Managed Forgejo compared: Fjord vs Codebahn, Codey, GitHub, GitLab, and more

Fjord

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Managed Forgejo comparison

How Fjord compares.

The real buying criteria are practical: dedicated or shared tenancy, upstream Forgejo or a fork, fully managed operations or infrastructure only, per-seat or per-instance pricing, region and jurisdiction posture, CI, Pages, mobile access, CLI, migration, export, no-AI-training terms, and published certifications. The right answer depends on which of those constraints is binding.

Find the short list

What are you looking for?

Showing all comparison options.

Fjord

Managed upstream Forgejo with dedicated tenancy, per-instance pricing, mobile and CLI, Pages, CI, export, and written no-AI-training terms.

Codebahn

Managed Forgejo from a Swedish company, using a maintained Forgejo fork on EU-only infrastructure.

Codey by VSHN

A dedicated Forgejo instance managed by VSHN, hosted in Europe and Switzerland.

Forgejo Services

Managed Forgejo hosting, support, consulting, training, and ISO27001 reporting tooling from a Coderial BV project.

Elestio

Managed Gitea on dedicated cloud instances, from a broad managed open-source app platform.

Gitea Cloud

A commercial Gitea Cloud offering with public pricing.

Decision Boundaries

Capabilities Table

This table is conservative. If a public source did not document a capability, the cell says so instead of filling the gap from assumption.

DimensionFjordCodebahnCodeyForgejo ServicesElestioCodebergGitea CloudGitHubGitLab
Managed ForgejoYesYesYesYesNo, GiteaDifferent use caseNo, GiteaNoNo
TenancyDedicatedNot documentedDedicatedNot documentedDedicatedShared public platformNot documentedDepends on planDepends on product
Forgejo baseUpstream ForgejoMaintained forkNot documentedNot documentedNo, GiteaForgejo-basedNo, GiteaNoNo
Hosted CIYesYesYesActions consultingNot documentedLimited / customer-operatedNot documentedYesYes
PagesYesNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedYesNot documentedYesYes
Native mobile appYesNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedYesNot documented
CLIYesYesNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedYesNot documented
Public MCP serverNot documentedYesNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documented
Region / jurisdiction postureEU, US, Singapore; US-operatedEU-only; SwedenEurope / SwitzerlandCoderial BV; NL and FR addressesWorldwide; IrelandBerlin non-profitNot documentedEnterprise regions by planDedicated available
Pricing modelPer-instanceCapacitySize / storageNot documentedInstanceFree public platformPublic pricingPer-user / accountPer-user
Managed backupsBy planYesYesYesYesNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documented
No-AI-training commitmentYesNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedNot documented
Published compliance certificationsNoNoYesNo published certNot documentedNot documentedNot documentedYesYes

Go Deeper

Check the architecture notes, data residency page, no-AI-training terms, and pricing before you choose.