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.
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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.
| Dimension | Fjord | Codebahn | Codey | Forgejo Services | Elestio | Codeberg | Gitea Cloud | GitHub | GitLab |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed Forgejo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No, Gitea | Different use case | No, Gitea | No | No |
| Tenancy | Dedicated | Not documented | Dedicated | Not documented | Dedicated | Shared public platform | Not documented | Depends on plan | Depends on product |
| Forgejo base | Upstream Forgejo | Maintained fork | Not documented | Not documented | No, Gitea | Forgejo-based | No, Gitea | No | No |
| Hosted CI | Yes | Yes | Yes | Actions consulting | Not documented | Limited / customer-operated | Not documented | Yes | Yes |
| Pages | Yes | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Yes | Not documented | Yes | Yes |
| Native mobile app | Yes | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Yes | Not documented |
| CLI | Yes | Yes | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Yes | Not documented |
| Public MCP server | Not documented | Yes | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| Region / jurisdiction posture | EU, US, Singapore; US-operated | EU-only; Sweden | Europe / Switzerland | Coderial BV; NL and FR addresses | Worldwide; Ireland | Berlin non-profit | Not documented | Enterprise regions by plan | Dedicated available |
| Pricing model | Per-instance | Capacity | Size / storage | Not documented | Instance | Free public platform | Public pricing | Per-user / account | Per-user |
| Managed backups | By plan | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| No-AI-training commitment | Yes | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| Published compliance certifications | No | No | Yes | No published cert | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Yes | Yes |
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Check the architecture notes, data residency page, no-AI-training terms, and pricing before you choose.