Your source code is one of your company's most valuable assets. For organizations with strict security, compliance, or data sovereignty requirements, keeping it entirely on third-party infrastructure is not always an option.
That is why self-hosted source code management still matters in 2026.
But choosing a platform is no longer just about finding a place to host Git. Engineering teams need access control, code review, auditing, integrations, scalability, and in many enterprise environments support for repositories beyond Git.