.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    GitHub is at least as good as Bitbucket, if not a little more refined. GitHub is hands-down better than TFS. If you are using TFS, you really need to move to a modern source control system. The newer Azure DevOps Server has a decent Git offering, but the UX is incredibly …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    Bitbucket is a very similar tool, but you can have multiple private repositories and it's easy to integrate it with JIRA.
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    In the past, we used Beanstalk and were happy with it. Going forward, GitHub makes it easier for us to work with open-source projects and with new temporary developers who might not be familiar with Beanstalk.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    47 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    46 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    38 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    Features
    GitHub
    Version Control Software Features
    Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of GitHub
    Feature
    GitHub
    9.4
    10 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Branching and Merging9.710 Ratings
    Version History9.710 Ratings
    Version Control Collaboration Tools9.89 Ratings
    Pull Requests9.710 Ratings
    Code Review Tools8.89 Ratings
    Project Access Control9.210 Ratings
    Automated Testing Integration8.810 Ratings
    Issue Tracking Integration8.910 Ratings
    Branch Protection9.89 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    GitHub
    Small Businesses
    Git
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Git
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Perforce P4
    Score7.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GitHub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.9
    (131 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (26 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GitHub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GitHub
    GitHub is an easy to go tool when it comes to Version Controlling, CI/CD workflows, Integration with third party softwares. It's effective for any level of CI/CD implementation you would like to. Also the the cost of product is also very competitive and affordable. As of now GitHub lacks capabilities when it comes to detailed project management in comparison to tools like Jira, but overall its value for money.
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    Pros
    GitHub
    • Version control: GitHub provides a powerful and flexible Git-based version control system that allows teams to track changes to their code over time, collaborate on code with others, and maintain a history of their work.
    • Code review: GitHub's pull request system enables teams to review code changes, discuss suggestions and merge changes in a central location. This makes it easier to catch bugs and ensure that code quality remains high.
    • Collaboration: GitHub provides a variety of collaboration tools to help teams work together effectively, including issue tracking, project management, and wikis.
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    Cons
    GitHub
    • Not an easy tool for beginners. Prior command-line experience is expected to get started with GitHub efficiently.
    • Unlike other source control platforms GitHub is a little confusing. With no proper GUI tool its hard to understand the source code version/history.
    • Working with larger files can be tricky. For file sizes above 100MB, GitHub expects the developer to use different commands (lfs).
    • While using the web version of GitHub, it has some restrictions on the number of files that can be uploaded at once. Recommended action is to use the command-line utility to add and push files into the repository.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    GitHub
    GitHub's ease of use and continued investment into the Developer Experience have made it the de facto tool for our engineers to manage software changes. With new features that continue to come out, we have been able to consolidate several other SaaS solutions and reduce the number of tools required for each engineer to perform their job responsibilities.
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    Usability
    GitHub
    GitHub is a clean and modern interface. The underlying integrations make it smooth to couple tasks, projects, pull requests and other business functions together. The insights and reporting is really strong and is getting better with every release. GitHub's PR tooling is strong for being web based, i do believe a better code editor would rival having to pull merge conflicts into local IDE.
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    Support Rating
    GitHub
    There are a ton of resources and tutorials for GitHub online. The sheer number of people who use GitHub ensures that someone has the exact answer you are looking for. The docs on GitHub itself are very thorough as well. You will often find an official doc along with the hundreds of independent tutorials that answers your question, which is unusual for most online services.
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    Alternatives Considered
    GitHub
    While I don't have very much experience with these 2 solutions, they're two of the most popular alternatives to GitHub. Bitbucket is from Atlassian, which may make sense for a team that is already using other Atlassian tools like Jira, Confluence, and Trello, as their integration will likely be much tighter. Gitlab on the other hand has a reputation as a very capable GitHub replacement with some features that are not available on GitHub like firewall tools.
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    Return on Investment
    GitHub
    • Team collaboration significantly improved as everything is clearly logged and maintained.
    • Maintaining a good overview of items will be delivered wrt the roadmap for example.
    • Knowledge management and tracking. Over time a lot of tickets, issues and comments are logged. GitHub is a great asset to go back and review why x was y.
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