Comparison

Forgejo 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.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Forgejo46
Mercurial64
Score
Vioscale score
Forgejo46 / 100low · 8%updating
Mercurial64 / 100low · 14%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Forgejo
Mercurial
Model
Mercurialfree
Price level
Forgejofree
Mercurialfree
Transparent
Forgejo
Mercurial
Security
Disclosure policy
Forgejo
Mercurial
Reliability
Status page
Forgejo
Mercurial
Adoption
Package downloads weekly
Forgejo
Mercurial86,972
Language
Primary
Forgejo
MercurialPython
Market

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Forgejo

Open-source platform for managing software projects and collaborative development. Can be deployed as a cloud-hosted instance or self-hosted, offering a GitHub-like experience with lower resource requirements and built-in federation support.

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.

Forgejo

Open sourceFree tier

Free and open source. Use hosted instances or self-host at no cost.

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
Forgejo
Mercurial
macOS
Forgejo
Mercurial
Windows
Forgejo
Mercurial
Linux
Forgejo
Mercurial
CLI
Forgejo
Mercurial
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Forgejo
Mercurial
Self-hosted
Forgejo
Mercurial
Hybrid
Forgejo
Mercurial

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