Compare 13 free source control tools, free tiers, and developer deals. 1 requires an application or qualification. We could not confirm today's terms for 11 of them: on 10 the page we cite did not answer, and on 1 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.

Free Source Control Tools

13 free tiers and developer deals. One of them is not on our ranked list — 1 requires an application or qualification. We also track one whose free tier has ended. Catalogue dates here run to 2026-09-24.

What this name holds: Hosted repositories and code forges.

We track 13 source control services with a free tier we hold as current and 1 without. This category has been relatively stable — only 2 pricing changes recorded across all vendors.

Vendor Tier Description Read / catalogue date
GitHub Student Pack Superseded: As of 2026-09-09, education.github.com/pack reads: GitHub Copilot Student is available to verified students. The plan 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. We are not publishing our stored GitHub terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-09, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓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 2026-09-24
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 usageOur read on 2026-09-26 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. 2026-09-26 / 2026-07-28
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 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-09-02 / 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 2026-09-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-08-02 · tried 2026-09-10, no read
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 2026-09-26, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-06-12 · tried 2026-09-26, no read
heptapod.net Free Heptapod is a friendly fork of GitLab Community Edition providing support for MercurialThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-09-02 / 2026-08-03
Pagure.io Free Pagure.io was sunset in 2026; this is a read-only snapshot. 2026-09-15 / 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 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-09-02 / 2026-08-02
RocketGit Free Repository Hosting based on Git. Unlimited Public and private repositories.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-09-02 / 2026-08-01
savannah.gnu.org Free Serves as a collaborative software development management system for free Software projects (for GNU Projects)The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-16, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-09-16 / 2026-08-02
savannah.nongnu.org Free Serves as a collaborative software development management system for free Software projects (for non-GNU projects)The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-16, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-09-16 / 2026-07-31
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 states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-09-02 / 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 2026-09-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-08-05 · tried 2026-09-14, no read
SourceForge Free Find, Create, and Publish Open Source software for free 2026-04-12 · tried 2026-09-26, no read

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free source control service?
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 14 Source Control services in our catalogue, listed in the table above with each one's tier, published terms and the read and catalogue dates we hold. 13 of them state a free tier we hold as current and 1 does not — the tier column says which. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
How many free source control tools are there?
We track 14 source control services on AgentDeals, 13 of which state a free tier we hold as current. These range from generous always-free tiers to limited trial periods. Of the 14 Source Control entries we hold, 1 carries terms a read confirmed in the last 90 days.
How stable are source control free tiers?
2 pricing changes have been recorded across source control vendors. Check our Stability Dashboard for per-vendor details.
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