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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
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Closest alternative
GitHub

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs SourceForge

SourceForge sourceforge.net

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

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to SourceForge, thumbs down if it isn’t.

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.

3 of the 60 sites closest to SourceForge match.

  1. 01
    GitHub github.com Top 100 English Free plan 2 trackers

    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.

    Compare GitHub with SourceForge →
  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 SourceForge →
  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 SourceForge →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles SourceForge’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones SourceForge 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 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, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
33 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to SourceForge’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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