Comparison

Gitea vs Plex

No clear leader: Plex (57.6) and Gitea (53.3) 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 →Plex full profile →

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Gitea53

Plex58

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Gitea	Plex
vioscaleAI score	53 / 100high · 76%	58 / 100low · 35%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	commercial	freemium
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	low
Starting pricepricing.starting_price	-	$249.99
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	21	1
Security
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	-
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	7.1	-
Trust centersecurity.trust_center	-	https://www.plex.tv/blog/security-notice-forum-user-password-resets/
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	-
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	41	-
Github starsadoption.github_stars	58,303	-
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	100	-
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	16	-
Historyrelease.history	20 items	-
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	MIT	-
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Go	-
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide	Available worldwide · Popular in US
Content
Faqcontent.faq	7 items	4 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

Gitea53 / 100high · 76%

Plex58 / 100low · 35%

Pricing

Free tier

Gitea✓

Plex✓

Model

Giteacommercial

Plexfreemium

Price level

Gitealow

Plexlow

Starting price

Gitea–

Plex$249.99

Transparent

Gitea✓

Plex✓

Integrations

Count

Gitea21

Plex1

Security

Gdpr

Gitea✓

Plex✓

Hipaa

Gitea✓

Plex–

Scorecard

Gitea7.1

Plex–

Trust center

Gitea–

Plexhttps://www.plex.tv/blog/security-notice-forum-user-password-resets/

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

Plex–

Reliability

Status page

Gitea✓

Plex✓

Adoption

Dependent repos

Gitea41

Plex–

Github stars

Gitea58,303

Plex–

Activity

Commits last 30d

Gitea100

Plex–

Release

Cadence days

Gitea16

Plex–

History

Gitea20 items

Plex–

License

Spdx

GiteaMIT

Plex–

Language

Primary

GiteaGo

Plex–

Market

Availability

GiteaAvailable worldwide

PlexAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

Content

Faq

Gitea7 items

Plex4 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
Feature	Gitea	Plex
Access control	repo	-
Api surface	REST / webhooks	-
Built in ci	✓	-
Code review	pr_mr	-
Hosting	both	-
License model	free	-
Open source core	open_source	-
Signed commits	✓	-
Sso saml scim	✓	-
Underlying vcs	Git	-
Vcs model	distributed	-

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

Plex

Plex is a streaming platform offering free movies and television series. It also enables users to create and manage personal media libraries and integrates with music services for unified media access.

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 2026-09-07verify ↗

Plex

from $249.99/yrHybridFree tier30-day trial

Free tier with 30-day trial. Plex Pass subscriptions: monthly/annual (prices not specified in source), 5-year ($249.99), or lifetime ($749.99 as of July 1, 2026).

FreeFree
- Free movies and TV shows
- Watchlist
Plex Pass MonthlyMonthly subscription (price not specified in source)
Plex Pass AnnualAnnual subscription (price not specified in source)
Plex Pass 5-Year$249.99 for 5-year term
Plex Pass Lifetime$749.99 one-time (effective July 1, 2026)

as of 2026-09-01verify ↗

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	Plex
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
iOSPlatforms	✗	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✗
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓

Platforms

Web

Gitea✓

Plex✓

iOS

Gitea✗

Plex✓

CLI

Gitea✓

Plex✗

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Gitea✓

Plex✓

Self-hosted

Gitea✓

Plex✓

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

Plex

1 total

TIDAL

Independently observed

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