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How Fettlecode compares

Fettlecode next to the Git hosts teams use most, and the tools people add for stacked review or editing together. It's in development and not released, so we've been careful to claim only what works today, and to mark what's planned.

Where Fettlecode is strong

Stacked review, self-hosted. With plain Git and no extra tool, and it works across forks.
Review that remembers. Approvals and “reviewed” marks survive a clean rebase, and you see only what changed since you last looked.
Nothing held back. SAML, SCIM, the audit log, code owners and the merge queue aren't kept for a top tier.

Where it isn't there yet

It isn't released. The source code and Docker image aren't public yet.
No CI yet, and live co-editing is still to come. Both are planned.
A young project. There's no marketplace of integrations, and nothing like GitHub's community or scale.

Feature by feature

Each cell links to the page it came from. “Not stated” means the pages we checked don't say, not that it's missing. Prices are list prices in US dollars, per person a month, as each vendor showed them.

Yes
Partial
Capped
Paid plan
No
In development
Planned
Not stated

Fettlecode compared with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Gitea, Forgejo, Gerrit and Graphite, checked 23 October 2026
Feature	FettlecodeSelf-hosted, source-available	GitHubHosted	GitLabHosted or self-managed	BitbucketHosted	GiteaSelf-hosted, MIT	ForgejoSelf-hosted, free software	GerritSelf-hosted, Apache 2.0	GraphiteOn top of GitHub
Hosting, licence and price
Run it on your own server	In developmentBuilt for it; not released yet1	PartialEnterprise Server only: a closed VM image, where features usually arrive after GitHub.com2	YesFree self-managed edition3	Paid planData Center is contact-sales, and Atlassian says it is “making changes to our Data Center products”4	YesA single binary, with no user or repo limits5	Yes6	Yes7	NoNo self-hosting on its pricing page8
Open-source licence	NoSource-available: free for personal use and up to 10 users; larger organisations need a commercial licence9	NoProprietary10	PartialOpen core3	NoProprietary4	PartialMIT, open core5	YesFree licences only, governed by the non-profit Codeberg e.V.6	YesApache 2.07	NoProprietary8
Price	Free for every organisation for now; later, free for personal use and up to 10 users, with a discounted commercial licence for larger organisations11	Team US$4 per person a month; Enterprise from US$2110	Free edition; Premium US$29 per person a month, billed yearly3	Standard US$3.65, Premium US$8; Free stops at 5 users4	Free self-hosted; Enterprise US$9.50 to US$19 per person a month, for a year5	Free; Codeberg hosts free/libre projects at no cost12	Open source; no paid tier on its site7	Free plan; Team US$40 per person a month8
Review
Stacked review	YesPush commits to refs/for/<branch>; works across forks13	PartialPublic preview since 30 Jul 2026; stacks can’t cross forks14 15	PartialAn experiment, through the glab command-line tool16	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	YesDependent changes form stacks; a Change-Id follows each commit17	YesA stacking CLI on every plan; GitHub only8 18
Approval rules and code owners	YesBranch rules, completion rules and CODEOWNERS, free19	Paid planOn private repos, needs Team10	Paid planPremium20 21	Paid planEnforced merge checks are Premium only4	Not stated	Not stated	YesCustom labels and submit rules7	Not stated
Merge queue	Yes“Merge when ready”; testing the combined result waits for CI19	YesStacks are merge-queue aware14	Paid planMerge trains need Premium22	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Paid planNeeds Team8
Sign-in and control
Single sign-on without a paid tier	YesSAML, OIDC, LDAP and SCIM, all free23	Paid planSAML is Enterprise only10	YesSAML is in Free, for self-managed24	Not stated	Paid planSAML is Enterprise only5	PartialOIDC and LDAP; no SAML found (its sign-in docs couldn’t be opened)6	Not stated	Paid planSAML is Enterprise only8
Audit log	YesFor each organisation, repo and the whole instance23	Paid planEnterprise only10	Not stated	Not stated	Paid planEnterprise only5	Not stated	Not stated	Paid planEnterprise only8
Building and editing
Built-in CI	PlannedCommit statuses and a runner protocol, with results reused across rebases25	YesActions, with 2,000 free minutes a month10	Yes3	CappedPipelines; Free has 50 build minutes4	YesActions5	YesActions6	NoIntegrates Jenkins, Zuul and others7	No8
Live co-editing	PlannedEdit a change together in the browser, then push one revision with co-authors25	NoCodespaces is separate, billed by the hour26	No3	No4	No5	No6	No7	No8
AI	PlannedBring your own model, off by default25	Paid planCopilot is sold separately10	Paid planDuo runs on paid credits3	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	Not stated	YesAI review and chat8
Accessibility	Being built to WCAG 2.2 AA; a screen-reader audit is planned before 1.025	Not stated on the pages checked	Aims for WCAG 2.2 AA, with axe tests that block merges27	Not stated on the pages checked	Not stated on the pages checked	Accessibility checks in its browser tests6	Not stated on the pages checked	Not stated on the pages checked

Review tools and editors

These do one part of the job: review on top of another host, or editing together. They don't fit the chart above, so here's what each does well and where it falls short.

Tool	What it does well	Where it falls short
Reviewable	Tracks who reviewed which revision of each file, shows what changed since your last look even after a rebase, and records where each person stands on each discussion.	“Works only with GitHub and GitHub Enterprise.” No self-hosted option described.28
ReviewStack	A GitHub pull request viewer from Meta’s Sapling, with a stack menu so each commit is approved on its own.	Meta’s own page says it isn’t as full-featured or battle-tested as GitHub’s, especially for large pull requests.29
Sourcehut	All free software, with a flat €4 to €12 a month for every feature.	Still “public alpha”. Builds need payment, and review runs through mailing lists rather than a web page.30
Radicle	Peer-to-peer and offline; issues and patches are signed objects.	Says it “doesn’t have advanced code review features yet”, and that private repos are “unfit for use today”.31
Phorge	A community fork of Phabricator: review, repo hosting, bugs and chat, under Apache 2.0.	A small community project. Its own site couldn’t be opened, so its docs weren’t checked.32
VS Code Live Share	Edit and debug together, each in your own editor, with shared terminals.	In maintenance mode, with no new features planned. Runs through Microsoft’s service.33 34
Zed	A fast editor under GPL-3.0, with shared editing on every plan, including free.	Sharing gives guests your local files. No working screen-reader support yet.35 36 37
Replit	A browser editor with an agent; nothing to install.	Pro is US$100 a month for up to 15 collaborators; single sign-on and audit logs are Enterprise only. No self-hosting listed.38
GitHub Codespaces	One click from a repo to a ready-made dev container.	US$0.18 to US$2.88 an hour, plus storage. Organisations get no free quota.26
Ona (formerly Gitpod)	Cloud environments and background AI agents, in its cloud or yours.	No public prices. Gitpod Classic pay-as-you-go closed on 15 October 2025; self-hosting is Enterprise only.39 40
Coder	Self-hosted dev workspaces under AGPL-3.0, defined in Terraform.	Multi-organisation roles, OIDC sync and audit logging are in Premium, with no public price.41 42

Notes

Fettlecode's column describes it as of 27 October 2026, from its own README and build plan. “Planned” means it isn't built yet.
GitHub has stacked pull requests in public preview since 30 July 2026, and Enterprise Server is the only way to run it yourself.
Some vendor pages couldn't be opened, including Forgejo's sign-in docs and Phorge's own site. Where we couldn't confirm something, the cell says so rather than guessing in our favour.
Paying for Fettlecode: it will be free on your own server. Hosting and support are planned for after 1.0; see pricing.
Something out of date? Features and prices change often. Tell us and we'll fix it.

Sources

Other products’ pages all checked on 23 October 2026.