GitHub vs Bitbucket: which is more reliable?

GitHub had 9 h 39 min of outage and 22 incidents; Bitbucket had 2 h 24 min of outage and 2 incidents. By the vendors' own status pages, Bitbucket spent less time in an outage.

GitHub right now: Operational Bitbucket right now: Operational

Since 15 October 2026

From what GitHub and Bitbucket published on their own status pages, read every 2 minutes. A vendor that reports problems more openly can look worse here than one that stays quiet.

MeasureGitHubBitbucket
Time without reported problems92.09 %99.51 %
Time with an outage9 h 39 min2 h 24 min
Time degraded29 h 12 minnone
Days with an outage5 of 222 of 22
Incidents posted222
Of those, outages82
Typical time to resolve1 h 7 min2 h
Longest incident11 h 2 min2 h

Latest GitHub incidents

  1. , 36 min

    Incident with Actions

  2. , 56 min

    Incident with Actions and Pages

  3. , 2 h

    Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

  4. , 1 h 16 min

    Increased task-related errors for Copilot Mission Control

  5. , 1 h 43 min

    Incident with Git Operations

Is GitHub down right now?

Latest Bitbucket incidents

  1. , 40 min

    Disrupted Bitbucket availability

  2. , 2 h

    Bitbucket Cloud - Service DisruptionPostmortem

Is Bitbucket down right now?

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