github.com
GitHub
Who runs GitHub, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest code hosting platform alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- Last price change
- None seen yet
- Closest alternative
- GitLab
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 github.com
Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.
Wikidata: hosting service for software projects using Git
- 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
14 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
03 · Pricing
What GitHub costs
The prices on GitHub’s pricing page as shown to visitors from Germany, in the order they appear. We check weekly; price changes are listed under What changed.
- $0
- $4
- $21
- $0.18
- $0.07
- $5 per month
- $4 per user / month
- $21 per user / month
04 · Alternatives
Alternatives to GitHub
People compare GitHub with
From Google searches like “github vs sourceforge”, with searches a month.
None of the 60 sites closest to GitHub match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
05 · 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.
06 · 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 and search numbers · 19 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 166 ms
Built with
- CMS
- Contentful page source: images.ctfassets.net
- Marketing automation
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 ip4:192.30.252.0/22 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include…
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=f88ef17321660a01bab1660454192e014defa29ba7b8de963…
- Hosting
- GitHub Pages header server: github.com
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX github-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 ip4:192.30.252.0/22 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-421.awsdns-52.com
- NS1 NS dns2.p08.nsone.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=b92c9e999aef825edc36e0a3d847d2dbad5b2fc0e…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=RyQhdzTl6Z6x8ZP4
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=jjgw98AKv2aeoYFxiL/VFaoyPkn3undEssTRuMg…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=087098e3-3d46-47b7-9b4e-8a23028154cd
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: Apib7-x98H0j5cPqHWwSMm6dNU4GmODRoqxLiDzdx9I
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=39xu4jzl7roi7x0n93ldkxjiaarx50
- Miro TXT miro-verification=d2e174fdb00c71e0bcf58f8e58c3da2dd80dcfa9
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-3nh33eQwdkotMIAzLrIDVZo1
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 ip4:192.30.252.0/22 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include…
Sitemaps
, 92 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Google Workspace · not on github.com 9/20
- Microsoft 365 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on github.com 6/20
- Apple Business 5/20
- Atlassian 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on github.com 5/20
- OpenAI 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on github.com 5/20
- HubSpot · not on github.com 5/20
- Next.js · not on github.com 5/20
- React · not on github.com 5/20
- OneTrust · not on github.com 4/20
- DocuSign 3/20
- Nuxt · not on github.com 3/20
- Stripe 3/20