Gitea

What it is for

Gitea is a self-hosted git-forge desk: you host repos, issues, and PRs, and Open Source is $0 (MIT, unlimited users and repositories). Use it when the job is a forge you start at $0, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is the official Gitea dashboard (activity feed, repositories list) from the product still — not a pricing card. The feed itself is ops of Repositories. Gitea Cloud/Enterprise is a paid seat on top.

Key features

• Repositories — a git repo you host (dashboard still; pricing Code hosting). One repo. The cover activity + repo list are ops of this. Packages sit here as a registry, not a second forge.
• Issues — a ticket on a repo (pricing Issue tracking). A thread, not a commit. Project boards are ops of this.
• Pull requests — a review before merge (pricing Pull requests). A change, not an issue.
• Actions — CI/CD workflows on the same forge (pricing Gitea Actions). A run, not a PR. Kubernetes autoscaling runners print on Enterprise.
• Self-host / Enterprise — the MIT binary you run at $0, or Enterprise at $9.5 / $19 per user/month (GitHub; pricing). A support/SSO card, not a repo. SAML, audit logs, and SLA sit on Enterprise.

The CLI / gitea binary is install. Community support is the $0 support path.

Who it's for

Best fit: 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.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from about.gitea.com/pricing. Two cards. Enterprise prints $9.5 and $19 per user/month; the asterisk says 1-year commitment required with online payment. A separate monthly-without-commitment dollar was not cleanly labeled — do not invent it.

• Open Source — $0. Self-hosted MIT. Unlimited users and repositories. Code hosting, issues, pull requests, project management, Gitea Actions, packages. Community support.
• Enterprise — $9.5 / $19 per user/month. All Open Source functionality. SAML SSO. Audit logs. Kubernetes autoscaling runners. Priority security notifications. Priority email/online support with SLA. Installation/upgrade assistant. Emergency telephone/remote support. Add or remove users anytime. Discounts for non-profits and small companies (ask).
• 3rd-party hosts are not Gitea’s card.

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Limitations / costs

• $9.5 / $19 is per user / month with a 1-year online-payment commitment. A 20-seat company is a seat bill, not a $0 forge.
• Open Source has community support only. SLA and SAML are Enterprise.
• A forge, not GitHub. Issues/PRs/Actions live on your instance.
• Not a PaaS. For a deploy canvas see Northflank.

Alternatives

• GitHub Copilot — stay on github.com when you want GitHub’s forge + Copilot, not a Gitea instance.
• GitBook — docs sites when the job is a handbook, not git hosting.
• Coolify — a self-host PaaS when you need deploys, not a forge.

Official tutorial

The @Gitea handle exists. Search-page oEmbed authors we opened were Christian Lempa / Elestio — do not embed those. No first-party Gitea dashboard upload was confirmed on 2026-10-23. Use the written path.

Written path: about.gitea.com/pricing plus the dashboard still.

Website

https://about.gitea.com

Repository

https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is the official Gitea dashboard still. Dollars checked on about.gitea.com/pricing (Open Source $0; Enterprise $9.5 / $19 per user/month, 1-year commitment). No first-party YouTube embed.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.