Self-Hosted GitHub Alternatives

GitHub is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are plenty of alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. 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 100 alternatives to GitHub 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 GitHub are Gitea, Gogs, Forgejo and GitBucket.

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GitHub alternatives are mainly Source Code Hosting Services, but if you're looking for Version Control Systems or Issue Tracking Systems you can filter on that. Other popular filters include EU, Self-Hosted, Open Source, Free + Source Code Hosting and Android. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to GitHub.
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  1. 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
     
  2. GForge icon
     4 likes

    An all-in-one DevOps platform combining issue tracking, Git/SVN repositories, wikis, CI/CD, and release management—available as SaaS or on-premise for teams that want one integrated solution.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
     
  3. cgit icon
     16 likes

    A hyperfast web frontend for git repositories written in C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. 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.

    41 GitPrep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Perl
     
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    Comments about GitPrep as an Alternative to GitHub
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    For the self-hosting category, it has literally zero dependencies. Every repository is plain as-is-on-the-harddrive, so you have no troubles like in other alternatives with bare repos vs. real repos. Simple install, zero dependencies, works on every VPS.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    GitPrep icon
    GitPrep icon
    • GitPrep is Free and Open SourceGitHub is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. Heptapod icon
     1 like

    Heptapod brings Mercurial support to GitLab Community Edition, an open source software to collaborate on code.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. GNU Savannah icon
     4 likes

    GNU Savannah is a project of the Free Software Foundation, which serves as a collaborative software development management system for free Software projects.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. 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
     
  8. Gitness icon
     Like

    Gitness is an Open Source developer platform with Source Control management, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. 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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    Comments about OneDev as an Alternative to GitHub
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    Negative
    1

    A devops platform rather than a git server

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    OneDev icon
    OneDev icon
    • OneDev is Free and Open SourceGitHub is Freemium and Proprietary
  10. Deveo icon
     4 likes

    Deveo is a code hosting and collaboration platform that supports Git, Subversion and Mercurial. You can use it self-hosted on your own-premises, or from multi-tenant cloud as SaaS.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Gerrit simplifies Git based project maintainership by permitting any authorized user to submit changes to the master Git repository, rather than requiring all approved changes to be merged in by hand by the project maintainer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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