Comparison

Gitea vs Sapling

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

Sapling48

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	GiteaLeader	Sapling
vioscaleAI score	53 / 100high · 76%	48 / 100medium · 61%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	commercial	open_source
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	free
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	21	5
Security
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	-
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	-
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	7.1	5.6
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	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=cargo&package_name=esl01-minibytes&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	41	7
Github starsadoption.github_stars	58,303	7,032
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	100	100
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	16	34
Historyrelease.history	20 items	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	MIT	GPL-2.0
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Go	Rust
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide	-
Content
Faqcontent.faq	7 items	5 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

Gitea53 / 100high · 76%

Sapling48 / 100medium · 61%

Pricing

Free tier

Gitea✓

Sapling✓

Model

Giteacommercial

Saplingopen_source

Price level

Gitealow

Saplingfree

Transparent

Gitea✓

Sapling✓

Integrations

Count

Gitea21

Sapling5

Security

Gdpr

Gitea✓

Sapling–

Hipaa

Gitea✓

Sapling–

Scorecard

Gitea7.1

Sapling5.6

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

SaplingCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=cargo&package_name=esl01-minibytes&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

Reliability

Status page

Gitea✓

Sapling✓

Adoption

Dependent repos

Gitea41

Sapling7

Github stars

Gitea58,303

Sapling7,032

Activity

Commits last 30d

Gitea100

Sapling100

Release

Cadence days

Gitea16

Sapling34

History

Gitea20 items

Sapling20 items

License

Spdx

GiteaMIT

SaplingGPL-2.0

Language

Primary

GiteaGo

SaplingRust

Market

Availability

GiteaAvailable worldwide

Sapling–

Content

Faq

Gitea7 items

Sapling5 items

Capabilities

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

Capability comparison for Version Control
Capability	Gitea	Sapling
Model
VCS model	Distributed	Distributed
Underlying VCS supported (Git / Mercurial / SVN / Perforce / multiple)	Git	Git
Deployment
Hosting	Cloud + self-hosted	Self-hosted only
Review
Code review	PR / MR	PR / MR
Storage
Large-file / binary handling	-	-
Scale
Monorepo scale (partial clone / sparse / VFS)	-	✓
DevOps
Built-in CI	✓	-
Access
Access control granularity	Repo	-
Federation
Federation / decentralisation (ActivityPub / email)	-	-
Licensing
Open-source core	Open-source	Open-source
Self-managed license model	Free	-
Integration
API surface (REST / GraphQL / webhooks)	REST / webhooks	CLI, webhooks
Enterprise
SSO / SAML / SCIM	✓	-
Security
Signed commits / supply-chain (GPG / SSH / sigstore)	✓	-

Model

VCS model

GiteaDistributed

SaplingDistributed

Underlying VCS supported (Git / Mercurial / SVN / Perforce / multiple)

GiteaGit

SaplingGit

Deployment

Hosting

GiteaCloud + self-hosted

SaplingSelf-hosted only

Review

Code review

GiteaPR / MR

SaplingPR / MR

Storage

Large-file / binary handling

Gitea-

Sapling-

Scale

Monorepo scale (partial clone / sparse / VFS)

Gitea-

Sapling✓

DevOps

Built-in CI

Gitea✓

Sapling-

Access

Access control granularity

GiteaRepo

Sapling-

Federation

Federation / decentralisation (ActivityPub / email)

Gitea-

Sapling-

Licensing

Open-source core

GiteaOpen-source

SaplingOpen-source

Self-managed license model

GiteaFree

Sapling-

Integration

API surface (REST / GraphQL / webhooks)

GiteaREST / webhooks

SaplingCLI, webhooks

Enterprise

SSO / SAML / SCIM

Gitea✓

Sapling-

Security

Signed commits / supply-chain (GPG / SSH / sigstore)

Gitea✓

Sapling-

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

Sapling

An open-source version control system built for Git compatibility and developer productivity that scales to millions of files. It provides an intuitive work-stacking model for code review and iteration, plus a virtual filesystem for performance optimization in large codebases.

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 2026-09-07verify ↗

Sapling

Open source

as of 2026-10-13verify ↗

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	Sapling
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
macOSPlatforms	✗	✓
WindowsPlatforms	✗	✓
LinuxPlatforms	✗	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✗
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓

Platforms

Web

Gitea✓

Sapling✓

macOS

Gitea✗

Sapling✓

Windows

Gitea✗

Sapling✓

Linux

Gitea✗

Sapling✓

CLI

Gitea✓

Sapling✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Gitea✓

Sapling✗

Self-hosted

Gitea✓

Sapling✓

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

Sapling

5 total

GitHub
VS Code
Git
Visual Studio
ReviewStack

Independently observed

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