Open-source alternatives to GitHub

3 alternatives, ranked by a published maintenance score computed from live GitHub signals (fetched 2026-09-04). We flag unmaintained projects on both sides — including GitHub itself when the data says so.

About GitHub: Proprietary platform (owned by Microsoft) — the code you host there is yours, the platform is not. Ironically, this page's data comes from its API. It is closed-source, so the same public maintenance signals do not exist for it — we score only the alternatives below.

The alternatives

Gitea

90 /100 actively maintained

Lightweight self-hosted Git service: repos, issues, PRs, actions.

57,819 stars · last commit 2026-09-04 · latest release v1.27.3 (2026-08-29) · 2,536 open issues/PRs · MIT · fetched 2026-09-04

How this 90/100 was computed
Last committoday40/40
Latest release6 days ago25/25
Community sizeGitHub stars15/15
Open-issue trendnot enough history yet — needs snapshots 21+ days apart; neutral 10/20 awarded meanwhile10/20
Total90/100

GitLab

90 /100 actively maintained

The full DevOps platform; open-core, self-hostable.

24,551 stars · last commit 2026-09-04 · latest release v19.3.1 (2026-08-25) · 36 open issues/PRs · custom license · fetched 2026-09-04

How this 90/100 was computed
Last committoday40/40
Latest release10 days ago25/25
Community sizeGitHub stars15/15
Open-issue trendnot enough history yet — needs snapshots 21+ days apart; neutral 10/20 awarded meanwhile10/20
Total90/100

OneDev

87 /100 actively maintained

Git server with built-in CI/CD and code search, single binary.

15,225 stars · last commit 2026-09-03 · latest release v16.5.11 (2026-09-03) · 0 open issues/PRs · MIT · fetched 2026-09-04

How this 87/100 was computed
Last commityesterday40/40
Latest releaseyesterday25/25
Community sizeGitHub stars12/15
Open-issue trendnot enough history yet — needs snapshots 21+ days apart; neutral 10/20 awarded meanwhile10/20
Total87/100