Comparison

Codeberg vs Mercurial

No leader: the top candidate Mercurial has only 0.14 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Codeberg58
Mercurial64
Score
Vioscale score
Codeberg58 / 100low · 44%
Mercurial64 / 100low · 14%
Pricing
Free tier
Codeberg
Mercurial
Model
Codebergfree
Mercurialfree
Price level
Codebergfree
Mercurialfree
Transparent
Codeberg
Mercurial
Integrations
Count
Codeberg3
Mercurial
Security
Disclosure policy
Codeberg
Mercurial
Gdpr
Codeberg
Mercurial
Reliability
Status page
Codeberg
Mercurial
Adoption
Package downloads weekly
Codeberg
Mercurial86,972
Language
Primary
Codeberg
MercurialPython
Market

Capabilities

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

Model
VCS model
CodebergDistributed
MercurialDistributed
Underlying VCS supported (Git / Mercurial / SVN / Perforce / multiple)
CodebergGit
MercurialMercurial
Deployment
Hosting
CodebergCloud only
MercurialSelf-hosted only
Review
Code review
CodebergPR / MR
MercurialNone (engine only)
Storage
Large-file / binary handling
Codeberg-
Mercurial-
Scale
Monorepo scale (partial clone / sparse / VFS)
Codeberg-
Mercurial-
DevOps
Built-in CI
Codeberg
Mercurial
Access
Access control granularity
Codeberg-
Mercurial-
Federation
Federation / decentralisation (ActivityPub / email)
Codeberg-
Mercurial-
Licensing
Open-source core
CodebergOpen-source
MercurialOpen-source
Self-managed license model
CodebergFree
MercurialFree
Integration
API surface (REST / GraphQL / webhooks)
Codeberg-
MercurialCLI
Enterprise
SSO / SAML / SCIM
Codeberg-
Mercurial
Security
Signed commits / supply-chain (GPG / SSH / sigstore)
Codeberg-
Mercurial-

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

Mercurial

Mercurial is an open-source, distributed version control tool designed to efficiently handle projects of any size. It provides each developer with a complete copy of the project history, enabling fast local operations and flexible collaboration workflows.

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 ↗

Mercurial

FreeFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Codeberg
Mercurial
macOS
Codeberg
Mercurial
Windows
Codeberg
Mercurial
Linux
Codeberg
Mercurial
CLI
Codeberg
Mercurial
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Codeberg
Mercurial
Self-hosted
Codeberg
Mercurial

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

Mercurial

Not documented yet.

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