2 alternatives to Forgejo

Forgejo is a Software Development product. The community recommends 2 alternatives: 0 open source, 0 self-hostable and 0 free to use. They are ranked by community votes, ratings and favorites, with the key differences from Forgejo highlighted.

Last updated: October 9, 2026

About Forgejo

A lightweight software forge focused on scaling, federation, and privacy (fork of Gitea).

Open source · MIT

Self-hostable

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Bitbucket
Software Development
Atlassian's Git hosting service with pull requests, Pipelines CI/CD and tight Jira integration.
Freemium
Web
Compared with Forgejo
- − Closed source (Forgejo is open source)
- − Not self-hostable (Forgejo is)
- − Paid (Forgejo is free)
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GitHub
Software Development
Git hosting and developer collaboration platform with pull requests, issues, Actions CI/CD, packages and Copilot.
Freemium
Web
Windows
macOS
iOS
Android
Compared with Forgejo
- − Closed source (Forgejo is open source)
- − Not self-hostable (Forgejo is)
- − Paid (Forgejo is free)
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Forgejo vs. alternatives

Service	Open source	Self-hosted	License	Pricing	Platforms	Rating	Votes
Forgejo Current	Yes	Yes	MIT	—	—	—	—
Bitbucket	No	No	proprietary	Freemium	Web	—	0
GitHub	No	No	proprietary	Freemium	Web / Windows / macOS / iOS / Android	—	0

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What is the best alternative to Forgejo?

Community-recommended alternatives to Forgejo include Bitbucket and GitHub. Compare open source, self-hosting, pricing and platforms to choose.

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Heroku
Salesforce-owned platform-as-a-service that runs apps in managed containers (dynos) with add-ons for databases and other services.
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Render
Cloud platform for deploying web services, static sites, background workers, cron jobs and managed Postgres from a Git repository.
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Postman
API platform for sending requests, testing, documenting and mocking APIs, with shared team workspaces.
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92five
Self-hosted project management application.
Self-hostable
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Active Collab
Project management.
Self-hostable
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Vercel
Frontend cloud platform for deploying web apps and Next.js sites with preview deployments, serverless functions and a global edge network.

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