September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Leader emerging

Code Hosting & Collaboration: AI Visibility Ranking

Git hosting and code collaboration platforms for pull requests, code review, and CI integration. Right now, GitHub is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 88 and the #1 spot in 88% of answers. Head-to-head: GitHub vs GitLab →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. When the models DO search the web, see which sources they cite. Methodology.

GitLab and GitHub trade blows with no separator between them.

A 1.5-point gap separates GitLab and GitHub at the top, yet the two brands tell opposite stories: GitHub converts 78% of its mentions into first-pick position while GitLab converts under 6%, meaning GitLab shows up more but rarely leads the recommendation. Bitbucket sits in a strange middle ground, mentioned in 81% of answers but never chosen first, making it a persistent also-ran. Azure DevOps scores just 30 overall and gets its strongest signal from Gemini at 40, suggesting even its best case is weak visibility.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Trend (3 mo)	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	GitHub	88 ±0	flat	88%	1.0	88%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #1 Gemini #1
2	GitLab	79 ±3.7	flat	88%	1.9	6%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #2 Gemini #2
3	Bitbucket	64 ±5.8	flat	81%	3.1	0%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #3 Gemini #3
4	Azure DevOps	30 ±5.1	flat	43%	4.0	0%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #4 Gemini #4
5	Gitea	11 ±4.8	flat	14%	3.0	3%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #5 Gemini #9
6	Forgejo	10 ±4	flat	14%	3.7	0%	ChatGPT #6 Claude #8 Gemini #6
7	SourceHut	10 ±3.8	flat	14%	3.8	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #6 Gemini #10
8	Codeberg	9 ±2.7	▼ 7	13%	3.6	4%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #7 Gemini #5
9	Radicle	8 ±1.8	flat	14%	5.4	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #9 Gemini #7
10	AWS CodeCommit	5 ±1.9	flat	10%	5.9	0%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #11 Gemini #14
11	GitLab Ultimate	4 ±0	▲ 3	4%	2.0	0%	ChatGPT Claude Gemini #8
12	Replit	3 ±1	flat	4%	4.7	0%	ChatGPT Claude Gemini #11
13	Gogs	2 ±2.2	flat	3%	3.0	0%	ChatGPT Claude #10 Gemini
14	Bitbucket Data Center	2 ±2.9	flat	3%	3.5	0%	ChatGPT #9 Claude Gemini #13
15	Fossil	2 ±1.9	flat	4%	6.0	0%	ChatGPT Claude #12 Gemini #12

The ± under each score is the reliability band: how much the number would move if we re-ran the identical measurement. It is tight because each prompt is sampled multiple times. It is not the same as how much the ranking depends on which prompts we ask — a separate, wider figure shown on hover.

Just below the cutoff: Jira (1.8), CircleCI (1.8), Jenkins (1.8), GitLab Enterprise (1.3), Dependabot (1.1). 41 brands were scored in this category; the leaderboard shows the top 15.

Visibility Score: position-weighted presence across all measured answers, 0 to 100. A score of 100 means the brand was the first recommendation in every answer. Every point in a trend line is a live monthly measurement; there is no modeled or backfilled history. Full methodology.

Openness 13/100: the share of this category's recommendation weight not held by the leader.

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Do the models agree?

Per-model Visibility Scores for the top 10. A long gray bar means the three assistants disagree about the brand. Hover a row for exact values.

ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Where they land in the answer

When a brand is mentioned, where does it appear? Box shows the middle 50% of positions, the thick line is the median, whiskers are the extremes. Hover a row for the detail.