--- title: Subversion Reviews meta\_title: 'Subversion Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 64 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Subversion works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.9 review\_count: 64 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Source Code Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/source-code-management --- # Subversion Reviews & Product Details Subversion is an open source version control system. Founded in 2000 by CollabNet, Inc., the Subversion project and software have seen incredible success over the past decade. Subversion has enjoyed and continues to enjoy widespread adoption in both the open source arena and the corporate world. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Subversion Community](https://www.g2.com/products/subversion/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/subversion/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Git](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Git") Git 4.7/5(538) ](https://www.g2.com/products/git/reviews) [ ![Azure DevOps Server](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure DevOps Server") Azure DevOps Server 4.2/5(200) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-devops-server/reviews) [ ![P4](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "P4") P4 4.2/5(95) ](https://www.g2.com/products/p4/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/subversion/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 64 real user reviews. Implementation Time 1 month Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/16/2021 "Brilliant but outdated product from Apache" 4/5 What do you like best about Subversion? One of few tools used to save codebase or data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Subversion? Lower community support for any common issues to resolve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you? Saving our codebase Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite AA Abinash A. General Manager Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/24/2019 "A good experience but could be improved!" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Subversion? It's easy to use. Check in and check out of code is really very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Subversion? Nothing as such, everything worked fine when i used it with IntelliJ. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Subversion: You should try it. It's integration with Intellij makes it easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you? Collaborating on various projects repositories in my company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/20/2019 "Subversion helped me a lot in collaborative development in my projects." 4/5 What do you like best about Subversion? Subversion is very easy and even beginners can easily learn things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Subversion? Till now I never had an issue with subversion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you? During the development version control and collaborative development is an headache. In my experience subversion always had a solution for my issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Pharmaceuticals](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Pharmaceuticals") UP Verified User in Pharmaceuticals Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/29/2019 "SVN review" 4/5 What do you like best about Subversion? I like the checkin and checkout that is specifically color coded. The color coding on your local machine itself is sufficient to tell that there are pending changes yet to be checked in or the version is in sync with the server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Subversion? Sometimes, the version does not get updated with the latest one. It will make you delete the entire folder and get the latest version from sever again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Subversion: It is very easy to use. I like the color coding that it gives when the version is checked out or is sync with the server. It is easy to manage the version control using SVN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you? Version control management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/2/2018 "Simple and great for team collaboration" 4/5 What do you like best about Subversion? It is much simpler than Git. It offers you greater freedom to use its tool. There are many plugins to perform synchronization. If there is a conflict with other users, they are easily resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Subversion? High disk space consumption. Sometimes, when you make a commit, it tells you that you are not up to date even though you are working alone on that project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Subversion: Much better than Git. If you are going to work with other users, this is the best tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you? Versioning of projects to not lose anything. If you need to roll back a change, this process is instantaneous. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller inviteAI Translated ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/31/2018 "One of the Best Version Control Choices" 4/5 What do you like best about Subversion? It was launched so many years ago. What does that mean? Usually old projects use this version control and if they are still using it it is because it is so usefull. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Subversion? Sometimes it is difficult to do some easy actions. It think some competitors are easier to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Subversion: If you want something stable just take it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you? Version control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Defense & Space](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Defense & Space") UD Verified User in Defense & Space Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/26/2018 "subversion helps teams work together on projects" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Subversion? I like the incorporation into visual studio. That makes code generation seamless Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Subversion? We work with very large projects, with very large repositories of code, and it sometimes runs slowly, but that can be our own implementation issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you? Version control of code generation projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Jordan M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jordan M.") JM Jordan M. Software Engineer Chemicals Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/27/2017 "Simple and powerful Version Control with vast third party support" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Subversion? Easy to use and learn with support for tags/branches, reverting, history, merging and more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Subversion? It can be easy to mess up a commit or accidentally delete a versioned file/folder, especially when creating a tag/branch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using SVN for version control of all our software code bases. It has vastly improved our productivity and allowed us to compare versions of code to find bugs or perform code reviews Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Tim G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tim G.") TG Tim G. Senior Developer Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/29/2017 "Old but serviceable technology" 4/5 What do you like best about Subversion? Subversion has been around for 17 years. It remains very popular despite social code being all the rage with the kids today. SVN and GIT are nearly on par with GIT slightly edging SVN out. I use hosted svn as a service. I've had zero down time, zero server problems and only good experiences with SVN. SVN also, to my brain, is a more obvious, pragmatic technology. Simple terminology, simple tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Subversion? I do like the idea of giving people access to a codebase they can change without overwriting my code (like GIT). SVN does not allow for "pull requests" like GIT. I also dislike the stigma that surrounds using SVN instead of GIT. It's like I'm a leper. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Subversion: Don't let the stigma of using SVN over GIT sway you - choose the best tool for the job based on your own requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you? We have a large codebase for a fintech business located in a SVN repository with \> 10000 commits. Source control is the only way to organize a project like this. The benefits are obvious vs running without. We have custom built tools for releasing code to production that integrates automatically with SVN and an internal ticketing tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/26/2017 "Simplicity " 3.5/5 What do you like best about Subversion? Simple as that. One of the best features around the market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Subversion? Lack of compatibility it had some issues with it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Subversion solving and how is that benefiting you? Eligibility and management issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Subversion? 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