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Gitee versus Gitea
Compare	Gitee	Gitea
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	China-based dev teams	Self-hosting dev teams
Who it's not for	Global open-source projects	Teams wanting zero-maintenance managed hosting
Privacy	No Gitee platform CVEs found; manual code review policy since 2022; Jenkins Gitee Plugin has three 2026 CVEs.^⁹	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed; vendor states all CVEs are fixed in the latest stable release.
Support quality	No support evidence in sources	No support evidence in sources
Public sentiment	Users treat Gitee as a workable GitHub alternative inside China but criticize manual reviews and censorship.	No independent user reviews found; all quotes in sources are vendor marketing copy.¹³
Biggest gotcha	Gitee Pages shut down; host static sites elsewhere.¹²	2022 governance split: company formed, Codeberg forked to Forgejo; fork risk persists¹⁴

Pick Gitee when

China-based dev teams
Enterprises needing private Git deployment
Teams integrating DingTalk or WeCom
Compliance-heavy Chinese organizations

When Gitee is not a fit

Global open-source projects
Teams outside China
Anyone needing GitHub Pages-style hosting
Developers avoiding manual content review

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

Sources

Gitee, China's answer to GitHub, to review all codescmp.com
news
China is building a GitHub alternative called Giteetechcrunch.com
news
How censoring China's open-source coders might backfiretechnologyreview.com
news
Gitee Review: Pros and Conssilicloud.com
review
Gitee DevSecOps scanning (Gitee Scan)segmentfault.com
review
Gitee product security pagegitee.com
official
Gitee Go billing pagegitee.com
official
CVE-2026-57292 Detailnvd.nist.gov
security
CVE-2026-92140: Jenkins Gitee Plugin XSSsentinelone.com
security
Gitee 2026 funding and profiletracxn.com
news
Gitee profile and user countbaike.baidu.com
news
Gitee Pages discontinued discussionzhihu.com
review
Gitea Official Websitegitea.io
official
Gitea - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
news
About Giteaabout.gitea.com
official
Gitea Product Pageabout.gitea.com
official