Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Gitea

The 20 closest Git repository hosting alternatives to Gitea, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Gitea? The closest matches are Gitee, Codeberg e.V. and GitHub. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Gitea

Gitea gitea.com

Gitea Official Website

Gitea - 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

Wikidata: free forge based on git written in Go

Top 10K · #3,957 11 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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Summary by Claude

Gitea is open-source, self-hostable Git hosting software with code review, issue tracking, kanban boards, package registry and a GitHub Actions-compatible CI/CD system, offered free and as paid managed cloud and enterprise editions.

Who it’s for
Software developers and engineering teams
Business model
Managed cloud subscriptions and enterprise licenses/support

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Gitea’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

Read the DocsOpen SourceLaunchpadBitbucketGitBookgit-scm.comGitLabGitHubCodeberg e.V.Gitee

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Gitea

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Gitea, thumbs down if it isn’t.

  1. 01
    Gitee gitee.com Top 10K Chinese

    Gitee - 基于 Git 的代码托管和研发协作平台

    面向企业提供一站式研发管理解决方案,包括代码管理、项目管理、文档协作、测试管理、CICD、效能度量等多个模块,支持SaaS、私有化等多种部署方式,帮助企业有序规划和管理研发过程,提升研发效率和质量。

  2. 02
    Codeberg e.V. codeberg.org Top 10K English

    Codeberg.org

    Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

  3. 03
    GitHub github.com Top 100 English

    GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub

    Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.

  4. 04
    GitLab gitlab.com Top 1K English

    GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering

    Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.

  5. 05
    git-scm.com Top 10K English

    Git

    distributed version control system

  6. 06
    GitBook gitbook.io Top 10K English

    The knowledge layer for AI | GitBook

    GitBook is a knowledge platform that connects your docs, product and users, answers user questions, and identifies knowledge gaps. Docs-as-code support & AI insights included.

  7. 07
    Bitbucket bitbucket.org Top 10K English

    Bitbucket | Git solution for teams using Jira

    Bitbucket Cloud is a Git-based code and CI/CD tool optimized for teams using Jira.

  8. 08
    Launchpad launchpad.net Top 1K English

    Launchpad

    software forge

  9. 09
    Open Source googlesource.com Top 10K English

    Google Open Source

    Google <3 Open Source

  10. 10
    Read the Docs readthedocs.io Top 1K English

    Full featured documentation deployment platform - Read the Docs

    Read the Docs is a documentation building and hosting platform aimed at helping developers creating documentation from code with versioned documentation, integrated search, pull request previews and more.

  11. 11
    SourceForge sourceforge.net Top 1K English

    Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge

    SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well as free & fast open source software downloads and development.

  12. 12
    RustDesk rustdesk.com Top 10K English

    RustDesk: Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions

    RustDesk is open-source remote desktop software for your own self-hosted server, a TeamViewer and AnyDesk alternative for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.

  13. 13
    Wikidot wikidot.com Top 10K English

    Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting

    Polish wiki hosting corporation

  14. 14
    Supabase supabase.com Top 10K English

    Supabase | The Postgres Development Platform

    Build production-grade applications with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Realtime, Functions, Storage and Vector embeddings. Start for free.

  15. 15
    Kubernetes kubernetes.io Top 10K English

    Kubernetes

    Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. Planet scaleDesigned on the same principles that allow Google to run billions of containers a week, Kubernetes can scale without increasing your operations team.

  16. 16
    Linux kernel kernel.org Top 10K English

    The Linux Kernel Archives

    Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems

  17. 17
    Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English

    Zenodo

    research data repository

  18. 18
    HostGator hostgator.com Top 1K English

    Hostgator.com

    404: Page not found. You might ensure the URL is spelled correctly, or if you followed a link here please let us know. Please try one of the links below in order to reach your desired destination.

  19. 19
    Ollama ollama.com Top 10K

    Ollama · Run AI models locally and in the cloud

    Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

  20. 20
    Render render.com English

    Render | The cloud for builders

    Deploy and scale any app or agent from your first user to your billionth. Build faster on intuitive cloud infrastructure for the modern web.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to gitea.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Gitea uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Gitea is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

JavaScript frameworks
  • Nuxt page source: /_nuxt/
  • Vue.js implied by Nuxt (page source: /_nuxt/)
CSS & UI
Fonts
Analytics
Marketing automation
  • HubSpot page source: js.hs-scripts.com
CDN
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:amazonses.com ~all
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

Stack changes

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