Replaces Bitbucket

European alternatives to Bitbucket

Git hosting and CI from European providers

Browse the category: Version control services

Bitbucket is the Git hosting service from Atlassian, the Australian company behind Jira and Confluence. It offers private and public repositories, pull requests with branch permissions, and Pipelines for continuous integration, and it links tightly to Jira issues so commits and branches show up next to the tickets they belong to. That integration is the main reason teams on the Atlassian stack end up there.

Source code is the asset a software company can least afford to place casually, and the same repositories usually carry deployment secrets and customer specific configuration. Moving to a European alternative to Bitbucket keeps the repositories, the build runners and the contract inside the EU or EFTA. GitLab offers an integrated platform with CI built in, GitLab by Stackhero provides it as a managed European instance, and Codeberg, Forgejo and Gitea are lighter options for hosted or self-run Git.

European options

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service	Country	Hosting	Open source	Free plan	Status
GitLab	Open source	Self-hosted	✓	—
Forgejo	Open source	Self-hosted	✓	—
Codeberg	Germany	Self-hosted	✓	—	EU controlled
Gitea	Open source	Self-hosted	✓	—

Self-hosted and open source

Open source projects you can run yourself. Not necessarily made in Europe, but nobody else holds your data.

GitLab

Open core, self-hosted version control

Open sourceOpen source

Forgejo

Open source, self-hosted Git forge

Open sourceOpen source

Codeberg

Git hosting for open source from Germany

GermanyEU hostedEU controlled

Gitea

Open source, self-hosted Git service

Open sourceOpen source

Services without verified European control

Kept here for transparency, but excluded from the European options and totals. How we classify services →

GitLab by Stackhero

Managed GitLab hosting from France

FranceEU hosted♻ Ownership reviewed, controller unresolved

Questions

How do I move repositories off Bitbucket?

Git repositories are portable: you add the new remote and push all branches and tags. Issues and pull requests need a separate step, and GitLab, Gitea and Forgejo each ship importers for that metadata.

Which European alternative is closest to Bitbucket?

GitLab is the nearest match, since it combines repositories, merge requests and built-in CI in one product. GitLab by Stackhero is the same software offered as a managed instance if you would rather not run it.

Is there a free European option for hosting Git?

Codeberg hosts projects for the open source community, and Forgejo and Gitea are freely licensed if you run them yourself. Read Codeberg's own conditions to see whether your project fits what they host.