github.io
GitHub
Who runs GitHub, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest static site hosting alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Netlify
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.io
Websites for you and your projects, hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.
- 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; 11 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
Push your ideas to the web | Netlify
Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.
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
Neocities: Create your own free website!
Create and surf awesome websites for free.
Very close - 04
Agentic Infrastructure - Vercel
The autonomous stack for every app and agent.
Close - 05
nekoweb
cuz internet is for the cats
Very close - 06
Render | The cloud for builders
Deploy and scale any app or agent from your first user to your billionth. Build faster on intuitive cloud infrastructure for the modern web.
Very close - 07
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 - 08
Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting
Polish wiki hosting corporation
Very close - 09
Launchpad
software forge
Very close - 10
WebOps Platform for Building High Impact Websites | Pantheon.io
Pantheon.io is the platform built for WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js. We deliver your business needs to build, host, and manage with digital speed and agility.
Very close - 11
Pastebin.com - #1 paste tool since 2002!
Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.
Very close - 12
Web Hosting Built to Grow With You | hosting.com
Web hosting that takes you from idea to website to a lasting business. Fast and secure, with free migration, real experts 24/7 and a 99.9% uptime SLA.
Very close - 13
Web Hosting Built for Growth - DreamHost
DreamHost offers domain names, web hosting, managed WordPress hosting, business email, and much more. 100% uptime guarantee, 24/7 support. Sign up today!
Very close - 14
Railway | The all-in-one intelligent cloud provider
Railway is a full-stack cloud for deploying web apps, servers, databases, and more with automatic scaling, monitoring, and security.
Very close - 15
WordPress.com: Everything You Need to Build Your Website
Create your WordPress website with built-in hosting, premium themes, and powerful tools. No technical setup required. Start building today—free plan available.
Very close - 16
Carrd - Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything
A free platform for building simple, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything.
Very close - 17
Codeberg.org
Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.
Very close - 18
BanaHosting — Web Hosting, VPS & Domains from $4.95/mo
BanaHosting — Fast pure SSD hosting, free SSL, free site migration, and 24/7 ticket support. Plans from $4.95/mo with 30-day money-back.
Very close - 19
Web hosting provider
Very close - 20
Create a blog or website for free and make money online - Altervista
Do you want to create a website for free? Find out how to do it on Altervista: open a blog or a website quickly and easily and start making money online. Altervista is free of charge forever
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 · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 47 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
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://pages.github.com/js/jquery.js
- CDN
- Fastly header x-fastly-request-id: 9f422c31f8e6ea11380e9343ab3bcb2658eb3cae
- Hosting
- GitHub Pages header server: GitHub.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1339.awsdns-39.org
- NS1 NS dns3.p05.nsone.net
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on github.io 17/20
- Google Workspace · not on github.io 13/20
- Cloudflare · not on github.io 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on github.io 8/20
- Amazon SES · not on github.io 7/20
- HubSpot · not on github.io 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on github.io 5/20
- OpenAI · not on github.io 5/20
- Stripe · not on github.io 5/20
- DocuSign · not on github.io 5/20
- SendGrid · not on github.io 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on github.io 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on github.io 4/20
- Apple Business · not on github.io 4/20
- OneTrust · not on github.io 3/20
- Atlassian · not on github.io 3/20