googlesource.com
Open Source
Who runs Open Source, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest source code hosting alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Part of google.com
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- GitHub
Measured from Open Source’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Open Source01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Open Source
Open Source googlesource.com
Google <3 Open Source
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Part of
- google.com Runs this domain’s DNS
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Open Source 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; 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Open Source
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Open Source, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub
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.
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
Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge
SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well as free & fast open source software downloads and development.
Very close - 04
Gitee - 基于 Git 的代码托管和研发协作平台
面向企业提供一站式研发管理解决方案，包括代码管理、项目管理、文档协作、测试管理、CICD、效能度量等多个模块，支持SaaS、私有化等多种部署方式，帮助企业有序规划和管理研发过程，提升研发效率和质量。
Very close - 05
AtomGit - Open source community and code hosting platform for global developers
AtomGit is an open source community for global developers, featuring blogs, open source code hosting, code collaboration, project management, and more. Interact with developer communities to improve your development efficiency and quality.
Very close - 06
sourcehut - the hacker's forge
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
Very close - 07
Bitbucket | Git solution for teams using Jira
Bitbucket Cloud is a Git-based code and CI/CD tool optimized for teams using Jira.
Very close - 08
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 - 09
Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.
Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.
Very close - 10
Launchpad
software forge
Very close - 11
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 - 12
Google AppSheet | Build apps with no code
Use Google AppSheet to build powerful applications that transform your business. Get started today.
Very close - 13
Aider - AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal
Very close - 14
Full featured documentation deployment platform - Read the Docs
Read the Docs is a documentation building and hosting platform aimed at helping developers creating documentation from code with versioned documentation, integrated search, pull request previews and more.
Very close - 15
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Very close - 16
Glitch Blog
The official blog for glitch.com
Very close - 17 java.net Top 10K
defunct Java technology related community website with a web-based source code repository for Java projects
Very close - 18
The infrastructure as code platform for the AI era – Pulumi
Pulumi is an open-source infrastructure as code platform that helps humans and agents build and manage cloud infrastructure with real programming languages.
Very close - 19
Open Source ERP and CRM | Odoo
From ERP to CRM, eCommerce and CMS. Download Odoo or use it in the cloud. Grow Your Business.
Close - 20
ChromeOS – das sichere Cloud-First-Betriebssystem für Ihr Unternehmen
Kennen Sie schon ChromeOS, das sichere Cloud-First-Betriebssystem, mit dem Sie Ihr Unternehmen voranbringen und die Erwartungen Ihrer Mitarbeitenden an moderne Arbeitsumgebungen erfüllen können?
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Open Source’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Open Source 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 Open Source 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 · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 27 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Open Source’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
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Hosting
- Google Cloud header server: Google Frontend
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=aKPj1-sx06iXKc9x6HT0XeWo-iYmuob1fIP4caoHCkc
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 11/20
- Google Workspace · not on googlesource.com 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on googlesource.com 5/20
- Google Fonts 5/20
- Stripe · not on googlesource.com 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on googlesource.com 4/20
- Atlassian · not on googlesource.com 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on googlesource.com 3/20
- Nuxt · not on googlesource.com 3/20
- Vue.js · not on googlesource.com 3/20
- Google Cloud DNS · not on googlesource.com 3/20
- Adobe · not on googlesource.com 2/20
- Apple Business · not on googlesource.com 2/20
- Contentful · not on googlesource.com 2/20
- DocuSign · not on googlesource.com 2/20
- GitHub Pages · not on googlesource.com 2/20