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Comparison

Git vs Gitea

No leader: the top candidate Git has only 0.34 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.

Git full profile →Gitea full profile →
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Git58
Gitea56
Score
Vioscale score
Git58 / 100low · 34%
Gitea56 / 100high · 77%
Pricing
Free tier
Git✓
Gitea✓
Model
Price level
Gitfree
Gitealow
Transparent
Git✓
Gitea✓
Integrations
Count
Git–
Gitea21
Security
Gdpr
Git–
Gitea✓
Hipaa
Git–
Gitea✓
Scorecard
Git5.2
Gitea7.1
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Git–
Gitea✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Git326
Gitea41
Github stars
Git62,807
Gitea57,622
Activity
Commits last 30d
Git100
Gitea100
Release
Cadence days
Git–
Gitea16
History
Git–
Gitea20 items
License
Spdx
Git–
GiteaMIT
Language
Primary
GitC
GiteaGo
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Git

A distributed version control system built for speed and efficiency, widely used by developers to track code changes and manage project history. Available as free and open source software under GPLv2.

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.

Git

Open sourceFree tier

Free and open source

as of verify ↗

Gitea

from $9.50/moHybridFree tier30-day trial

Free open-source tier or from $9.50/user/month for enterprise

  • Open SourceFree
    • Code hosting
    • Issue tracking
    • Pull requests
    • Project management
    • Gitea Actions (CI/CD)
    • +2 more
  • EnterpriseFrom $9.50/user/month (1-year annual commitment)
    • All Free 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
Git✗
Gitea✓
macOS
Git✗
Gitea✓
Windows
Git✗
Gitea✓
Linux
Git✗
Gitea✓
CLI
Git✓
Gitea✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Git✗
Gitea✓
Self-hosted
Git✓
Gitea✓
On-premise
Git✗
Gitea✓

Integrations

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

Git

Not documented yet.

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

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