What are the best indie alternatives to GitLab?

3 curated indie and bootstrapped alternatives to GitLab: Gitea, Forgejo, Sourcehut. All are smaller, founder-led tools that compete with GitLab on price, openness or developer experience.

How much does GitLab cost?

GitLab has a freemium pricing model starting at $29/seat/mo (Premium).

GitLab was founded by Sytse 'Sid' Sijbrandij, Dmitriy Zaporozhets in 2011.

What category does GitLab fall under?

GitLab is listed in Code & Git Hosting. See all code & git hosting tools in our directory.

Code & Git Hosting3 alternativesFreemium · $29/seat/mo (Premium)

Alternatives to GitLab

GitLab is the all-in-one DevOps suite. Indie alternatives are below.

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Pricing

$29/seat/mo (Premium)

Freemium

About

Founded 2011

Founders

Sytse 'Sid' SijbrandijCo-founder & CEO
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Dmitriy ZaporozhetsCo-founder
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Top indie alternatives

Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with GitLab.

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Gitea

Self-hosted Git service.

Self-hosted GitLab alternative.

OSSOSS

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Forgejo

Community-led Gitea fork.

Powers Codeberg.

OSSOSS

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Sourcehut

Hacker-friendly forge.

Smaller, indie, paid.

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