Comparison

Gitea vs Forgejo

Gitea and Forgejo both land on Depends.

Gitea

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if your team wants a free, self-hosted GitHub-style forge and can run and patch a server yourself.

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy it if you need self-hosted Git hosting and have someone for basic server upkeep . it is free and genuinely low-maintenance.

Gitea versus Forgejo
Compare	Gitea	Forgejo
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Self-hosting dev teams	Self-hosters and privacy-minded dev teams
Who it's not for	Teams wanting zero-maintenance managed hosting	Teams happy on GitHub or GitLab cloud
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed; vendor states all CVEs are fixed in the latest stable release.^⁶	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.^⁹
Support quality	No support evidence in sources	Volunteers and docs; no paid support
Public sentiment	No independent user reviews found; all quotes in sources are vendor marketing copy.^¹	No independent user reviews were found in the sources reviewed; evidence is mostly official docs and project-run instances.¹⁴
Biggest gotcha	2022 governance split: company formed, Codeberg forked to Forgejo; fork risk persists^²	Forgejo Actions executes pull-request code with secrets access; misconfiguration risks leaks.¹³