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An open-source alternative to GitHub

Gitea is the one project in our catalog listed as a replacement for GitHub. It is developer collaboration software with 58.8K GitHub stars. Below is how it measures against the questions people usually ask first.

Gitea

Developer collaboration

Self-hosted Git with code review, issues, packages and CI.

Gitea aims to be the easiest way to run a complete software development service yourself. A single Go binary or container provides repositories, reviews, issues, packages and CI, light enough for a small server.

Host Git repositories with pull requests, code review and issue tracking.
Run CI/CD with Gitea Actions, which can reuse existing GitHub Actions workflows.
Publish packages, plan work on kanban boards and document projects in a wiki.

What people use it for

Host client code on your own server

Give each client project its own repositories, permissions and issue tracker on infrastructure you control.

Move CI off a hosted platform

Run Gitea Actions on your own runners and reuse existing GitHub Actions workflows instead of rewriting pipelines.

Publish internal packages

Use the built-in package registry to share libraries and container images between your team's projects.

58.8K starsMITGoLatest release 13 days agoWebsite ↗Full profile →

Fact checklist

The same questions the pages with more alternatives let you sort by, answered for Gitea.

Permissive licence (MIT, Apache, BSD)Licence: MIT (permissive)
Open-source licence (copyleft or permissive)Licence: MIT (permissive)
Released in the last 90 daysLatest GitHub release Oct 18, 2026 (13 days ago)
Does not meet: Gaining stars this weekNot enough star history yet to tell
Written in GoMain language on GitHub
Recommended in a stackIn Software dev shop, Data consultancy

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