When not to use Codebahn

We would rather tell you up front than have you find out after signing up.

Your project is open source

Every repo on Codebahn is private: no public view, no anonymous clone. Open source needs a public home, and this is not one. Forgejo is free software, so self-hosting is a real option, and there are non-profit public forges that do this job well. Codebahn is for private and commercial work.

Your procurement requires SOC 2 Type II today

Codebahn does not have it yet. GitLab Dedicated EU has the signed audit reports. If your procurement gates on those, use them. We will get there; we are not there now. If what procurement needs is written commitments rather than an audit report, Assurance publishes them: a security and exit addendum and a DORA register.

You depend on a deep marketplace

Codebahn keeps a small, curated integration surface: webhooks, Slack, Discord, Element, Mattermost. If your workflows depend on hundreds of GitHub Marketplace actions or a specific third-party integration, you will miss them here. Stay where you are.

You need Windows or macOS hosted runners

Codebahn runs Linux VMs on EU infrastructure. There are no Windows or macOS hosted runners. You can bring your own alongside the hosted runners using host execution mode, but there are no official forgejo-runner binaries for those platforms (community builds and building from source are options), and host mode offers no container isolation. If you need managed non-Linux CI, we're not your vendor.

Your budget is zero

Codebahn has no free tier. If you want Git hosting at no cost, self-host Forgejo on Hetzner. A CX23 is a few euros a month, and the Forgejo installation guide walks you through it. See what you gain and lose compared to managed hosting. Your weekends, your call.

What switching costs

Codebahn imports repositories with full history, issues, and pull requests from GitHub, GitLab, and self-hosted Forgejo. Most Actions workflows work with minimal changes. We document the differences so you can plan before you move. If anything needs manual attention during import, email us and we help.

When Codebahn is the right call

You ship private or commercial code and you care where it lives. Three things you can check before deciding, none of which need a sign-up:

• Look around the demo: the product as a read-only visitor.
• The sub-processor list: every company that touches your data, each one EU-incorporated.
• The continuity page: the export round trip is tested, and what is still in progress is dated.

See how Codebahn compares to GitHub, GitLab, or self-hosting Forgejo. Or go straight to pricing.