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 Woodpecker if teams who already run Gitea / Forgejo / GitHub and will stay on the Apache self-host at $0 while they open a first pipeline log, then keep self-hosting because
self-hosted git-forge desk
open-source CI desk
Best for
Gitea A forge you start at $0
Woodpecker Pipelines you start at $0 on your host
Free plan
Gitea $0 · self-hosted MIT. Unlimited users and repositories. Code hosting, issues, pull requests, project management, Gitea Actions, packages. Community support
Woodpecker $0 · apache-2.0. You run the server + one or more agents + a forge. Confirmed by the repo LICENSE (“Apache License / Version 2.0”)
Lowest paid
Gitea Enterprise $9.5/user/mo
Woodpecker Not published by the vendor
Coding agent
Gitea
Woodpecker Pipelines
Runs where
Gitea Local or hosted
Woodpecker
Watch out
Gitea $9.5 / $19 is per user / month with a 1-year online-payment commitment
Woodpecker $0 is the license, not the agent VM
Last checked
Gitea 2026-10-23 · about.gitea.com/pricing
Woodpecker 2026-10-23 · github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/blob
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 pageteams who already run Gitea / Forgejo / GitHub and will stay on the Apache self-host at $0 while they open a first pipeline log, then keep self-hosting because Woodpecker does not print a hosted Cloud dollar.
Read the Woodpecker page