Comparison
Forgejo vs Gitea
Overview
Forgejo is a lightweight, self-hosted Git forge and a community-governed fork of Gitea, stewarded by Codeberg e.V. It provides repositories, pull requests, issues, CI (Forgejo Actions) and a small footprint, focused on independence and open governance.
Gitea is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service written in Go that runs from a single binary. It offers repositories, pull requests, issues, packages and Actions CI with minimal resource usage, plus a managed Gitea Cloud option.
Which should you choose?
Both are free, lightweight, self-hosted Git forges with a low resource footprint. Forgejo is fully community-governed with an ActivityPub federation roadmap; Gitea offers an optional managed Gitea Cloud alongside self-hosting. Choose Forgejo if fully open, community-driven governance matters to you; choose Gitea if you want the option of a managed cloud alongside self-hosting.
TLDR
- —If fully open, community-driven governance matters to you, choose Forgejo.
- —If you want the option of a managed cloud alongside self-hosting, choose Gitea.
Features
- —Lightweight self-hosted Git forge
- —Pull requests and code review
- —Issues and project tracking
- —Forgejo Actions CI
- —Federation (ActivityPub) roadmap
- —Fully open source and community-governed
- —Single-binary self-hosted forge
- —Pull requests and code review
- —Issues and wikis
- —Gitea Actions CI
- —Package registry
- —Low resource footprint
Pricing
Forgejo
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | Self-hosted. |
Gitea
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | Self-hosted MIT. |
| Gitea Cloud | Contact sales | Managed hosting. |
Company Fit
Forgejo
Gitea