Gogs vs Taiga
| Tagline | Minimal painless self-hosted Git service written in Go | Agile project management for cross-functional teams with Scrum and Kanban |
| Category | Project Management & Kanban | Project Management & Kanban |
| Replaces | GitHub, GitLab | Jira, Trello, Asana |
| GitHub stars | 48k | 564 |
| Language | Go | Python |
| License | MIT | MPL-2.0 |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 4/5 Involved |
| Deploy options | Docker Manual | Docker Docker Compose Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 10 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.
Gogs
- No built-in CI/CD pipeline; relies on webhooks to external systems
- Code review and pull-request functionality is basic compared to GitHub or Gitea
- Plugin/extension ecosystem is very limited
- Development pace is slower than Gitea; some features lag behind by years
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 Gogs if you want the lower-effort setup; choose Gogs for the larger community and ecosystem. Gogs has seen more recent development. Open each guide below for deploy steps and the full feature gap.