Codeberg

Free Forgejo hosting from a Berlin non-profit

Codeberg is a free Git forge run by Codeberg e.V., a registered non-profit association based in Berlin. An account gets you repositories, issues and a wiki, static site hosting, CI, and a Weblate instance for translating software. On 7 October 2026 the homepage counted 725,557 projects and 437,632 users.

The software underneath is Forgejo. Gitea began as a fork of Gogs, and Forgejo split from Gitea after Gitea's domains and trademark went to a for-profit company in October 2022. Codeberg e.V. has custody of Forgejo's domains, while Forgejo keeps a governance of its own.

The comparison of Git forges weighs Codeberg against the forges you install on your own server.

Upgrades handled for you, no trackers or third-party cookies

• Nothing to operate: the association runs Forgejo on its own hardware in a rented facility in Berlin and applies upgrades itself.
• No tracking: the homepage promises no trackers, no third-party cookies and "no profiteering".
• Codeberg Pages: a public repository named pages is published at <username>.codeberg.page, and custom domains are supported.
• Two routes to CI: Woodpecker CI on application, or Forgejo Actions on your own runners. Codeberg also hosts Actions runners, in open alpha.
• Members get a vote: more than 1,700 members elect the association's presidium and board. You don't have to join to use the service.

Only free-licence projects, with mostly AI-written ones banned

Public repositories must be free software or free culture. The terms of use require a licence that allows any use, commercial included, plus copying and modification: FSF- or OSI-approved licences, or Creative Commons without the NC and ND variants. The FAQ is blunt: if you don't contribute to any free software project, "Codeberg is unfortunately not the right place for you."

Private repositories are tolerated. They cover what a free project needs to keep private for a while, such as secrets or a security fix in the works, and small personal things like notes. Free software contributors get up to 100 MB of private content, and the terms rule out personal cloud or media storage.

Some projects are turned away. The terms ban projects that mostly consist of code written by generative AI tools, naming Claude and OpenAI Codex, because their copyright status is unclear and few safeguards keep harmful code out of them. Cryptocurrency projects are banned too, as content that harms Codeberg's reputation. Pull mirrors from other forges are disabled; the FAQ suggests pushing with git push --mirror instead. A fork or test repository with no unique contributions and a month of inactivity can be removed after a notice that leaves 90 days to ask for it to be kept.

Quotas can't be bought off. Going past 750 MiB of Git storage, or 1.5 GiB of packages, LFS and attachments, takes a request to the admins. Codeberg is funded by donations and membership fees, and its FAQ states: "We do not accept any payments for exceptions to our rules."

CI access is reviewed by hand. A volunteer reviews each request for Woodpecker access and grants it if the use case looks appropriate. Woodpecker builds for linux/amd64 only, and the docs warn that CI "might break at any time and for an undefined period". The terms give no availability guarantee for the rest of the service either, and leave backups to the user.

Codeberg runs its own Forgejo branch. Production runs the codeberg-16 branch of the Codeberg-Infrastructure/forgejo repository: Forgejo v16.0 plus Codeberg-specific commits. On 7 October 2026 it included the security patches Forgejo published on 17 September, the day v16.0.5 shipped. Forgejo has been licensed under GPL v3 or later since v9.0; Gitea and Gogs are MIT.