Source control hosting · RankedGitea
Gitea is a DevOps platform for source control hosting, used by teams and developers, including those who self-host to keep control of their infrastructure and data · gitea.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
GitHub is first at 86%.
GitHub is first at 78%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
GitHub is first at 68%.
Why models recommend it
“For critical/sensitive projects: Self-host using GitLab, Gitea, or Forgejo”Kimi K2 · Negative question · first choice
“Choose Gitea/Forgejo only when minimizing subscription fees matters more than minimizing administrative work”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“A lightweight, self-hosted Git service that's free and open-source... though it requires server management”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Self-host if possible (e.g., via Gitea, Forgejo, GitLab self-hosted, or SourceHut) for maximum control”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“If you're self-hosting Gitea, exercise extreme caution.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“comes with operational risks... Only self-host if you have the dedicated engineering resources”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Requires explicit admin action to disable forced merge; otherwise, admins can force merges”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Gitea, over the 71 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 71 | 47 | View → | |
| 69 | 14 | View → | |
| 67 | 2 | View → | |
| 38 | 0 | View → | |
| 33 | 0 | View → | |
| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Gitea →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Gitea's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- teams and developers
- Price stated
- Free; $9.5$19*/user/month
- Starting price
- Free
- Free plan or trial
- 30-day free trial
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 62 of the 71 answers that named Gitea and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
161 of the 161 domain citations in answers naming Gitea came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 36 | 4 | 2026-08-29 | ||
| News or press | 5 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-08-29Release of 1.27.3 blog
- 2026-08-14Release of 1.27.2 blog
- 2026-07-27Release of 1.27.1 blog
- 2026-07-12Release of 1.27.0 blog
- 2026-01-22Release of 1.25.4 blog
- 2025-12-18Release of 1.25.3 blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page gitea.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.