Comparison

Gitea vs Gogs

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.

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★Gitea53

Gogs42

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	GiteaLeader	Gogs
vioscaleAI score	53 / 100high · 76%	42 / 100medium · 51%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	commercial	open_source
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	free
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	-
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	21	9
Security
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	-
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	-
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	7.1	5.7
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	Count: 20 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fgo-gitea%2Fgitea&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 8 · Max severity: CRITICAL	Count: 5 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fgogs%2Fgogs&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 · Max severity: CRITICAL
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	-
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	41	55
Github starsadoption.github_stars	58,303	47,864
Package downloads weeklyadoption.package_downloads_weekly	-	3,624
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	100	3
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	16	-
Historyrelease.history	20 items	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	MIT	MIT
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Go	Go
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide	-
Content
Faqcontent.faq	7 items	5 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

Gitea53 / 100high · 76%

Gogs42 / 100medium · 51%

Pricing

Free tier

Gitea✓

Gogs✓

Model

Giteacommercial

Gogsopen_source

Price level

Gitealow

Gogsfree

Transparent

Gitea✓

Gogs–

Integrations

Count

Gitea21

Gogs9

Security

Gdpr

Gitea✓

Gogs–

Hipaa

Gitea✓

Gogs–

Scorecard

Gitea7.1

Gogs5.7

Vulnerabilities

GiteaCount: 20 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fgo-gitea%2Fgitea&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 8 · Max severity: CRITICAL

GogsCount: 5 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fgogs%2Fgogs&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 · Max severity: CRITICAL

Reliability

Status page

Gitea✓

Gogs–

Adoption

Dependent repos

Gitea41

Gogs55

Github stars

Gitea58,303

Gogs47,864

Package downloads weekly

Gitea–

Gogs3,624

Activity

Commits last 30d

Gitea100

Gogs3

Release

Cadence days

Gitea16

Gogs–

History

Gitea20 items

Gogs20 items

License

Spdx

GiteaMIT

GogsMIT

Language

Primary

GiteaGo

GogsGo

Market

Availability

GiteaAvailable worldwide

Gogs–

Content

Faq

Gitea7 items

Gogs5 items

Capabilities

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

Capability comparison for Version Control
Capability	Gitea	Gogs
Model
VCS model	Distributed	Centralized
Underlying VCS supported (Git / Mercurial / SVN / Perforce / multiple)	Git	Git
Deployment
Hosting	Cloud + self-hosted	Self-hosted only
Review
Code review	PR / MR	PR / MR
Storage
Large-file / binary handling	-	Git LFS
Scale
Monorepo scale (partial clone / sparse / VFS)	-	-
DevOps
Built-in CI	✓	-
Access
Access control granularity	Repo	Repo
Federation
Federation / decentralisation (ActivityPub / email)	-	-
Licensing
Open-source core	Open-source	Open-source
Self-managed license model	Free	Free
Integration
API surface (REST / GraphQL / webhooks)	REST / webhooks	REST
Enterprise
SSO / SAML / SCIM	✓	-
Security
Signed commits / supply-chain (GPG / SSH / sigstore)	✓	-

Model

VCS model

GiteaDistributed

GogsCentralized

Underlying VCS supported (Git / Mercurial / SVN / Perforce / multiple)

GiteaGit

GogsGit

Deployment

Hosting

GiteaCloud + self-hosted

GogsSelf-hosted only

Review

Code review

GiteaPR / MR

GogsPR / MR

Storage

Large-file / binary handling

Gitea-

GogsGit LFS

Scale

Monorepo scale (partial clone / sparse / VFS)

Gitea-

Gogs-

DevOps

Built-in CI

Gitea✓

Gogs-

Access

Access control granularity

GiteaRepo

GogsRepo

Federation

Federation / decentralisation (ActivityPub / email)

Gitea-

Gogs-

Licensing

Open-source core

GiteaOpen-source

GogsOpen-source

Self-managed license model

GiteaFree

GogsFree

Integration

API surface (REST / GraphQL / webhooks)

GiteaREST / webhooks

GogsREST

Enterprise

SSO / SAML / SCIM

Gitea✓

Gogs-

Security

Signed commits / supply-chain (GPG / SSH / sigstore)

Gitea✓

Gogs-

What each one is

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

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

Gogs

A lightweight Git hosting solution designed for self-hosted deployment with minimal resource requirements and cross-platform support.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

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 2026-09-07verify ↗

Gogs

Open sourceFree tier

as of 2026-08-13verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Gitea	Gogs
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
macOSPlatforms	✗	✓
WindowsPlatforms	✗	✓
LinuxPlatforms	✗	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓
On-premiseDeployment	✗	✓

Platforms

Web

Gitea✓

Gogs✓

macOS

Gitea✗

Gogs✓

Windows

Gitea✗

Gogs✓

Linux

Gitea✗

Gogs✓

CLI

Gitea✓

Gogs✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Gitea✓

Gogs✓

Self-hosted

Gitea✓

Gogs✓

On-premise

Gitea✗

Gogs✓

Integrations

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

In common (3)

Slack
MySQL
PostgreSQL

Gitea

Leader

21 total - 18 not shared

GitHub Actions
Cargo
Chef
Composer
Conan
Conda
Container
Helm
Maven
NPM
NuGet
Pub
PyPI
RubyGems
Vagrant
SQLite
TiDB
MS SQL

Independently observed

Gogs

9 total - 6 not shared

Discord
Dingtalk
GitHub
GitHub Enterprise
MariaDB
SQLite3

Independently observed

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