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Forgejo vs Soft Serve: catalog facts
Forgejo	Soft Serve
Free The open-source software is available without a license fee. Hosting, hardware and…	Free The open-source application is available without a license fee.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted	Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted
One small binary with SQLite is enough to host a real forge Community-governed under a copyleft licence, with federation in progress	Browse and administer repositories over SSH
Smaller ecosystem of integrations than GitLab Federation is still in development rather than finished	Requires operating and maintaining a Git server.
Self-hosted, Web application	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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