Budget & alternatives · Prompt 8 of 8 · July 2026

A real buyer question from the July 2026 snapshot, asked 3× to each of the three models. 9 answers recorded.

“What's a good alternative to the biggest code hosting platforms?”

ChatGPT answered 3× this snapshot

If you mean alternatives to GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, there are a few solid directions depending on what you care about—privacy, simplicity, decentralization, or just “not Big Tech.” If you want something closest in feel to GitHub: Codeberg – probably the most popular non-corporate option right now. It’s based on Gitea, community-run, and pretty smooth. Gitea.com / Forgejo instances – lightweight, fast, and…

Named across its answers: 1. Codeberg2. Gitea3. SourceHut4. Forgejo5. Radicle

Verbatim excerpt from one collected ChatGPT answer; formatting flattened, words untouched.

Who wins this question

Owned Consensus

All three models name Codeberg, Gitea, SourceHut, Forgejo and Radicle on this question.

ChatGPT

Claude

Gemini mentioned · first · avg. pos

Codeberg 11315111 8/9 · 6× first · #1.8

SourceHut 26424422 8/9 · never first · #3.3

Radicle 35836565 8/9 · never first · #5.1

Gitea 5211233 7/9 · 2× first · #2.4

Forgejo 4322344 7/9 · never first · #3.1

GitLab 648 3/9 · never first · #6

Fossil 947 3/9 · never first · #6.7

Launchpad 686 3/9 · never first · #6.7

AWS CodeCommit 51 2/9 · 1× first · #3

Gogs 53 2/9 · never first · #4

Azure DevOps 62 2/9 · never first · #4

OneDev 5 1/9 · never first · #5

Each square is one collected answer; the number is the brand's position in that answer. Lime = the very first recommendation. Unlinked brands were named by the models here but sit outside this category's published top 15 overall. Showing the top 12 of 19 brands named at least once. Never mentioned here: GitHub, Bitbucket, GitHub Enterprise, Jira, Linear, CircleCI.