Every category where a model named Gitea for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Source control hosting	Developer platform	2%	4 of 23	16%	25	accepted challenger
CI/CD platforms	Developer platform	0%	20 of 45	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by GitHub Actions at 65%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Gitea yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Gitea across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	1	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	0	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	1	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	1	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	1	1	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	1	0	3

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative17 labelsNone

Budget-constrained20 labels2

Scale-constrained9 labelsNone

Negative22 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative73 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 3 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Gitea (or Forgejo) is the go-to if you want to self-host and keep costs to a bare minimum” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Source control · budget prompt · first choice

“For mid-sized teams (5-50 people) that are cost-focused, self-hosting Gitea (or Forgejo) on a VPS ... is the most cost-effective choice.” Llama 4 Maverick · Source control · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“If you have some infrastructure and prefer self-hosting, Gitea or Forgejo are incredibly lightweight and cost-effective.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Source control · budget prompt · alternative

“Gitea is a lightweight self-hosted Git service with a GitHub-like interface that runs on minimal hardware.” Llama 4 Maverick · Source control · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Platforms like Gitea, Forgejo, and self-hosted GitLab are excellent. However, they shift the security burden onto *you*.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Source control · negative prompt · soft negative

“Who should be cautious: Small teams or startups that lack dedicated DevOps or System Administrator resources” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Source control · negative prompt · soft negative

“Avoid unless experienced (higher risk than pro cloud for most)... Use Forgejo/Gitea for lightweight.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Source control · negative prompt · soft negative

“Use with Caution (Self-Hosted): GitLab, Gitea, Forgejo (requires constant vigilance)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Source control · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Gitea, over the 73 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Gitea was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

GitHub70 of 7339Not in the top three

GitLab68 of 7311Not in the top three

Bitbucket67 of 730Not in the top three

Forgejo36 of 730Not in the top three

Azure DevOps28 of 731Not in the top three

AWS CodeCommit19 of 730Not in the top three

Codeberg18 of 732Not in the top three

SourceForge18 of 730Not in the top three

SourceHut12 of 731Not in the top three

Azure Repos12 of 730Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Gitea. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 50 of the 73 answers that named Gitea and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

note.com22

us.fitgap.com19

guideflow.com17

mgsoftware.nl16

gitprotect.io15

reddit.com15

worldmetrics.org13

g2.com12

toolradar.com12

rewind.com11

152 of the 152 domain citations in answers naming Gitea came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

note.com/snake_dragon/n/n87068052df3a22

guideflow.com/blog/version-control-software17

mgsoftware.nl/en/tools/best-version-control-systems16

us.fitgap.com/search/version-control-hosting-software/small-business15

worldmetrics.org/best/source-code-control-software11

gitprotect.io/blog/top-git-hosting-services10

slant.co/topics/153/~best-hosted-version-control-services10

bmc.com/blogs/github-vs-gitlab-vs-bitbucket9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Gitea

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Gitea; a claim can dispute any of them.

Forgejo/Gitea 1Gitea + Drone CI 1Gitea and Forgejo 1

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at gitea.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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