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CircleCI vs Gitea
CircleCI focuses on CI/CD pipelines; Gitea adds full source control and project management.
Which to pick
Pick CircleCI if you want…
- AI-powered continuous integration
- Scalable CI/CD pipelines
- Integrations with GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket (on CircleCI's list, not Gitea's)
Pick Gitea if you want…
- All-in-one self-hosted Git and CI/CD platform
- Open-source code (go-gitea/gitea on GitHub, MIT license)
- Integrations with Slack, Discord or MS Teams (on Gitea's list, not CircleCI's)
Side by side
- What it is
- CircleCI:CircleCI is a CI/CD platform that automates building, testing, and deploying code with AI-enhanced automation.
- Gitea:Self-hosted Git service with code hosting, code review, issue tracking, packages and built-in CI/CD.
- Best for
- CircleCI:AI-powered continuous integration
- Gitea:All-in-one self-hosted Git and CI/CD platform
- Who it’s for
- CircleCI:Developers, platform engineers, security engineers, and engineering managers.
- Gitea:Developers and teams needing a self-hosted Git platform with CI/CD and package registry.
- Pricing
- CircleCI:Freemium
- Gitea:Freemium
- Plans
- CircleCI:Free $0 per month · Performance $15 per month
- Gitea:Open Source Free
- Open source
- CircleCI:—
- Gitea:Yes, 58,252 GitHub stars
- Works with
- CircleCI:GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes
- Gitea:Slack, Discord, MS Teams, Lark, GitHub Actions, Drone, Woodpecker, Argo CD
CircleCI features
- Execution environments. Run jobs in Docker, Linux, Windows, macOS, Arm and GPU containers.
- Build optimization. Layer caching and resource classes speed up builds and reduce compute usage.
- Autoscaling. Automatically adds resources to handle peak workloads.
- Technical services. Provides release management, rollback, and deployment orchestration.
- Orbs registry. Reusable, shareable YAML packages for common CI tasks.
Gitea features
- Code hosting & review. Create, manage and review Git repositories with pull requests and branch protection.
- Integrated CI/CD. Gitea Actions runs workflows using GitHub-compatible YAML syntax and over 20 K plugins.
- Project management. Issue tracking, kanban boards, milestones, time tracking and dependencies.
- Package registry. Supports more than 20 public or private package types such as NPM, Maven, PyPI and Docker.
- Multi-platform deployment. Runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD and Kubernetes with x86 and arm64 support.
- Enterprise features. SAML SSO, audit logs, Kubernetes auto-scaling runners and priority support in Enterprise plan.
CircleCI vs Gitea FAQ
Is CircleCI or Gitea free?+
CircleCI has a free plan; paid plans start at $15/month (Performance). Gitea has a free plan (Open Source) and paid plans.
Is CircleCI or Gitea open source?+
Gitea is open source (go-gitea/gitea on GitHub, MIT license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for CircleCI.
Do CircleCI and Gitea integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: CircleCI lists GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, AWS and 2 more; Gitea lists Slack, Discord, MS Teams, Lark and 7 more.
On DevHunt
Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.