GitHub alternatives
GitHub is already the cheapest code hosting & CI tool we track at a 10-developer team ($40/mo). Here's how the other 2 compare. The closest match, GitLab, covers 81% of what GitHub does. Each one shows how much of it it covers, capability by capability, next to the price.
What GitHub does
Core: Team admin and analytics, Private Git repositories, Pull request code review, Hosted CI pipelines, Runs GitHub Actions, Merge queue & PR workflow, Open-source community.
Important: Background cloud agents, Web and mobile access, Slack and issue triggers, AI pull request review, Privacy and compliance, Open source or self-hosted, Self-hosted runners, Package & container registry, Deployment management (partly), Issues & planning, Code security scanning, Integrations marketplace, SSO, audit & compliance (partly), Static code analysis (partly), Dependency vulnerability scanning (partly), Secret detection, Automated fixes.
Also has: Agentic coding tool, Codebase indexing, AI-native code editor (partly), Terminal agent (CLI) (partly), Multi-lab model choice, MCP tool connections (partly), Rules, commands and subagents, Plan and spec mode (partly), Built-in browser testing, Design to code, Hosted macOS builds, Mobile beta distribution (partly), Remote build caching (partly), Test run analytics (partly), Self-managed edition (partly), Mobile app, Malicious package detection (partly), License compliance & SBOM, Engineering metrics & DORA (partly), AI test generation, IDE & pre-commit checks (partly), Multi-platform Git support (partly), Self-hosting & open source (partly), Compliance & audit reporting (partly).
Alternatives to GitHub at a 10-developer team, best match first
- GitLab: $290/mo Premium billed annually only (Premium). It covers 81% of GitHub; missing or partial: Runs GitHub Actions, Open-source community (partly), Web and mobile access (partly), Slack and issue triggers (partly), Integrations marketplace (partly). Free plan: Free: up to 5 users per private top-level group, 400 compute minutes/mo, 10 GiB storage.. Last price hike: Apr 2023.
- Bitbucket: $80/mo Page's tier data shows lower rates beyond 5 users (Premium). It covers 53% of GitHub; missing or partial: Pull request code review (partly), Runs GitHub Actions, Merge queue & PR workflow, Open-source community (partly), AI pull request review (partly). Free plan: Free for up to 5 users: unlimited private repos, 50 build minutes/mo, 1 GB LFS.. Last price hike: Jan 2026.
Prices at every size
- GitHub: a 10-developer team $40/mo, 10,000 Linux CI minutes a month $48/mo, 1,000 macOS build minutes a month $49.60/mo
- GitLab: a 10-developer team $290/mo, 10,000 Linux CI minutes a month $290/mo, 1,000 macOS build minutes a month $87/mo (Premium billed annually only)
- Bitbucket: a 10-developer team $80/mo, 10,000 Linux CI minutes a month $116.50/mo, 1,000 macOS build minutes a month no public price (Page's tier data shows lower rates beyond 5 users)
Every price is for a 10-developer team on the cheapest monthly plan that covers the job (for Git hosts, private repos where a merge needs an approving review), with CI usage priced separately at 10,000 Linux minutes and 1,000 macOS minutes a month, seats and overage included. Free plans count when they cover the whole scenario and allow private, commercial use.
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