Fossil
A Coherent Software Configuration Management System
- Also known as
- fossil
What is Fossil?
Distributed version control system with integrated project management including bug tracking, wiki, forum, email alerts, chat, and technotes, featuring a built-in web interface.
Fossil pricing
We don't have Fossil's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Free and open-source (2-clause BSD license)
What Fossil does
The capabilities that matter for version control, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- VCS model
- Distributed
- Underlying VCS supported (Git / Mercurial / SVN / Perforce / multiple)
- -
- Hosting
- Self-hosted only
- Code review
- -
- Large-file / binary handling
- -
- Monorepo scale (partial clone / sparse / VFS)
- -
- Built-in CI
- -
- Access control granularity
- -
- Federation / decentralisation (ActivityPub / email)
- -
- Open-source core
- Open-source
- Self-managed license model
- Free
- API surface (REST / GraphQL / webhooks)
- -
- SSO / SAML / SCIM
- -
- Signed commits / supply-chain (GPG / SSH / sigstore)
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- macOS
- Web
- Linux
- Windows
- Self-hosted
Integrations (1)
Independently observed- GitHub
Fossil alternatives
Other version control we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- GitA free and open source distributed version control systemlow · 6%
- ForgejoBeyond coding. We forge.low · 3%
- MercurialWork easier, Work fasterlow · 8%
- GerritThe open source, patchset based, code review platform for Git-based developmentlow · 29%
- Apache SubversionEnterprise-class centralized version control for the masseslow · 10%
- GiteaPrivate, Fast, Reliable DevOps Platformlow · 34%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Fossil, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing Transparency | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 100 | 6.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 9 | 8.00 | 69.3 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Capabilities | 0 | 16.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 13.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.