Gitea vs OpenProject

Both are self-hosted software development - project management projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Gitea and OpenProject are closely matched on maintenance health (91 vs 94). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
GiteaOpenProject
Health score 91/100 94/100
Commits (11 mo) 1614 14719
Commits (last 3 mo) 608 4762
Stars 58k 16k
Latest release 29 Aug 2026 2 Sept 2026
Licence MIT GPL-3.0
Built with Go, Docker, K8S Ruby, deb, Docker
Typical RAM 2 GB 1 GB

Gitea

Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD.

91/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 35/40
Releases 25/25
Community 20/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 87% of tracked projects; popularity more than 98%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 89 commits 2025-11: 68 commits 2025-12: 102 commits 2026-01: 95 commits 2026-02: 134 commits 2026-03: 132 commits 2026-04: 185 commits 2026-05: 201 commits 2026-06: 171 commits 2026-07: 211 commits 2026-08: 226 commits

OpenProject

Manage your projects, tasks and goals. Collaborate via work packages and link them to your pull requests on Github.

94/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 40/40
Releases 25/25
Community 17/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity in the top 1% of tracked projects; popularity more than 86%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 1080 commits 2025-11: 1357 commits 2025-12: 761 commits 2026-01: 928 commits 2026-02: 1334 commits 2026-03: 1699 commits 2026-04: 1345 commits 2026-05: 1453 commits 2026-06: 1709 commits 2026-07: 1724 commits 2026-08: 1329 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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