Compare 14 free source control tools, free tiers, and developer deals. 1 requires an application or qualification. 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. Nothing on record contradicts our terms for GitHub, Gitea and more.
What this name holds: Hosted repositories and code forges.
We track 14 source control services with a free tier we hold as current. This category has been relatively stable — only 2 pricing changes recorded across all vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub | Student Pack | Free GitHub Pro while you are a student, plus partner offers for verified students. GitHub Copilot Student includes unlimited code completions and an allowance of GitHub AI Credits, plus limited chat and agent usage with models available through auto model selection only. Also Pro-level Codespaces, a JetBrains IDE subscription renewed annually, and a 1-year .me domain from Namecheap.Restricted to student (GitHub Student Developer Pack) applicants — not generally available.Eligibility: Enrolled in a degree-granting educational institution; Valid student ID or enrollment verification | 2026-11-08 / 2026-09-24 |
| Gitea | Free OSS | Free OSS (MIT). Lightweight self-hosted Git service. Repository hosting, issue tracking, pull requests, CI/CD (Gitea Actions), packages registry. Low resource usage | 2026-11-10 |
| Codeberg | Free | 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. | 2026-10-10 / 2026-08-26 |
| framagit.org | Free | 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. | 2026-11-12 / 2026-08-02 |
| GitGud | Free | 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. | 2026-06-12 · tried 2026-11-08, no read |
| heptapod.net | Free | Heptapod is a friendly fork of GitLab Community Edition providing support for MercurialThe 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. | 2026-10-10 / 2026-08-03 |
| Pagure.io | Free | Pagure.io was sunset in 2026; this is a read-only snapshot. | 2026-10-24 / 2026-08-01 |
| pijul.com | Free | 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. | 2026-10-10 / 2026-08-02 |
| RocketGit | Free | Repository Hosting based on Git. Unlimited Public and private repositories. | 2026-11-06 |
| savannah.gnu.org | Free | 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. | 2026-09-16 / 2026-08-02 · tried 2026-10-30, no read |
| savannah.nongnu.org | Free | 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. | 2026-09-16 / 2026-07-31 · tried 2026-10-30, no read |
| beanstalkapp.com | Free | A complete workflow to write, review, and deploy code, a free account for one user, and one repository with 100 MB of storageThe 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. | 2026-10-11 / 2026-08-02 |
| gerrithub.io | Free | Gerrit code review for GitHub repositories for freeWe 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. | 2026-08-05 · tried 2026-11-09, no read |
| SourceForge | Free | Find, Create, and Publish Open Source software for free | 2026-11-06 |