Gitea
go-gitea/gitea
An open-source alternative to BitBucket, GitHub and Upsource.
Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD (from the repository)
- Stars
- 58,564
- Licence
- MIT
- Last push
- 2026-10-19
- Written in
- Go
Is it alive?
Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.
Activity
Active
Last push 8 days ago
Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.
Releases
Recent
v28.2.0, 9 days ago
Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.
Issues
88% closed
1,974 open · 14,190 closed
Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.
Momentum
+171 in 9 days
58,564 stars
Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.
What a business may do with it
PermissiveMIT
Use, change and sell it, including inside a closed product. Keep the copyright notice.
This describes the licence family GitHub identified, not legal advice about this project. The repository’s own LICENSE file is what binds you.
Run it yourself
Gitea’s README does not show a docker run, docker compose up or helm install in a code block, so this page will not guess one. It may be a desktop app, a library, or documented on its website.
Gitea against the other open-source options
Every project offered against BitBucket, GitHub and 1 more, most-starred first.
| Project | Stars | Activity | Licence | Self-host | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Gitea (this page) | 58,564 | Active | Permissive | ○ | Go |
 Gogs | 47,886 | Active | Permissive | ○ | Go |
 GitLab | 24,552 | Active | Not identified | ○ | Ruby |
 OneDev | 15,317 | Active | Permissive | ○ | Java |
 Sturdy | 549 | Quiet | Not identified | Docker | Go |
 Pagure | 228 | Active | Copyleft | ○ | Python |
 Cloudogu EcoSystem | 53 | Active | Network copyleft | ○ | Shell |
 Codeberg | 20 | Quiet | Permissive | ○ | Go |
Where this page comes from
- Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-19
- The pairing with BitBucket, GitHub and 1 more and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
- Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data