GitHub vs Bitbucket: reliability compared

Based purely on the incidents the providers themselves published on their official status pages over the last 90 days. Over that period, Bitbucket shows the better uptime.

GitHub

Operational
90d uptime
99.94 %
Incidents (90d)
4
Last
18 h ago
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90 days agotoday
no downtimeunder an houran hour or moreno data

Bitbucket

Operational
90d uptime
100.00 %
Incidents (90d)
1
Last
just now
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90 days agotoday
no downtimeunder an houran hour or moreno data

How to read this

GitHub reports “Operational”, Bitbucket reports “Operational”. Publishing more incidents does not mean being less reliable: it often means a more detailed status page. Compare total downtime instead.

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