Gitea Has a Free Self-Hosted Git Platform — Like GitHub but on Your Own Server With 40MB RAM

Gitea Is GitHub on Your Own Server — Uses Just 40MB RAM GitHub costs $4/user/month for private repos with advanced features. GitLab needs 4GB RAM minimum. Gitea runs on a Raspberry Pi with 40MB. What Gitea Includes Git hosting — repos, branches, tags, releases Pull requests — review, merge, CI status checks Issues — labels, milestones, boards CI/CD — Gitea Actions (GitHub Actions compatible!) Packages — npm, Docker, Maven, PyPI registries Wiki — per-repository documentation OAuth2 — provider and consumer Install # Docker (recommended) docker run -d --name = gitea \ -p 3000:3000 -p 2222:22 \ -v gitea_data:/data \ gitea/gitea:latest # Or single binary wget https://dl.gitea.io/gitea/1.22/gitea-1.22-linux-amd64 chmod +x gitea- * ./gitea- * web Gitea vs GitHub/GitLab Feature Gitea GitHub GitLab Self-hosted Yes Enterprise only Yes RAM usage 40MB N/A 4GB+ CI/CD Actions Actions Built-in Cost Free $4/user+ Free CE Package registry Yes Yes Yes Setup time 2 min N/A 30 min Why Gitea Lightweight —