Gitea Actions
Ranked 15 of 20 CI/CD services by recommenders
People recommend it as a self-hosted CI system that runs GitHub Actions workflows nearly as well as GitHub Actions, without depending on GitHub.
People recommend it as a self-hosted CI system that runs GitHub Actions workflows nearly as well as GitHub Actions, without depending on GitHub.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Works about as well as GitHub Actions
“based on ACT, so it's nearly identical to a GitHub action runner”
Comment from 28 Apr 2026 in “GitHub is having issues now” “Gitea + Gitea Actions works approximately as well as GHA”
Comment from 16 Dec 2025 in “Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions” Runs GitHub workflows without GitHub
“Community software like act and Forgejo/Gitea Actions have made it a lot easier to run GitHub Actions workflows without involving GitHub”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions” “I've never really experienced the issues mentioned, but I also use Gitea with Actions rather than GitHub.”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion” Workflows in repo just work
“I can store some yaml in the repo and it just works”
Comment from 1 Oct 2026 in “Gitea 28.0” “Actions that work wonderfully for my use case”
Comment from 27 Apr 2026 in “GitHub is having issues now”
Other CI/CD services people recommend
The four most recommended other CI/CD services, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Actions | 234 | 741 | 24% | 12 | 2 yrs21 owners | — |
| Jenkins | 67 | 57 | 54% | 9 | — | — |
| GitLab CI | 56 | 25 | 69% | 11 | 3 yrs9 owners | Approved |
| Dagger | 43 | 23 | 65% | 10 | — | — |
| Gitea ActionsThis page | 7 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
6 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I can store some yaml in the repo and it just works”
“based on ACT, so it's nearly identical to a GitHub action runner”
“Actions that work wonderfully for my use case”
“I've never really experienced the issues mentioned, but I also use Gitea with Actions rather than GitHub.”
“Community software like act and Forgejo/Gitea Actions have made it a lot easier to run GitHub Actions workflows without involving GitHub”
“Gitea + Gitea Actions works approximately as well as GHA”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.