Atlassian Bitbucket vs. GitHub

Atlassian Bitbucket

367 Reviews and Ratings

GitHub

1,099 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Bitbucket	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	Bitbucket is a Git repository and code collaboration platform, featuring automated testing and code deployment. Bitbucket Cloud Premium provides AI-powered development, more granular access controls, and enforced code quality, and Bitbucket Data Center provides a self-hosted option.	$0
GitHub	Score9 out of 10	N/A	GitHub is a platform that hosts public and private code and provides software development and collaboration tools. Features include version control, issue tracking, code review, team management, syntax highlighting, etc. Personal plans ($0-50), Organizational plans ($0-200), and Enterprise plans are available.	$4 per month per user

Pricing

Bitbucket

GitHub

Free: $0
for up to 5 users
Standard: $3.30
per month per user
Premium: $6.60
per month per user
Bitbucket Data Center: starting at $44,000
per year 1 - 500

Team: $40
per year per user
Enterprise: $210
per year per user

Pricing Offerings
Bitbucket	GitHub
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Bitbucket	GitHub
Considered Both Products	Atlassian Kaley White Data Analyst, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance at Radformation (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Bitbucket I didn't choose Bitbucket, but I hypothesize that my company chose it partly for its phenomenal integration with other Atlassian products such as Jira. Bitbucket has GitHub as a worthy competitor, but in my opinion, there are no real Jira Software competitors. Incentivized Helpful? Shivang Kar Lead Product Engineer in Information Technology at Fasal - Grow More, Grow Better™ (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Bitbucket I have used GitLab and GitHub in the past. While GitLab is good if you are finding an open source solution for your code management and GitHub is good for the open source contribution, Bitbucket is an ideal choice to build an enterprise level product. The ecosystem that Jira … Incentivized Helpful? Yash Raut Full Stack Developer in Information Technology at Koyal Technologies LLP (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Bitbucket I have used GitHub and GitLab before working on Bitbucket. There is no huge reason to choose Bitbucket over others. The only thing I like more about Bitbucket is security and user interface! Incentivized Helpful? Carlos Eduardo de Souza Co-Founder in Information Technology at Coopers Digital Production (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Bitbucket Bitbucket is perfect for our business because it allows us to work on private projects and integrate seamlessly with our existing tools. They also provide a nice app called Sourcetree to help developers work on git environments without experience with git command-line … Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Budram Project Manager in Engineering at Advanced Integrated Systems (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Bitbucket When GitHub was acquired by Microsoft my previous organization had concerns about paywalls and additional restrictions that might be placed on the projects. We had made a move to Bitbucket as a result. The acquisition didn't seem to have any implications on the overall … Incentivized Helpful? Chirag Shukla CITO (Chief Information Technology Officer) in Corporate at Risk Administration Services, Inc. (Insurance, 51-200 employees) Chose Bitbucket For the features we were looking at, Bitbucket, GitHub and GitLab were all at par and were in a similar price range. We found that GitHub was the most full featured should we need to scale very quickly. GitLab was at par with GitHub for our future needs, but GitHub was a more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bitbucket 1. GitHub is open source and also many security vulnerabilities because it is open source. That's one of the main reasons we chose BitBucket. 2. BitBucket integrates natively with other Atlassian tools without any custom configurations. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bitbucket Bitbucket integrates with Confluence and Jira more easily than GitHub, which was a plus for us, given that we already used those tools extensively. Additionally, the pricing structure for Bitbucket makes it more affordable for our organization, which is especially important, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bitbucket Gitlab provides lesser features compared to GitHub. Gitlab/GitHub are both from a different company (Atlassian), which makes it tough to interrelate projects with other task management tools offered by Atlassian. Incentivized Helpful? Mohammad Aminul Islam Postdoctoral Researcher in Engineering at Oklahoma State University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Bitbucket GitHub is a good repository to store and share code files. But GitHub is open to the community and public. But keeping the research codes private before publication is possible in Bitbucket. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bitbucket Bitbucket is good for private repositories and reliable CI/CD integration but it's getting behind GitHub which every day has more and more integrations and which in my opinion has a larger customer group. Gitlab also offers some good support for private repositories but the … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Rout Software Developer in Information Technology at Finmo (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Bitbucket We did select Bitbucket for a bit, but then we eventually moved away from using JIRA to different tools and as a result, it made more sense to move our source code to GitHub since it provides more features and is just much easier to use as everyone already knows how to use GitHu… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bitbucket At the time of making the selection, Bitbucket offered free private repositories when no one else did. This was the primary motivator. With GitHub, you can now have free private repositories on personal accounts, but organizations must still pay for private accounts. Overall Git… Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bitbucket Bitbucket was my repo host of choice when it came to private repos, but now that GitHub offers free private repos I’ll probably just use them. If you want to manage branch protection though you’ll need a Pro membership for GitHub whereas it was free with Bitbucket. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bitbucket From a cost standpoint, Bitbucket is the winner if you fall outside of the ability to use the GitHub and Gitlab free tiers. Both of those solutions have their own merits, but from a cost saving perspective Bitbucket is more than likely going to be the most effective option. Incentivized Helpful? Isidro Moran Director, Engineering in Engineering at Vistadash (Automotive, 51-200 employees) Chose Bitbucket The majority of SCM tools are Git based. What makes this solution stand out from the rest is it's web-based interface, which implements version control standards very intuitively. As a result, the learning curve shortens and productivity is highly improved. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bitbucket At the time, the licensing was cheaper than the other options, and integrating with Jira was a plus. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bitbucket The main reason why we choose Bitbucket is because they provide a secure way to save the code using private repositories. The Access control is easy to setup too Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bitbucket It doesn’t stack up against them. It is widely used because it comes in a great package with other Atlassian tools. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bitbucket All 3 software works well for development and source code control, but for sure Bitbucket is the easiest to be set up and be deployed among the team. The integration with JIRA makes this a powerful tool against coding-only applications. However, for open source, it would be … Incentivized Helpful? Joshua Cariño Software Engineer in Engineering at Novare Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Bitbucket Of the three, we mostly use Gitlab the most. I don't know why as I was not part of the selection process. But if I'm to guess, this is an organization preference. Our company uses Bitbucket the most, while our partners either use Gitlab the most and sometimes ButBucket. But if … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bitbucket I think Gitlab and Bitbucket are very similar. I am very familiar with git commands so its easy for me to use both. But I would still prefer Gitlab since it has few additional features like send merge request, approvers etc. Incentivized Helpful? Machindra Dharmadhikari Assistant Vice President in Information Technology at Deutsche Bank (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Bitbucket Bitbucket uses Git as a client which is more advanced with lots of features for source code management tool. It is very easy to scale horizontally as per our needs, and recent new features like adding multiple file systems keep Bitbucket more useful. Due to multiple file … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Bitbucket Bitbucket provides more features to version control and mange project sources. Build, test and deploy with integrated CI/CD. Benefit from configuration as code and fast feedback loops. Approve code review more efficiently with pull requests. Create a merge checklist with … Incentivized Helpful?	GitHub Verified User Chose GitHub GitHub comes handy in terms of usage and capabilities, it is easy to use and quite a user friendly tools when it comes to user experience, with limited UI/UX and it has vast exposure when it comes to third party integration and being quite mature and yet evolving and popular … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Davoli Director, Web Development at Amsive (Marketing & Advertising, 501-1000 employees) Chose GitHub Over my career I've used a variety of other platforms but always find myself coming back to GitHub which has always had the most forward thinking features, evolving faster than other platforms, staying on the cutting edge of AI and other tools as they are released. AI … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitHub Bitbucket in most cases is very similar. Though the UI and collaboration tools are much easier to use overall on GitHub. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitHub GitHub compared to GitLab and Bitbucket seems to have an easier and nice to use interface. This is mainly due to the fact that GitHub is the No1 choice for most of the Open Source projects. Developers out there are already famaliar to it's UX/UI and use it every day. Another … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitHub GitHub is primarily targeted at developers and open-source communities, while Bitbucket is geared more towards small- to medium-sized businesses. GitHub has a free plan for open-source projects, while Bitbucket charges a fee for private repositories. For organizations with … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitHub Github has much better code view/search/edit power versus Bitbucket, and is the industry standard for professional software developers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitHub GitHub is the best platform to manage your source code. You can manage your CI/CD with different cloud service provider platforms and different languages. You can also create GHE for a number of organizations and repositories. Learning GitHub is easy and simple and supports … Incentivized Helpful? Bimal Subedi Software Engineer in Information Technology at VSARV (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose GitHub GitHub stacks up against all of its competitors due to its ease of use and great UI that tops the all. I selected GitHub considering its popularity greater developer community. GitHub also provides Student Developer Pack that we can use to enhance our knowledge and get up to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitHub GitHub gives support for open-source applications. I think it has an easier and more reliable interface compared to other products on the market. You are able to expose your work via GitHub so that it can be used as a proof of your work to your current employer or future … Incentivized Helpful? Gedson Silva Senior Production Engineer in Engineering at Carrilho Engineering (Telecommunications, 51-200 employees) Chose GitHub It was the broader set of features and how easy it is to browse the history that made us change to GitHub, and time has proven us right. Incentivized Helpful? Tim Noetzel Director Of Product Design in Research & Development at GetHuman (Consumer Services, 1-10 employees) Chose GitHub GitHub is the de-facto solution for version control and code storage. Our team prefers it over other options like Bitbucket for its feature-completeness. Incentivized Helpful? Ray Flores Software Engineer in Information Technology at LendEDU (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose GitHub GitHub is less expensive with an easier learning curve. Incentivized Helpful? Tim Hardy Senior Developer in Information Technology at Ulterra Drilling Technologies L.P. (Oil & Energy, 501-1000 employees) Chose GitHub GitHub is at least as good as Bitbucket, if not a little more refined. GitHub is hands-down better than TFS. If you are using TFS, you really need to move to a modern source control system. The newer Azure DevOps Server has a decent Git offering, but the UX is incredibly … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitHub Bitbucket is a very similar tool, but you can have multiple private repositories and it's easy to integrate it with JIRA. Incentivized Helpful? Brett Knighton Development Team Lead in Engineering at Xactware (Insurance, 1001-5000 employees) Chose GitHub GitHub isn't the primary repository management tool that we use. It is a good tool and is well suited for certain types of teams. It has many great tools built-in and is easy to use. But, we primarily use Bitbucket and are moving over to Azure DevOps. So, we didn't "select" … Incentivized Helpful? David Crawford Software Developer in Information Technology at Great Lakes Health Connect (Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees) Chose GitHub They're not listed here, but we've used Deltanji as well which is more suited for Intersystems specific products. But GitHub is far more modernized and can handle anything, and code reviews are a breeze with built-in comparison tools. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitHub I use Bitbucket exclusively at work and I prefer the UI and user experience of GitHub more. Bitbucket is a bit more barebones in its features. It doesn't have the nice-to-have bells and whistles that GitHub has. But it was first to market with free private repos so many chose … Incentivized Helpful? Frank Ramirez Co-Founder, CTO and Product Lead in Engineering at SixPlus (Hospitality, 11-50 employees) Chose GitHub While I don't have very much experience with these 2 solutions, they're two of the most popular alternatives to GitHub. Bitbucket is from Atlassian, which may make sense for a team that is already using other Atlassian tools like Jira, Confluence, and Trello, as their … Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Taylor Solutions Architect in Professional Services at FFW (Internet, 11-50 employees) Chose GitHub While I think all of the main platforms provide the same core functionality (a cloud-based version control system), Github provides the most commonly used tools across different organizations. I think Bitbucket is very useful to blend with Jira, and Gitlab provides a little … Incentivized Helpful? Benjamin Plotkin Technical Project Manager in Information Technology at California State University, Northridge (Education Management, 1001-5000 employees) Chose GitHub We maintain both GitHub and Bitbucket accounts but migrated our active private repositories to GitHub when private repository quota limits were eased. Our shop is primarily focused on open-source development and as such our team members' philosophies are generally in alignment … Incentivized Helpful? Csaba Toth Director of Product Engineering in Engineering at SportsBoard Mobile Player Assessment Solutions (Sports, 11-50 employees) Chose GitHub Gitlab is the main competitor and they also have CI / CD capabilities, and also issue tracking, wiki. Gitlab supports static website hosting but does not offer dynamic Jekyll RoR server-side processing. The main advantage of Gitlab is that it offers private repositories for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose GitHub Gitlab is something that I would investigate more if I need an on-site solution. Bitbucket has a terrible UX like most Atlassian products. Incentivized Helpful? Ashish Balure Senior Consultant in Information Technology at Deloitte (Management Consulting, 10,001+ employees) Chose GitHub GitHub is like an end to end solution compared to Bitbucket from Atlassian. With regards to defect tracking in Git, professionals are comparing it with the likes of Jira. Also the newly added features of social networking make it a unique tool to connect with like minded … Incentivized Helpful? Dillon Welch Director Of Engineering in Engineering at Tempest, Inc. (Consumer Services, 11-50 employees) Chose GitHub The UI/UX on GitHub is by far the best. It's also the most commonly used, so most developers know how to use it without any onboarding or training. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Bitbucket

GitHub

Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of Atlassian Bitbucket and GitHub
Feature	Atlassian Bitbucket 8.2 3 Ratings	GitHub 7.9 2 Ratings
Branching and Merging	9.43 Ratings	9.82 Ratings
Version History	9.83 Ratings	8.02 Ratings
Version Control Collaboration Tools	9.63 Ratings	7.12 Ratings
Pull Requests	9.93 Ratings	9.72 Ratings
Code Review Tools	4.22 Ratings	7.82 Ratings
Project Access Control	9.93 Ratings	8.22 Ratings
Automated Testing Integration	4.02 Ratings	7.42 Ratings
Issue Tracking Integration	8.83 Ratings	4.12 Ratings
Branch Protection	8.72 Ratings	9.42 Ratings

User Ratings
	Bitbucket	GitHub
Likelihood to Recommend	9.1 (66 ratings)	9.0 (123 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (4 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (4 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	8.3 (14 ratings)	8.8 (26 ratings)