ghcr.io
GitHub
Who runs GitHub, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest container registry alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Docker
Measured from GitHub’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit GitHub01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs GitHub
GitHub ghcr.io
Easily build, package, release, update, and deploy your project in any language—on GitHub or any external system—without having to run code yourself.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What GitHub tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 10 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on GitHub’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to GitHub
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to GitHub, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Docker | Secure Sandboxes for AI Agents
Run AI agents and containers safely, anywhere. Docker gives builders trusted sandboxes, governance, and a secure supply chain for modern software.
Very close - 02
GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering
Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.
Very close - 03
Podman
daemonless OCI-compliant container runtime
Very close - 04
Gitea Official Website
Gitea - Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
Very close - 05
Devin Desktop | Devin
Manage any agent, locally or in the cloud, from one command center. Plan, review, and ship with a team of agents.
Very close - 06
Kubernetes
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. Planet scaleDesigned on the same principles that allow Google to run billions of containers a week, Kubernetes can scale without increasing your operations team.
Very close - 07
NuGet Gallery | Home
The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository for NuGet, the package manager for .NET.
Very close - 08
The world’s largest portfolio registry for new domains | Radix Registry
Radix is a leading new domain registry, offering an extensive domain portfolio that empowers digital identities across the globe.
Very close - 09
Handle.Net Registry
Handle.Net Registry is a DONA MPA.
Very close - 10
Mintlify - The documentation platform for agents
Self-updating documentation for startups, enterprises, and agents.
Very close - 11
The knowledge layer for AI | GitBook
GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.
Very close - 12
Home Page
API endpoint
Very close - 13
Cloudflare: Build for the agent era
Welcome to Cloudflare - Powering the next generation of applications
Very close - 14
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close - 15
Docs.rs
official documentation website for Rust libraries
Very close - 16
HAProxy Technologies | Powering the World's Busiest Applications
Simplify, scale, and secure modern applications, APIs, and AI services in any environment. HAProxy Technologies is the company behind HAProxy.
Very close - 17
Archbee — The First Knowledge Portal Platform
Build beautiful knowledge portals that are easy to navigate, search, share and contribute to: user guides, API docs, knowledge bases and SOPs in one platform.
Very close - 18
ORCID
non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers
Very close - 19
RubyGems.org | your community gem host
package manager for Ruby
Very close - 20
package manager for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles GitHub’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones GitHub uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what GitHub adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 4 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,193
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 38 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to GitHub’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- Contentful page source: images.ctfassets.net
- Hosting
- GitHub Pages header server: github.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1349.awsdns-40.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: Apib7-x98H0j5cPqHWwSMm6dNU4GmODRoqxLiDzdx9I
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Google Workspace · not on ghcr.io 13/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on ghcr.io 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on ghcr.io 10/20
- Cloudflare · not on ghcr.io 9/20
- Apple Business · not on ghcr.io 7/20
- Atlassian · not on ghcr.io 5/20
- Fastly · not on ghcr.io 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on ghcr.io 5/20
- OpenAI · not on ghcr.io 5/20
- Salesforce · not on ghcr.io 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on ghcr.io 5/20
- HubSpot · not on ghcr.io 5/20
- Zendesk · not on ghcr.io 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on ghcr.io 3/20
- OneTrust · not on ghcr.io 3/20