Comparison

Gitea vs Sapling

On the evidence we track, Gitea leads this comparison with a composite score of 56/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Gitea56
Sapling50
Score
Vioscale score
Gitea56 / 100high · 77%
Sapling50 / 100low · 46%
Pricing
Free tier
Gitea
Sapling
Model
Price level
Gitealow
Saplingfree
Transparent
Gitea
Sapling
Integrations
Count
Gitea21
Sapling1
Reliability
Status page
Gitea
Sapling
Adoption
Dependent repos
Gitea41
Sapling7
Github stars
Gitea57,622
Sapling6,993
Activity
Commits last 30d
Gitea100
Sapling100
Release
Cadence days
Gitea16
Sapling34
History
Sapling20 items
License
Spdx
GiteaMIT
SaplingGPL-2.0
Language
Primary
GiteaGo
SaplingRust
Market
Availability
Sapling

Capabilities

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

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
Gitea-
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)
Gitea-
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 from Meta designed to work with Git repositories, offering both command-line and web-based interfaces for managing code and code review 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

Leader
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 ↗

Sapling

Open sourceFree 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
Sapling
macOS
Gitea
Sapling
Windows
Gitea
Sapling
Linux
Gitea
Sapling
CLI
Gitea
Sapling
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Gitea
Sapling
Self-hosted
Gitea
Sapling
On-premise
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

1 total
  • GitHub
Independently observed

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