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Comparison

Gitea vs Mercurial

No leader: the top candidate Mercurial has only 0.10 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.

Gitea full profile →Mercurial full profile →
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Gitea53
Mercurial54
Score
vioscaleAI score
Gitea53 / 100high · 76%
Mercurial54 / 100low · 10%
Pricing
Free tier
Gitea✓
Mercurial✓
Model
Giteacommercial
Mercurialfree
Price level
Gitealow
Mercurialfree
Transparent
Gitea✓
Mercurial–
Integrations
Count
Gitea21
Mercurial–
Security
Gdpr
Gitea✓
Mercurial–
Hipaa
Gitea✓
Mercurial–
Scorecard
Gitea7.1
Mercurial–
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Gitea✓
Mercurial–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Gitea41
Mercurial–
Github stars
Gitea58,303
Mercurial–
Package downloads weekly
Gitea–
Mercurial86,972
Activity
Commits last 30d
Gitea100
Mercurial–
Release
Cadence days
Gitea16
Mercurial–
History
Gitea20 items
Mercurial–
License
Spdx
GiteaMIT
Mercurial–
Language
Primary
GiteaGo
MercurialPython
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Gitea7 items
Mercurial4 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

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

Mercurial

Mercurial is a distributed source control management system designed to efficiently handle large repositories with fast performance across teams.

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

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 ↗

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
Gitea✓
Mercurial✗
macOS
Gitea✗
Mercurial✓
Windows
Gitea✗
Mercurial✓
Linux
Gitea✗
Mercurial✓
CLI
Gitea✓
Mercurial✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Gitea✓
Mercurial✗
Self-hosted
Gitea✓
Mercurial✓

Integrations

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

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

Mercurial

Not documented yet.

Still deciding?

Gitea or Mercurial: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

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