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Comparison

Gitea vs Miniflux

No clear leader: Gitea (53.3) and Miniflux (49.9) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Gitea full profile →Miniflux full profile →
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Gitea53
Miniflux50
Score
vioscaleAI score
Gitea53 / 100high · 76%
Miniflux50 / 100low · 39%
Pricing
Free tier
Gitea✓
Miniflux✓
Model
Price level
Gitealow
Minifluxfree
Transparent
Gitea✓
Miniflux–
Integrations
Count
Gitea21
Miniflux–
Security
Gdpr
Gitea✓
Miniflux–
Hipaa
Gitea✓
Miniflux–
Scorecard
Gitea7.1
Miniflux6.9
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Gitea✓
Miniflux–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Gitea41
Miniflux12
Github stars
Gitea58,303
Miniflux9,794
Activity
Commits last 30d
Gitea100
Miniflux13
Release
Cadence days
Gitea16
Miniflux29
History
Gitea20 items
Miniflux20 items
License
Spdx
GiteaMIT
MinifluxApache-2.0
Language
Primary
GiteaGo
MinifluxGo
Market
Availability
GiteaAvailable worldwide
Miniflux–
Content
Faq
Gitea7 items
Miniflux4 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
FeatureGiteaMiniflux
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

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

Miniflux

A feed subscription and reading application that fetches full articles while protecting user privacy through various anti-tracking mechanisms, delivered via a streamlined interface without analytics or advertising.

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 ↗

Miniflux

Open sourceFree tier

Free, 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✓
Miniflux–
CLI
Gitea✓
Miniflux–
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Gitea✓
Miniflux✗
Self-hosted
Gitea✓
Miniflux✓
On-premise
Gitea✗
Miniflux✓

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

Miniflux

Not documented yet.

Still deciding?

Gitea or Miniflux: 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.