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    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

    SourceForge

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ASourceForge is a B2B software discovery platform, featuring 4000+ categories in its comparison engine that potential buyers can use to compare software by user reviews, features, pricing, integrations, operating system, and deployment.N/A
    Pricing
    GitHubSourceForge
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $40
    per year per user
    Enterprise
    $210
    per year per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GitHubSourceForge
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    GitHubSourceForge
    Considered Both Products
    GitHub
    Chose GitHub
    SourceForge has been adulterating binaries and installers, bundling crapware/adware. These practices are incredibly questionable at best, and in my mind, nothing from the site is to be trusted anymore.
    Incentivized
    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
    Chose GitHub
    Others not listed above, CVS, Microsoft SourceSafe. GitHub offers the most comprehensive offering, including Code Review, Open API, Wiki (just to mention a few) in a single package. GitHub is likely the most used repository in the world. It's fast, even with high user volume. …
    Incentivized
    Chose GitHub
    In my opinion, GitHub beats all of the competition.

    The other services offer some things that could be considered benefits in some scenarios: Bitbucket has good integration with other Atlassian products, Gitlab is self-hosted and completely free, Beanstalk integrates with some …
    Incentivized
    SourceForge
    Chose SourceForge
    Once again I must circle back to the incident(s) in the past where SourceForge adulterated abandoned projects... I dislike that practice immensely.

    I have selected against SourceForge in my usage for the stated reasons, and have moved on to GitHub, especially as private …
    Incentivized
    Chose SourceForge
    G2 lacks the open-source community like SourceForge and does not allow interaction between developers and customers, although both do a commendable job of listing useful business and open-source software along with their price comparisons and reviews.
    Incentivized
    Chose SourceForge
    I use SourceForge because here you can easily filter out and find the right software, and it has a huge collection of open-source software with trustworthy reviews.
    Incentivized
    Chose SourceForge
    I just think SourceForge is the best for a person who's not really interested in the code but only wants a trustworthy way to read about and decide which software to use.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    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
    GitHubSourceForge
    Version Control Software Features
    Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of GitHub and SourceForge
    Feature
    GitHub
    7.9
    2 Ratings
    SourceForge
    -
    Ratings
    Branching and Merging9.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Version History8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Version Control Collaboration Tools7.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pull Requests9.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code Review Tools7.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Access Control8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Testing Integration7.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue Tracking Integration4.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Branch Protection9.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    GitHubSourceForge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (123 ratings)
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.3
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (26 ratings)
    6.4
    (10 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)