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.
4 of the 60 sites closest to Open Source match.
- 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
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.
Close - 04
Push your ideas to the web | Netlify
Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 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