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Comparison

Fossil vs Gitea

On the evidence we track, Gitea leads this comparison with a composite score of 53/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Fossil full profile →Gitea full profile →
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Fossil46
★Gitea53
Score
vioscaleAI score
Fossil46 / 100low · 3%
Gitea53 / 100high · 76%
Pricing
Free tier
Fossil✓
Gitea✓
Model
Price level
Fossilfree
Gitealow
Transparent
Fossil✓
Gitea✓
Integrations
Count
Fossil1
Gitea21
Security
Gdpr
Fossil–
Gitea✓
Hipaa
Fossil–
Gitea✓
Scorecard
Fossil–
Gitea7.1
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Fossil–
Gitea✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Fossil–
Gitea41
Github stars
Fossil–
Gitea58,303
Activity
Commits last 30d
Fossil–
Gitea100
Release
Cadence days
Fossil–
Gitea16
History
Fossil–
Gitea20 items
License
Spdx
Fossil–
GiteaMIT
Language
Primary
Fossil–
GiteaGo
Market
Availability
Fossil–
GiteaAvailable worldwide
Content
Faq
Fossil4 items
Gitea7 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Fossil

An open-source distributed version control system that combines version control with built-in project management features including bug tracking, wikis, forums, and email alerts. It runs as a single self-contained executable with a built-in web interface and can be easily self-hosted on minimal infrastructure.

Independently observed

Gitea

Leader

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.

Fossil

Open sourceFree tier

Free and open-source

as of verify ↗

Gitea

Leader
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
Fossil✗
Gitea✓
Linux
Fossil✓
Gitea✗
CLI
Fossil✓
Gitea✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Fossil✗
Gitea✓
Self-hosted
Fossil✓
Gitea✓
On-premise
Fossil✓
Gitea✗

Integrations

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

Fossil

1 total
  • GitHub
Independently observed

Gitea

Leader
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
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