Gitea
Indicative from-price range
Indicative from-price range for self-hosting Gitea on 1 server: about $24 to $112 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Active users: 100; Repository storage (GB): 100). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $24 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $49 on Google Cloud (e2-standard-2, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, us-central1); $63 on Amazon Web Services (c9g.large, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, us-east-1); $64 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $66 on Microsoft Azure (D2as_v7, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, eastus); $66 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $262 on Servers.com (dl-01, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-west).
Reference workload
- Active users: 100
- Repository storage (GB): 100
Methodology
This range is generated automatically from public provider price lists. It has not been reviewed by a person, it is not a quote, and it may differ from the total the calculator chooses for your own workload with its AI step. Method: the calculator's offer shortlist for the reference workload (the same ranking it builds before the AI step, up to 12 offers across providers; 12 here) is priced at its monthly list price in USD. The low end is the cheapest of the per-provider from-prices below and the high end is the median server of the combined shortlist, each multiplied by 1, the smallest baseline topology (single-node). The from-price for each provider applies the same method to that provider's own shortlist (the calculator's ranking restricted to that provider), so it is the cheapest server that ranking offers there, not a recommendation. Prices are taken from the price snapshot dated 2026-10-19; prices quoted in EUR are converted with the ECB reference rate dated 2026-10-19. Servers with fewer than 2 vCPU or less than 4 GB RAM are not priced. Only server rental list prices for the product's own servers are counted: dependencies, licences, support, traffic charges, taxes and setup fees are not included.
Price sources
- Amazon Web Services: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.json
- DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets
- Google Cloud: https://cloudbilling.googleapis.com/v1/services/6F81-5844-456A/skus
- Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/_resources/app/data/app/live_data_en_EUR.json
- Microsoft Azure: https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices
- OVHcloud: https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/order/catalog/public/eco?ovhSubsidiary=FR
- Servers.com: https://www.servers.com/products/scalable-bare-metal
Size Gitea for your own workloadMarkdown versionFor AI agents (llms.txt)
Gitea is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service that bundles repository hosting, code review, issue tracking, CI/CD, and a package registry into a single low-resource binary. It was forked from Gogs to keep the project independent and community-driven.
What gets deployed with it
- PostgreSQL HA Cluster — required Gitea requires an external relational database for production use. SQLite is not suitable for multi-user deployments.
Baseline topologies
| Topology | Minimum nodes | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| single-node | 1 | gitea |
What drives the cost
- Active users
- Number of users who actively interact with Gitea daily. Primary driver for CPU and memory sizing.
- Repository storage (GB)
- Total size of all Git repositories and LFS objects. Drives disk I/O and storage capacity.
Where it runs
bare_metal, dedicated, cloud_vm
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