# Gitea

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/gitea/  
**Website:** https://about.gitea.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 13

Gitea is an open-source, self-hosted Git service and all-in-one DevOps platform written in Go and licensed under the MIT License. It provides Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, an integrated package registry across 24+ formats, issue tracking, project boards, and GitHub-Actions-compatible CI/CD via Gitea Actions. Gitea ships with a comprehensive Swagger 2.0 / OpenAPI-described REST API at /api/v1/ exposing roughly 300 operations across repositories, users, organizations, issues, packages, notifications, admin, and miscellaneous tags. The project is governed by CommitGo, Inc., which also offers Gitea Enterprise (self-managed, with SSO, audit logs and Kubernetes auto-scaling runners) and Gitea Cloud (single-tenant fully-managed hosting in multiple regions).

## Kin Score — 65.5 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+1.1 from 64.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 77.8 |
| Contract Quality | 62.0 |
| Governance | 41.7 |
| Contract Governance | 41.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 65.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 64.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 78.9 |
| Access Clarity | 78.9 |

## Agent readiness — 35.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (13)

- **Gitea Actions API** — GitHub-Actions-compatible workflow engine embedded in Gitea. The Actions API surface is exposed under the main REST API (/repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/* and /admin/actions/*) fo...
- **Gitea Package Registry** — Multi-format package registry built into Gitea exposing client protocols for 24 ecosystems including Cargo, Composer, Conan, Conda, Container (OCI), CRAN, Debian, Generic, Go, H...
- **Gitea Webhooks** — Outbound HTTP webhook system delivering JSON event payloads for pushes, pull requests, issues, releases, package events, and more. Webhooks are configurable per repository, orga...
- **Gitea Cloud Management API** — Gitea Cloud management plane for provisioning and operating single-tenant managed Gitea instances. Each provisioned instance exposes the same REST API at /api/v1/. The managemen...
- **Gitea admin API** — The admin API from Gitea — 22 operation(s) for admin.
- **Gitea issue API** — The issue API from Gitea — 34 operation(s) for issue.
- **Gitea miscellaneous API** — The miscellaneous API from Gitea — 12 operation(s) for miscellaneous.
- **Gitea notification API** — The notification API from Gitea — 4 operation(s) for notification.
- **Gitea organization API** — The organization API from Gitea — 37 operation(s) for organization.
- **Gitea package API** — The package API from Gitea — 7 operation(s) for package.
- **Gitea repository API** — The repository API from Gitea — 133 operation(s) for repository.
- **Gitea settings API** — The settings API from Gitea — 4 operation(s) for settings.
- **Gitea user API** — The user API from Gitea — 48 operation(s) for user.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Gitea MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Gitea Agentic Access** — 944 operations · 470 acting · 12 human-in-the-loop

## Security (4)

- **Gitea Authentication** — apiKey/http · 7 schemes
- **Gitea Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Gitea Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Gitea Trust Center** — SOC 2

## Plans (1)

- **Gitea Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Self-Hosted Source Control** — Run a private Git server inside a corporate or air-gapped network, retaining full data ownership.
- **Internal Developer Platform** — Combine Git, Actions, packages, and projects to build an internal developer platform without stitching together multiple SaaS vendors.
- **GitHub Actions Compatible CI/CD** — Reuse existing GitHub Actions workflows on a self-hosted or cloud runner without depending on github.com.
- **Multi-Format Artifact Registry** — Use Gitea as a single artifact registry for OCI containers, language packages, and generic binaries.
- **Regulated And Sovereign Hosting** — Single-tenant Gitea Cloud regions provide data-residency options for regulated industries and EU customers.

## Tags

Git, Source Control, DevOps, CI/CD, Code Hosting, Open-Source, Self-Hosted, Package Registry, Issue Tracking, Pull Requests

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/gitea/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.