Private repositories are cheap until you add people, and then every seat is a line item. Gitea gives you repositories, pull requests, issues, actions, and a registry, on hardware you rent by the month regardless of how many developers you hire.
List prices as published by each vendor. Yours is flat.
| GitHub Team | $4/user/mo | per developer |
| GitLab Premium | $29/user/mo | per developer |
| Bitbucket Standard | $3/user/mo | per developer |
| Gitea here | Free | unlimited users |
Gitea is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service. Host repositories, review pull requests, track issues, and keep your team's code private, in a fast package that sips resources.
Who this is for: Small teams and solo developers who want private repos they control.
Yes. Gitea can pull-mirror a GitHub repository on a schedule, which makes it a good backup even if you stay on GitHub.
Gitea Actions runs GitHub-Actions-compatible workflows. You will need a runner, which can live on the same instance.
Gitea is written in Go and starts in under a second. It is dramatically lighter than GitLab.
Free plan. No card needed. Deployed in about a minute.
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