Self-Hosted Gitea Alternatives

There are many alternatives to Gitea as a self-hosted solution if you are looking for a replacement. The best Self-Hosted alternative is GitLab, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Gitea and many of them are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to Gitea are Forgejo, Gogs, GitBucket and Trac.

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  1. GitLab icon
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    Provides a robust platform for on-premise or hosted Git repository management, integrating seamlessly with various dev tools, facilitating efficient workflow through offerings like issue tracking, code reviews, continuous integration, CI/CD pipelines, and option for unlimited private repositories.

    111 GitLab alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    • Cloudron
     
  2. Forgejo icon
     53 likes

    Beyond coding. We forge. Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

    54 Forgejo alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
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    Comments about Forgejo as an Alternative to Gitea
    dirtydraft
    Positive
    4

    Community led and not controlled by a for-profit. Forgejo is the successor to Gitea.

    Douze
    Positive
    1

    Forked from Gitea in late 2022 (when Gitea was acquired by a private company). It aims to maintain and improve the already fantastic solution that was Gitea, protected and driven by a non-profit. Best used with Codeberg.

    Tetrapod
    Negative
    0

    Forgejo is NOT independently developed, but takes (FOSS) work from the Gitea developers and removes any credit to the original authors. The forgejo 'team' is essentially white-labeling the honest open-source efforts of the Gitea developers. This might be legally allowed for open-source code, but it's morally despicable. [https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/251](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/251)

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    • Forgejo is Free and Open SourceGitea is Freemium and Open Source
    • Forgejo is CustomizableGitea is not according to our users
  3. Gogs icon
     135 likes

    The easiest, fastest, and most painless way of setting up a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this can be done with an independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and ARM.

    42 Gogs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Cloudron
     
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    Comments about Gogs as an Alternative to Gitea
    6543
    Negative
    2

    gogs has less features than gitea -> https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/comparison/

    jsadoski
    Positive
    1

    Gitea is forked from Gogs. Gogs is the upstream project. While Gitea is more featured, Gogs is lightweight and can cover basic needs. Both are equally easy to set up and run (same steps).

    valerie
    Positive
    0

    the feature set of gogs is limited compared to gitea's

    [https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/comparison]

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    • Gogs is Free and Open SourceGitea is Freemium and Open Source
  4. Trac icon
     146 likes

    Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way.

    154 Trac alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. RhodeCode icon
     25 likes

    Fast and powerful management tool for SVN, Mercurial, and GIT with a built in push/pull server and full text search and code-review. It works on http/https and has a built in permission/authentication system with the ability to authenticate via LDAP or ActiveDirectory.

    38 RhodeCode alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. Phorge icon
     7 likes

    Phorge is an open source, community driven platform for collaborating, managing, organizing and reviewing software development projects.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • Solaris
     
  7. Kallithea icon
     34 likes

    Kallithea, a free software source code management system supporting two leading version control systems, Mercurial and Git.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  8. GitPrep icon
     22 likes

    GitPrep is a GitHub clone. You can install portable Github system into Unix/Linux. You can create users and repositories without limitation. This is free software.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Perl
     
  9. Gitblit icon
     20 likes

    Gitblit is an open-source, pure Java stack for managing, viewing, and serving Git repositories.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. Pagure icon
     3 likes

    A Git center project hosting with bug reporting tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. OneDev icon
     1 like

    Super Easy All-In-One DevOps Platform. Contribute to theonedev/onedev development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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