Alternatives to GitLab in 2026

Gitea go-gitea

Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

Complete system Production-ready You want a self-hosted GitHub alternative that runs on a small server with little maintenance.

★ 59k MIT Go Active, pushed today

Gogs gogs

The painless way to host your own Git service

Developer tool Production-ready You want the smallest possible Git server for a few users on modest hardware.

★ 48k MIT Go Active, pushed 2 days ago

OneDev theonedev

The Unified and Autonomous Development Platform

Complete system Production-ready A team wants an all-in-one GitLab alternative that is lighter to run.

★ 15k MIT Java Active, pushed 2 days ago

Enroute enroute-sh

Programmable git infrastructure on top of object storage. Think turbopuffer for git. Open source alternative to Pierre (code.storage) and Cloudflare Artifacts.

Building block Experimental You are building a product that needs to create and push to large numbers of Git repositories programmatically.

★ 331 Apache-2.0 Rust Active, pushed 19 days ago

Bonobo Git Server jakubgarfield

Bonobo Git Server for Windows is a web application you can install on your IIS and easily manage and connect to your git repositories. Go to homepage for release and more info.

Complete system Experimental You are locked into a Windows Server and IIS environment and need basic Git hosting with no other option allowed.

★ 1.8k MIT C# Quiet, pushed 3 years ago

Git.limo redrabbit

A Git source code management tool powered by Elixir with easy installation & high extensibility.

Complete system Experimental You are an Elixir shop interested in experimenting with a hackable Git server.

★ 515 MIT Elixir Quiet, pushed 14 months ago

GitServer linezero

ASP.NET Core Git HTTP Server

Template or starter Experimental You want to study how a Git smart HTTP server is implemented in .NET.

★ 128 MIT C# Quiet, pushed 7 years ago

Djacket Djacket

A free and open source Git server written in Python/Django. Lightweight and useful.

Complete system Experimental Rarely; only if you want a tiny Django codebase to learn from or modify.

★ 104 MIT Python Quiet, pushed 4 years ago

GitHub GitHub

Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.

Developer tool Production-ready Almost any software team or open-source project that wants the default home for code and the largest developer community.

34k readers a month Since 2008 Commercial

Bitbucket Atlassian

Bitbucket Cloud is a Git-based code and CI/CD tool optimized for teams using Jira.

Developer tool Production-ready Your team is deep in Jira and Confluence and wants code and tickets connected from one vendor.

607 readers a month Since 2012 Commercial

Azure Repos Microsoft

Get free private Git repositories and code collaboration in the cloud. Create Git pull requests and review code with Azure Repos, formerly on Visual Studio Team Services.

Developer tool Production-ready Your organisation already standardises on Azure DevOps for boards and pipelines.

Commercial