Our take
Pick Gitea if teams who will stay on Open Source at $0 (unlimited users/repos, community support) while they open a first dashboard, then buy Enterprise at $9.5 or $19 per user/month when they need SAML, audit logs, and SLA support. Pick Tower if developers who will finish the 30-day Pro trial then pick Basic US$69/yr — or Pro US$129/yr when they need self-hosted remotes / Pro workflows, not Fork US$59.99 first
self-hosted git-forge desk
Best for
Gitea A forge you start at $0
Tower A visual Git client you start at a public $
Free plan
Gitea $0 · self-hosted MIT. Unlimited users and repositories. Code hosting, issues, pull requests, project management, Gitea Actions, packages. Community support
Tower No free plan
Lowest paid
Gitea Enterprise $9.5/user/mo
Tower Enterprise $12.42/user/mo
Next step up
Gitea
Tower Basic $69/yr
Runs where
Gitea Local or hosted
Tower Local or hosted
Watch out
Gitea $9.5 / $19 is per user / month with a 1-year online-payment commitment
Tower No free forever
Last checked
Gitea 2026-10-23 · about.gitea.com/pricing
Tower 2026-10-23 · git-tower.com/pricing
teams who will stay on Open Source at $0 (unlimited users/repos, community support) while they open a first dashboard, then buy Enterprise at $9.5 or $19 per user/month when they need SAML, audit logs, and SLA support.
Read the Gitea pagedevelopers who will finish the 30-day Pro trial then pick Basic US$69/yr — or Pro US$129/yr when they need self-hosted remotes / Pro workflows, not Fork US$59.99 first unless they want a one-time license, and not if they need a free-forever GUI.
Read the Tower page