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Gitea Has a Free Self-Hosted Git Service — Your Own GitHub in 5 Minutes

A small team was paying $21/user/month for GitHub Enterprise. They needed private repos and CI. For 10 developers, that was $210/month.

Gitea is a free, self-hosted Git service. Private repos, issues, pull requests, CI/CD - all in a single binary under 100MB.

What Gitea Offers for Free

  • Git Hosting - Unlimited repos, unlimited users
  • Pull Requests - Code review with inline comments
  • CI/CD - Gitea Actions (GitHub Actions compatible)
  • Issues and Projects - Full project management
  • Packages - Container registry, npm, PyPI, Maven
  • Wiki - Built-in wiki per repository
  • OAuth/LDAP - Enterprise authentication
  • Lightweight - Runs on 512MB RAM

Quick Start

docker run -d --name gitea -p 3000:3000 -p 222:22 gitea/gitea
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GitHub: go-gitea/gitea - 46K+ stars


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