Gitly
A lightweight, open-source Git forge
Source code hosting Project management CI & CD
What Gitly includes
- Light and fast
- Minimal amount of RAM usage (works great on the cheapest $3.5 AWS Lightsail instance)
- Simple, self-contained deployment
- Works without JavaScript
- Detailed language stats for each directory
- "Top files" feature to give an overview of the project
- Very fast CI with pre-cached dependencies
- Submitting a pull request without forking the repository
Compare Gitly
Data checked against official documentation in September 2026.
| GitHub | GitLab | Gitly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open-source self-hosted edition | No [1] | Yes (CE / open core) [2] | Yes |
| All features are open source | No | No (EE) [2] | Yes |
| Self-hosted minimum RAM | 32 GB / 4 vCPU [3] | 8 GB minimum 16 GB / 8 vCPU baseline [4] |
128 MB |
| Self-hosted storage floor / installation | 400 GB + 500 GB = 900 GB [3] | ~2.5 GB package ≥40 GB app + DB/repos [4] |
~18 MB binary + data |
| Works with JavaScript disabled | Partially [5] | No [4] | Yes |
| Repository language statistics | Yes [6] | Yes [7] | Yes |
| CI features | |||
| Default hosted Linux runner | Private repository: 2 vCPU / 8 GB Public repository: 4 vCPU / 16 GB [8] |
2 vCPU / 8 GB / 30 GB [9] | Runner-dependent |
| FreeBSD | No [10] | Yes (Self-managed) [11] | Yes |
| macOS | Yes (Hosted) [8] | Yes (Self-managed; hosted beta) [12] | Yes |
| Built-in dependency caching | Yes [13] | Yes [14] | Yes |
| Fresh isolated environment for hosted jobs | Yes [8] | Yes [9] | Yes |
| Interactive SSH/shell into hosted CI machine | No built-in session | Self-managed [15] | Yes |
| Automatically run on commit / PR / MR | Yes [16] | Yes [17] | Yes |
| Guaranteed "instant" CI start | No | No | No |
| Cancel one workflow / pipeline manually | Yes [18] | Yes [19] | Yes |
| One-click cancel entire CI for a commit / PR / MR | No — per workflow run [18] | Yes — whole pipeline [19] | Yes |
| Automatically cancel obsolete CI on new commit | Partially — requires configuration [20] | Yes [21] | Yes |
| CI log retention | 90 days by default [22] | Indefinite by default [23] | 6 months |
| Free-plan hosted CI quota | 2,000 min/month (Private repository) Public repositories are free [24] |
400 min/month [25] | 43,200 min/month |
| Entry paid team plan | $4/user/month 3,000 min/month [24] |
$29/user/month (billed annually) 10,000 min/month [25] |
$5/user/month 43,200 min/month |
Check out Gitly in action by browsing the V language repo: gitly.org/vlang/v
