vioscaleAI
Comparison

Codeberg vs Gitea

No clear leader: Codeberg (55.6) and Gitea (53.3) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Codeberg full profile →Gitea full profile →
Machine formatsMarkdownJSONGraphQLMarkdown is open. JSON and GraphQL need a free key.
Codeberg56
Gitea53
Score
vioscaleAI score
Codeberg56 / 100low · 44%
Gitea53 / 100high · 76%
Pricing
Free tier
Codeberg✓
Gitea✓
Model
Codebergfree
Giteacommercial
Price level
Codebergfree
Gitealow
Transparent
Codeberg✓
Gitea✓
Integrations
Count
Codeberg3
Gitea21
Security
Disclosure policy
Codeberg✓
Gitea–
Gdpr
Codeberg✓
Gitea✓
Hipaa
Codeberg–
Gitea✓
Scorecard
Codeberg–
Gitea7.1
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Codeberg✓
Gitea✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Codeberg–
Gitea41
Github stars
Codeberg–
Gitea58,303
Activity
Commits last 30d
Codeberg–
Gitea100
Release
Cadence days
Codeberg–
Gitea16
History
Codeberg–
Gitea20 items
License
Spdx
Codeberg–
GiteaMIT
Language
Primary
Codeberg–
GiteaGo
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Codeberg7 items
Gitea7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for version control. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Model
VCS model
CodebergDistributed
GiteaDistributed
Underlying VCS supported (Git / Mercurial / SVN / Perforce / multiple)
CodebergGit
GiteaGit
Deployment
Hosting
CodebergCloud only
GiteaCloud + self-hosted
Review
Code review
CodebergPR / MR
GiteaPR / MR
Storage
Large-file / binary handling
Codeberg-
Gitea-
Scale
Monorepo scale (partial clone / sparse / VFS)
Codeberg-
Gitea-
DevOps
Built-in CI
Codeberg✓
Gitea✓
Access
Access control granularity
Codeberg-
GiteaRepo
Federation
Federation / decentralisation (ActivityPub / email)
Codeberg-
Gitea-
Licensing
Open-source core
CodebergOpen-source
GiteaOpen-source
Self-managed license model
CodebergFree
GiteaFree
Integration
API surface (REST / GraphQL / webhooks)
Codeberg-
GiteaREST / webhooks
Enterprise
SSO / SAML / SCIM
Codeberg-
Gitea✓
Security
Signed commits / supply-chain (GPG / SSH / sigstore)
Codeberg-
Gitea✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Codeberg

A volunteer-run platform offering free infrastructure services—including code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and project hosting—exclusively for free and open-source software projects.

Independently observed

Gitea

Gitea is an open-source DevOps platform that provides Git repository hosting, code review, CI/CD pipelines via integrated Gitea Actions, and multi-format package management. It supports both cloud-hosted and self-managed deployments on Linux, Windows, macOS, and Kubernetes.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Codeberg

FreeFree tier

Completely free for all free and open-source software projects

as of verify ↗

Gitea

HybridFree tier30-day trial

Free open source or from $9.50/user/mo for enterprise cloud hosting

  • Open SourceFree
    • Code hosting
    • Issue tracking
    • Pull requests
    • Project management
    • Gitea Actions (CI/CD)
    • +4 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • All Open Source features
    • SAML SSO Integration
    • Audit Logs
    • Kubernetes AutoScaling Runners
    • Priority security bug fix notifications
    • +3 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Codeberg✓
Gitea✓
CLI
Codeberg✗
Gitea✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Codeberg✓
Gitea✓
Self-hosted
Codeberg✗
Gitea✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Codeberg

3 total
  • Forgejo
  • Woodpecker CI
  • Weblate
Independently observed

Gitea

21 total
  • GitHub Actions
  • Slack
  • Cargo
  • Chef
  • Composer
  • Conan
  • Conda
  • Container
  • Helm
  • Maven
  • NPM
  • NuGet
  • Pub
  • PyPI
  • RubyGems
  • Vagrant
  • SQLite
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • TiDB
  • MS SQL
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Codeberg or Gitea: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.