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Replace Bitbucket with Gitea / GitLab CE.

Self-hosted Git platforms. Gitea is lightweight and fast, GitLab CE adds CI/CD pipelines, issue boards, and container registry. Full code hosting without per-user fees.

You'd keep~R7 222 to ~R14 345/year

Current licence  ·  Dev Tools

Bitbucket

~R7 222 – ~R14 345/yr

10-user estimate

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Gitea / GitLab CE

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R14 345/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Bitbucket's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Standard

R7 200/yr

R60/user/month

With Gitea / GitLab CE

Keep R7 200/yr

Premium

R14 400/yr

R120/user/month

With Gitea / GitLab CE

Keep R14 400/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Bitbucket grows around 10% per year on average. Gitea / GitLab CE hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR6kR12kR19kR25kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R23kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.04M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Bitbucket → Gitea / GitLab CE, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.