# Gitea

A lightweight self-hosted Git service for code, issues, and pull requests.

HTML: https://softbests.com/software/gitea
Markdown: https://softbests.com/software/gitea.md
Website: https://about.gitea.com/

- Category: [Developer utilities](https://softbests.com/category/developer-tools)
- Pricing: Freemium
- Platforms: Web, Self-hosted

## Best for

Teams that want GitHub-style collaboration on their own hardware with minimal resources.

## Why it deserves attention

Gitea runs as a single Go binary and provides repositories, issues, pull requests, code review, wikis, packages, and Actions-compatible CI, with a web UI close enough to GitHub that migration is easy. It is MIT-licensed with 58,000 GitHub stars, runs on modest hardware, and supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. It is lighter than GitLab but has a smaller CI and security ecosystem. The hosted Gitea Cloud exists, but self-hosting is the main use case.

## Can replace

- GitHub Enterprise

## Related and alternatives

- [GitButler](https://softbests.com/software/gitbutler)
- [GitHub CLI](https://softbests.com/software/github-cli)