sourceforge.net

SourceForge

Who runs SourceForge, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest software directory and code hosting alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
GitHub

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs SourceForge

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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.

Wikidata: web-based source code repository

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What SourceForge 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

More than all 15 alternatives below.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
3 tools
  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Marketing and email tracking

    Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.

  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to SourceForge

Fewer trackers than SourceForgeNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

People compare SourceForge with

From Google searches like “github vs sourceforge”, with searches a month.

None of the 60 sites closest to SourceForge match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what SourceForge 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 and search numbers · 9 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
34 ms

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CDN
Video
Email delivery
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SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

Sitemaps

, 99 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.