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Gitea vs SourceHut

Gitea scores higher on the AgentReady, 51/100 against 29/100. They differ on 9 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Gitea. A self-hosted DevOps platform and all-in-one software development service that includes Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry, and CI/CD.

SourceHut. the hacker's forge

Where Gitea is ahead

Gitea passes clear product positioning, public docs discoverable and mcp discoverable, and SourceHut does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds understand: pricing understandable. SourceHut misses it.

And on adopt, self-service signup, free trial or free allowance and mcp integration available. SourceHut misses those.

Finally, on operate, agent compatibility verified. SourceHut misses it.

Where SourceHut is ahead

SourceHut passes structured, predictable output, and Gitea does not. That is operate, whether an agent can run against it in production and recover when a call fails.

What neither does

Both fail search discoverable, clear canonical domain, llms.txt published, llms-full.txt / full agent docs, machine-readable metadata, structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented, no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover is whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists. Gitea leads 60 to 20. Gitea misses search discoverable, clear canonical domain, llms.txt published, llms-full.txt / full agent docs, machine-readable metadata; SourceHut misses search discoverable, clear canonical domain, clear product positioning, public docs discoverable, llms.txt published, llms-full.txt / full agent docs, mcp discoverable, machine-readable metadata.

Understand. Gitea leads 31 to 23. Gitea misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; SourceHut misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt. Gitea leads 60 to 25. Gitea misses no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart; SourceHut misses self-service signup, no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart, mcp integration available.

Operate. Gitea leads 53 to 47. Gitea misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable; SourceHut misses machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified.

Pricing

Gitea starts at $9.5/user/month and has a free tier. SourceHut does not publish one.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

Gitea clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Gitea and SourceHut. Alternatives to each: Gitea, SourceHut.

An agent can fetch this as data: POST /v1/compare {"slugs": ["gitea", "sr"]}