Self-Hosted GitLab Alternatives

There are many alternatives to GitLab as a self-hosted solution if you are looking for a replacement. The best Self-Hosted alternative is Forgejo, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to GitLab and loads of them are available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Self-Hosted alternatives to GitLab are Gitea, Gogs, SourceHut and GitBucket.

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

    61 Forgejo alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Cloudron
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  2. Gitea icon
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    Gitea is a fork of Gogs, lightweight code hosting solution written in Go and published under the MIT license.

    55 Gitea alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Cloudron
    • Chocolatey
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  3. Gogs icon
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    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.

    50 Gogs alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
    • Cloudron
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  4. SourceHut icon
     30 likes

    sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. GitBucket icon
     54 likes

    GitBucket is the easily installable open-source GitHub clone written with Scala.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Scala
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  6. Plane icon
     24 likes

    Open source alternative supporting project management, issue and task tracking, custom workflows, Kanban, list, calendar views, analytics, imports, secure encryption, Slack and GitHub integrations, Agile and Waterfall frameworks, and advanced customization.

    99 Plane alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  7. Jenkins icon
     138 likes

    Jenkins is a fork of Hudson and is a continuous build system for software projects.

    71 Jenkins alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. Trac icon
     147 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.

    166 Trac alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • BSD
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  9. Huly icon
     14 likes

    Open-source platform unifying project, document, issue, and task management with real-time team collaboration, instant messaging, video conferencing, and GitHub bidirectional sync, all in one customizable workspace for developers and product teams.

    108 Huly alternatives

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. Tangled icon
     5 likes

    Tangled is a new social-enabled Git collaboration platform, built on top of the AT Protocol. We envision a place where developers have complete ownership of their code, open source communities can freely self-govern and most importantly, coding can be social and fun again.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Phorge icon
     8 likes

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

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Oracle Solaris
    • FreeBSD
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  12. Tuleap icon
     48 likes

    Tuleap is the first fully libre and open source software (GPL licence) for Enterprise Application Lifecycle Management. Tuleap is provided by the Enalean company and the community members.

    80 Tuleap alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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