GitHub and Bitbucket both have their strengths, and you may be at a decision already. Before you pull the trigger, though, consider that you don’t have to choose one over the other.

Bitbucket has some similar functionality, but it’s not as robust without Jira integration. Bottom line: Both GitHub and Bitbucket are fairly evenly matched on the user interface front.

Bitbucket officially supports Git and Mercurial. There’s been a rickety solution for Subversion users on Bitbucket, but it’s too flaky and will be removed on Oct. 1.

As Bitbucket is more like private code storage, many people often decide to use it over GitHub. That said, if you need a private space to save your codes, you can certainly opt for Bitbucket.

For a team of 200 developers to host repositories in the cloud for 12 months, it would cost GitHub users $21,600 and Bitbucket users $2,400. That’s a 9x difference.

Bitbucket starts at $2 per month and GitLab starts at $4 per month. But these numbers are just rough guides because there’s a good chance you’ll want to upgrade.

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