Every free source control tier that clears our bar in 2026: 3 offers meet the criteria and 10 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 9 of them, and on all 9 the page we cite did not answer. Each row says why.
Free OSS (MIT). Lightweight self-hosted Git service. Repository hosting, issue tracking, pull requests, CI/CD (Gitea Actions), packages registry. Low resource usage
Unlimited private and public repositories. Free forever. Powered by GitLab & Sapphire. Includes CI/CD, Static Hosting, Container Registry, Project Management and Issue Tracking. We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-11-08, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Non-profit Git hosting for free and open-source projects. Public and private Git repos, powered by [Forgejo](https://forgejo.org/). Default soft limits per account/org: 100 repositories, 750 MiB Git storage, and 1.5 GiB combined for packages, LFS, and attachments; contributors may store up to 100 MB of private content. Increases are granted on request for valid use-cases via their public requests repository. Includes [Codeberg Pages](https://codeberg.page/) static site hosting, [Codeberg CI](https://docs.codeberg.org/ci/), [Codeberg Translate](https://translate.codeberg.org/), package/container hosting, project management, and issue tracking. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Serves as a collaborative software development management system for free Software projects (for GNU Projects). We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-10-30, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Gerrit code review for GitHub repositories for free. We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-11-09, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Framagit is the software forge of Framasoft based on the Gitlab software includes CI, Static Pages, Project pages and Issue tracking. The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-11-12, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Heptapod is a friendly fork of GitLab Community Edition providing support for Mercurial. The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-10-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
A complete workflow to write, review, and deploy code, a free account for one user, and one repository with 100 MB of storage. The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Unlimited free and open source distributed version control system. Its distinctive feature is based on a sound theory of patches, which makes it easy to learn, use, and distribute. Solves many problems of git/hg/svn/darcs. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Serves as a collaborative software development management system for free Software projects (for non-GNU projects). We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-10-30, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Pagure.io was sunset in 2026; this is a read-only snapshot.
| Vendor | Free Tier | Key Limits | Durability | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gitea | Free OSS | Free OSS (MIT). Lightweight self-hosted Git service. Repository hosting, issue tracking, pull requests, CI/CD (Gitea Act... | stable | 2026-11-10 |
| RocketGit | Free | Repository Hosting based on Git. Unlimited Public and private repositories. | stable | 2026-11-06 |
| SourceForge | Free | Find, Create, and Publish Open Source software for free | stable | 2026-11-06 |
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 3 free source control offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
3 offers meet our criteria for this category. All of them carry no recorded change to the terms we publish. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.