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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

Pick Gitea when

Self-hosting dev teams
Cost-conscious startups
Orgs needing code/data control
GitHub Actions users wanting on-prem CI

When Gitea is not a fit

Teams wanting zero-maintenance managed hosting
Enterprises needing vendor SLAs and dedicated support
Buyers wary of fork or governance risk
Non-technical teams . this is developer tooling

Pick Forgejo when

Self-hosters and privacy-minded dev teams
FOSS communities and nonprofits
Small teams leaving GitHub
Orgs needing LDAP/OAuth on zero budget

When Forgejo is not a fit

Teams happy on GitHub or GitLab cloud
Anyone without a person to run a server
Enterprises needing vendor SLAs and support contracts
Non-developer teams; this is a code forge only

Sources

Gitea Official Websitegitea.io
official
Gitea - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
news
About Giteaabout.gitea.com
official
Gitea Product Pageabout.gitea.com
official
Gitea Pricingabout.gitea.com
official
Gitea Securityabout.gitea.com
security
Gitea Downloadsgitea.io
official
Forgejo - Beyond coding. We forge.forgejo.org
official
Forgejo FAQforgejo.org
official
Comparison with other Forgesforgejo.org
official
Comparison with Giteaforgejo.org
official
Forgejo v16.0 documentationforgejo.org
official
Securing Forgejo Actions Deploymentsforgejo.org
security
forgejo/forgejo on Codebergcodeberg.org
official
Software:Forgejo - HandWikihandwiki.org
review