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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.

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01 · 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.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

3 of the 60 sites closest to GitHub match.

  1. 01
    Netlify netlify.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

    Push your ideas to the web | Netlify

    Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.

    Compare Netlify with GitHub →
  2. 02
    GitLab gitlab.com Top 1K English Free plan 2 trackers

    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.

    Compare GitLab with GitHub →
  3. 03
    Mintlify mintlify.com English Free plan 1 tracker

    Mintlify - The documentation platform for agents

    Self-updating documentation for startups, enterprises, and agents.

    Compare Mintlify with GitHub →

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 = 60
Sites searched
9,208
Vector
384-d
Query
35 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.

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