Compare the Top Free Source Code Management Software as of April 2025

What is Free Source Code Management Software?

Source code management (SCM) software is a type of software to help developers track, manage, and version control their source code throughout the software development lifecycle. These tools allow multiple developers to collaborate on the same project by maintaining a centralized repository where code changes are stored and tracked. SCM software typically includes features like version control, branching, merging, and conflict resolution to ensure that code changes are properly managed and integrated. It also provides tools for tracking issues, auditing changes, and ensuring that all team members are working with the latest codebase. SCM software is essential for maintaining code integrity, improving collaboration, and enhancing productivity in development teams. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Source Code Management software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    GitHub

    GitHub

    GitHub

    GitHub is the world’s most secure, most scalable, and most loved developer platform. Join millions of developers and businesses building the software that powers the world. Build with the world’s most innovative communities, backed by our best tools, support, and services. If you manage multiple contributors , there’s a free option: GitHub Team for Open Source. We also run GitHub Sponsors, where we help fund your work. The Pack is back. We’ve partnered up to give students and teachers free access to the best developer tools—for the school year and beyond. Work for a government-recognized nonprofit, association, or 501(c)(3)? Get a discounted Organization account on us.
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    Starting Price: $7 per month
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    GitLab

    GitLab

    GitLab

    GitLab is a complete DevOps platform. With GitLab, you get a complete CI/CD toolchain out-of-the-box. One interface. One conversation. One permission model. GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. GitLab helps teams accelerate software delivery from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs, and reduce the risk of application vulnerabilities while increasing developer productivity. Source code management enables coordination, sharing and collaboration across the entire software development team. Track and merge branches, audit changes and enable concurrent work, to accelerate software delivery. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects in code among distributed teams via asynchronous review and commenting. Automate, track and report code reviews.
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    Starting Price: $29 per user per month
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    Git

    Git

    Git

    Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is easy to learn and has a tiny footprint with lightning fast performance. It outclasses SCM tools like Subversion, CVS, Perforce, and ClearCase with features like cheap local branching, convenient staging areas, and multiple workflows. You can query/set/replace/unset options with this command. The name is actually the section and the key separated by a dot, and the value will be escaped.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    Bitbucket

    Bitbucket

    Atlassian

    Bitbucket is more than just Git code management. Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test, and deploy. Free for small teams under 5 and priced to scale with Standard ($3/user/mo) or Premium ($6/user/mo) plans. Keep your projects organized by creating Bitbucket branches right from Jira issues or Trello cards. 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 designated approvers and hold discussions right in the source code with inline comments. Bitbucket Pipelines with Deployments lets you build, test and deploy with integrated CI/CD. Benefit from configuration as code and fast feedback loops. Know your code is secure in the Cloud with IP whitelisting and required 2-step verification. Restrict access to certain users, and control their actions with branch permissions and merge checks for quality code.
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    Starting Price: $15 per month
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    Review Board
    Code review doesn't have to be so hard. Review Board takes the pain out of code review, saving you time, money, and sanity so you can focus on making great software. You can review just about anything. Code, documents, artwork, you name it! There's more to your project than just code. Documentation, artwork, website designs, interface mockups, release announcements, feature specifications, and the list goes on. A picture paints a thousand words, and can be key in a review. Drag-and-drop one or more images onto your review request to make them instantly reviewable. Your team will be able to click-and-drag anywhere on the image and leave a comment. When they do, you'll see their comment right along with that portion of the image. Made a tweak to the image? Just upload a new revision and view a visual diff of the changes through one of our many image diff modes. Sometimes you'll have other text content that's not part of your source tree.
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    Azure DevOps Server
    Share code, track work, and ship software using integrated software delivery tools, hosted on premisis. Use all the Azure DevOps services or just the ones you need to complement your existing workflows. Previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS), Azure DevOps Server is a set of collaborative software development tools, hosted on-premises. Azure DevOps Server integrates with your existing IDE or editor, enabling your cross-functional team to work effectively on projects of all sizes. Azure DevOps Server is source code management software, and includes features such as access Controls/Permissions, bug tracking, build automation, change management, code review, collaboration, continuous integration, and version control.
    Starting Price: $6 per user per month
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    Review Assistant
    Review Assistant is a code review plug-in for Visual Studio. Our code review tool allows you to create review requests and respond to them without leaving Visual Studio. Devart’s Review Assistant supports TFS, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, and Perforce. Setup includes unlimited 30-day trial and a free plan. Get up and running in 5 minutes. Our product can be a great review assistant on the way to code flawlessness! Most developers do not like to switch between their IDEs and other tools while working on a code. Knowing this, we have integrated the code review process into the development environment as far as possible. You can now create review comments directly from the code editor. The Code Review Board window displays created reviews and allows you to manage them. What is more, Code Review Board contains all code-related discussions.
    Starting Price: $349.95
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    Gitea

    Gitea

    CommitGo, Inc.

    Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD. Its backend is written in the Go language. It is published under the MIT license. Gitea runs anywhere Go can compile for Windows, macOS, Linux, ARM, etc. Choose the one you love! Simply run the binary for your platform, ship it with Docker, or get it packaged. Gitea has low minimal requirements and can run on an inexpensive Raspberry Pi. Save your machine energy! Join us by contributing to make this project even better. Don’t be shy to be a contributor!
    Starting Price: $19/month/user
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    SCM-Manager

    SCM-Manager

    Cloudogu GmbH

    The SCM-Manager offers full control over your source code and repository management for Git, Subversion and Mercurial. The SCM-Manager is a lightweight and flexible solution with a lot of benefits. The most important benefits are listed down below: - 100% open source under MIT license: SCM-Manager is free for commercial and personal use – regardless of the size of your team. - No unnecessary weight: The lean core of the SCM-Manager is fully focused on its core task: repository management. - Quickly extendable: Over 50 plugins add target-oriented new functions, e.g. for workflow-controlled code reviews. - Simple integration: Easily connect the SCM-Manager to existing systems (e.g. project management software or CI/CD pipelines). - Free platform choice: No matter if Linux, Windows, macOS or container - a convenient installer prepares your instance in no time. - Community Support: In the SCM-Manager Community forum at myCloudogu users can discuss problems or share their interests.
    Starting Price: 0€ and remains free afterwards
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    Plastic SCM

    Plastic SCM

    Codice Software

    Unity Plastic SCM is a version control and source code management tool built to improve team collaboration and scalability with any engine. It offers optimized workflows for artists and programmers, as well as superior speed in working with large files and binaries. Plastic SCM offers tons and tons of features that make a developer's life much easier. Good branching and merging is key for "task-driven development" , feature branches, and good release management. Using Plastic, you'll branch fast even with huge code bases. You'll be able to diff refactored code with the new built-in semantic diff plus the "analyze refactors" feature. It can find refactored code across files for C#/Vb.net, Java, and C. The built-in 3-way merge tool Xdiff/Xmerge lets you resolve even the most complex merge conflicts since it features language-agnostic refactoring support. Plastic includes our SemanticMerge product.
    Starting Price: $6.95 per month
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    FOSSA

    FOSSA

    FOSSA

    Scalable, end-to-end management for third-party code, license compliance, and Open Source has become the critical supplier for modern software companies, changing everything about how people think about their code. FOSSA builds the infrastructure for modern teams to be successful with open source. FOSSA's flagship product helps teams track the open source used in their code and automate license scanning and compliance. Since then, over 7,000 open source projects (Kubernetes, Webpack, Terraform, ESLint) and companies ( Uber, Ford, Zendesk, Motorola) rely on FOSSA's tools to ship software. If you are in the software industry today, you're now using code that runs FOSSA. FOSSA is a venture-funded company backed by Cosanoa Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, etc. with affiliate angels including Marc Benioff (Salesforce), Steve Chen (YouTube), Amr Awadallah (Cloudera), Jaan Tallin (Skype), and Justin Mateen (Tinder).
    Starting Price: $230 per month
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    Tower

    Tower

    SaaS.group GmbH

    Over 100,000 developers and designers are more productive with Tower - the most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows. Stunning new features like Pull Requests and Interactive Rebase as well as countless improvements make the new Tower the best Tower ever.Create, merge, close, comment and inspect Pull Requests right from within Tower! Integrated into our clear, responsive, and powerful desktop interface, Pull Requests become so much more useful. The brand new Quick Actions dialog gives you superpowers: Give it a branch name and it will offer a checkout. Give it a file name and it will present the file's history. Give it a commit hash and it will show it in the commit history. Fast as lightning, easy as pie. Interactive Rebase is an incredibly powerful tool - but also quite awkward to use. But now, in Tower, it has become as easy as drag and drop! We've added so many new levels of detail in the new Tower. And at the same time, navigating Tower is now as simple as browsing the web.
    Starting Price: $69 per user, per year
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    Gerrit Code Review
    Read old and new versions of files with syntax highlighting and colored differences. Discuss specific sections with others to make the right changes. Gerrit includes Git-enabled SSH and HTTPS servers compatible with all Git clients. Simplify management by hosting many Git repositories together. Schedule git gc over all managed repositories and replicate to geographical mirrors for latency reduction and backup servers for hot spare redundancy. Gerrit Code Review can be extended and further customized by installing server-side plugins. Source code for additional plugins can be found through the project listing.
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