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GitHub vs. Perforce P4

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1,099 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    GitHub

    Score9 out of 10
    		N/AGitHub 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

    Perforce P4

    Score7.8 out of 10
    		N/APerforce P4 (formerly Helix Core) is the company's version control and peer code review solution. Perforce offers add-on products for code review for free, and Git support products.N/A
    Pricing
    GitHubPerforce P4
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $40
    per year per user
    Enterprise
    $210
    per year per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GitHubPerforce P4
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    GitHubPerforce P4
    Considered Both Products
    GitHub
    Verified User
    Chose GitHub
    The branches in Perforce and SVN are replicas instead of links/trees like in Github. Those two tools do not have rich APIs like that of GitHub. Subversion and Perforce do not support local repositories, which might hamper the development, if developer is coding and the tools …
    Incentivized
    Verified User
    Chose GitHub
    I find GitHub more user-friendly; code is much cleaner and it can be integrated with CICD and code pipeline which makes the release process much smoother and faster.
    Incentivized
    Perforce Software
    Hank Jones
    Associate Software Quality Assurance Engineer in Quality Assurance at Omnitracs (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
    Chose Perforce P4
    Perforce is internally hosted, which makes it quite a bit faster. I found it easier to use that GitHub and Bitbucket, at least in terms of checking out files and creating changelists. GitHub and Bitbucket are much better for smaller teams, as they are cloud hosted, making …
    Incentivized
    Filip Witkowski
    Web Developer in Research & Development at TMP Worldwide (Marketing and Advertising, 501-1000 employees)
    Chose Perforce P4
    Today's web based software makes them easier to integrate into a development process. JIRA with integrated Bitbucket as the versioning tool, is ahead of the competition. However for large organizations, Perforce is still a very good choice. GitHub can be used as free tool, but …
    Incentivized
    Pavel Petrov
    Infrastructure engineer in Information Technology at Amdocs (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose Perforce P4
    In my opinion, Perforce Helix Core is on a top level of irritation and anti-user experience. In my experience, I can't do simple things like 1 word file edits, while I have never been confused when using something based on Git.
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    GitHubPerforce P4
    Version Control Software Features
    Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of GitHub and Perforce P4
    Feature
    GitHub
    7.9
    2 Ratings
    Perforce P4
    7.9
    1 Ratings
    Branching and Merging9.82 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Version History8.02 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Version Control Collaboration Tools7.12 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Pull Requests9.72 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Code Review Tools7.82 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Project Access Control8.22 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Automated Testing Integration7.42 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Issue Tracking Integration4.12 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Branch Protection9.42 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    User Ratings
    GitHubPerforce P4
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (123 ratings)
    6.5
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.6
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (26 ratings)
    9.6
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)