Comparison

Gitea vs Gogs: A painless self-hosted Git service

Gitea and Gogs: A painless self-hosted Git service 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 if you want a free, lightweight Git server on your own hardware and someone on the team can run it.

Gitea versus Gogs: A painless self-hosted Git service
Compare	Gitea	Gogs: A painless self-hosted Git service
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Self-hosting dev teams	Self-hosters and hobbyists
Who it's not for	Teams wanting zero-maintenance managed hosting	Enterprises needing CI/CD and vendor support
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.¹¹
Support quality	No support evidence in sources	No support evidence in sources
Public sentiment	No independent user reviews found; all quotes in sources are vendor marketing copy.^¹	Users praise Gogs as lightweight and painless to deploy, though many self-hosters now favor its forks.¹³
Biggest gotcha	2022 governance split: company formed, Codeberg forked to Forgejo; fork risk persists^²	Free software means paid ops: updates, backups, and security patching fall on your team.^⁹