Gitea vs Taiga
| Tagline | Painless self-hosted Git service with code review, CI/CD, and package registry | Agile project management for cross-functional teams with Scrum and Kanban |
| Category | Project Management & Kanban | Project Management & Kanban |
| Replaces | GitHub, GitLab, Jira | Jira, Trello, Asana |
| GitHub stars | 57k | 564 |
| Language | Go | Python |
| License | MIT | MPL-2.0 |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 4/5 Involved |
| Deploy options | Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Manual | Docker Docker Compose Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 2 days ago | 2 years ago |
| View repo | View repo |
Where each falls short
The honest trade-offs — what you give up with each, versus the proprietary tools they replace.
Gitea
- Advanced Jira-style sprint planning, roadmaps, and velocity charts are absent
- No native real-time pair-programming or live collaboration tools
- Gitea Actions ecosystem is smaller than GitHub Actions; fewer third-party action integrations
- Enterprise SSO (SAML, advanced LDAP group sync) requires extra configuration effort
Taiga
- Self-hosting the full stack (Django backend, Angular frontend, events, async) is fairly involved
- Newer rewrite has fewer features than the legacy taiga-back/front it replaces
- Smaller community and slower releases than Plane or Jira
- Limited reporting/dashboards compared to Jira
Bottom line
Choose Gitea if you want the lower-effort setup; choose Gitea for the larger community and ecosystem. Gitea has seen more recent development. Open each guide below for deploy steps and the full feature gap.
Gitea
Painless self-hosted Git service with code review, CI/CD, and package registry