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Gogs

gogs/gogs

An open-source alternative to BitBucket, GitHub and Upsource.

The painless way to host your own Git service (from the repository)

Stars
47,886
Licence
MIT
Last push
2026-09-12
Written in
Go

Is it alive?

Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.
Activity
Active
Last push 45 days ago
Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.
Releases
Recent
v0.14.3, 5 months ago
Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.
Issues
82% closed
943 open · 4,272 closed
Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.
Momentum
+20 in 9 days
47,886 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

Gogs’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.

Gogs against the other open-source options

Every project offered against BitBucket, GitHub and 1 more, most-starred first.
Gogs compared with other open-source alternatives
ProjectStarsActivityLicenceSelf-hostLanguage
Gitea58,564ActivePermissive○Go
Gogs (this page)47,886ActivePermissive○Go
GitLab24,552ActiveNot identified○Ruby
OneDev15,317ActivePermissive○Java
Sturdy549QuietNot identifiedDockerGo
Pagure228ActiveCopyleft○Python
Cloudogu EcoSystem53ActiveNetwork copyleft○Shell
Codeberg20QuietPermissive○Go
All open-source alternatives to BitBucket →All open-source alternatives to GitHub →All open-source alternatives to Upsource →

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