Forgejo vs Gitea

Comparing two open source alternatives to GitHub and GitLab and Bitbucket . Use the comparison below to decide which one fits your needs.

Forgejo

GPL-3.0

A community-driven self-hosted Git forge, forked from Gitea, focused on software freedom and federation.

MIT

Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service with Git hosting, code review, CI/CD, and package registry.

	Forgejo	Gitea
License	GPL-3.0	MIT
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	5,326	57,477
Forks	912	7,012
Open Issues	1,448	2,534
Last Commit	Aug 18, 2026	Aug 18, 2026
First Released	Nov 6, 2022	Nov 1, 2016
Categories	Source Code Management	Source Code Management
Tags	#git #self hosted #forge #collaboration #CI/CD	#git #self hosted #forge #collaboration #CI/CD

Forgejo

Gitea57,477