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Irrespective of git vs. hg, there is one case where BitBucket is definitely better than GitHub: when you have many repositories and a variable number of contributors.

My company is in this exact situation and we've chosen BitBucket because the pricing model per contributor is a much better fit than GitHub's model for our usage pattern.

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I haven't looked at the pricing for BitBucket but it seems (in my experience) you can have as many contributors as you want in an "organization" on GitHub and you only pay based on the number of private repos that organization has and forks of those repos don't count.

Is that not your experience?

BitBucket pricing: https://bitbucket.org/plans GitHub pricing: https://github.com/plans

We currently have 9 people accessing our 12 source repositories (9 BitBucket users or 9 GitHub collaborators). With BitBucket we pay 10USD/month, with GitHub we would have to pay either 22USD/month (the Medium plan) or 25USD/month (the Bronze plan).

In the end, BitBucket's pricing structure is much simpler for us and fits our model much better.

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