Comparison

Gitea vs Home Assistant

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
Home Assistant30
Score
vioscaleAI score
Gitea53 / 100high · 76%
Home Assistant30 / 100low · 38%
Pricing
Free tier
Gitea✓
Home Assistant✓
Model
Home Assistantopen_source
Price level
Gitealow
Home Assistantfree
Transparent
Gitea✓
Home Assistant–
Integrations
Count
Gitea21
Home Assistant1,500
Reliability
Status page
Gitea✓
Home Assistant–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Gitea41
Home Assistant0
Github stars
Gitea58,303
Home Assistant227
Activity
Commits last 30d
Gitea100
Home Assistant0
Release
Cadence days
Gitea16
Home Assistant187
History
Home Assistant6 items
License
Spdx
GiteaMIT
Home AssistantMIT
Language
Primary
GiteaGo
Home AssistantSCSS
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Gitea7 items
Home Assistant6 items

Features

The capabilities each product documents. These tools do not share a category taxonomy, so this aligns what each vendor states rather than a normalised feature set.

Declared feature comparison
FeatureGiteaHome Assistant
Access controlrepo-
Api surfaceREST / webhooks-
Built in ci✓-
Code reviewpr_mr-
Hostingboth-
License modelfree-
Open source coreopen_source-
Signed commits✓-
Sso saml scim✓-
Underlying vcsGit-
Vcs modeldistributed-

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

Home Assistant

A freely-available home automation solution that runs entirely on local hardware, allowing users to connect and control smart devices while keeping data on-premises and private.

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 verify ↗

Home Assistant

Open source
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Gitea✓
Home Assistant✗
iOS
Gitea✗
Home Assistant✓
Android
Gitea✗
Home Assistant✓
CLI
Gitea✓
Home Assistant✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Gitea✓
Home Assistant✗
Self-hosted
Gitea✓
Home Assistant✓

Integrations

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

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

Home Assistant

3 total
  • Huawei LTE
  • NodeRed
  • Discord
Independently observed
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