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Comparison

Gitea vs Mercurial

No leader: the top candidate Mercurial has only 0.14 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 →
Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Gitea56
Mercurial64
Score
Vioscale score
Gitea56 / 100high · 77%
Mercurial64 / 100low · 14%
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
Gitea57,622
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

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
Gitea-
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)
Gitea-
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 an open-source, distributed version control tool designed to efficiently handle projects of any size. It provides each developer with a complete copy of the project history, enabling fast local operations and flexible collaboration workflows.

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

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 ↗

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✓
On-premise
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.

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