Bitbucket is Atlassian's Git hosting service, sold as Bitbucket Cloud and self-managed Bitbucket Data Center; these pages cover moving source hosting to self-hosted GitLab, Gitea or Forgejo.
Compares Bitbucket Cloud or Data Center with self-managed GitLab, which also replaces Pipelines and adds issues and registries: GitLab's documented Bitbucket Cloud and Bitbucket Server importers, Jira integration, GitLab tier choices, and running GitLab yourself against Atlassian's hybrid licensing.
Compares Bitbucket with Gitea, a single-binary MIT-licensed forge for teams that want lightweight self-hosting: pull requests, Actions CI and package registries, the absence of a Bitbucket importer in Gitea's migration code, and commercial support from CommitGo.
Compares Bitbucket with Forgejo, the GPL-licensed community forge with LTS releases and non-profit governance: what replaces Bitbucket pull requests and Pipelines, moving repositories by Git mirror since Forgejo's dump-repo does not list Bitbucket, and support options.
Cost by component: Bitbucket Cloud seats, build minutes and runner slot fees, or a Bitbucket Data Center or Hybrid License renewal, against servers, storage, backups, upgrades, support and staff time for GitLab, Gitea or Forgejo.
Moving Bitbucket Cloud or Data Center repositories to self-hosted Gitea: mirroring Git history and LFS objects, why pull requests and comments need a separate plan because Gitea has no Bitbucket importer, re-creating branch permissions and replacing Pipelines and Jira links.
What leaves Bitbucket and how: cloning repositories with LFS, pull request and comment history through the API within rate limits, Pipelines variables that cannot be read back, wiki and issue data, and a checklist to run before a Cloud or Data Center contract ends.
Bitbucket Cloud is not among the Atlassian products with data residency, so EU teams that need code stored in-region choose between Bitbucket Data Center and self-hosted GitLab, Gitea or Forgejo in their own datacenter. This page covers that decision and its GDPR angle.
Atlassian stopped selling new Data Center subscriptions on March 30, 2026 and offers existing Bitbucket Data Center customers a Hybrid License. This page weighs renewing, moving to Bitbucket Cloud or replacing Data Center with self-hosted GitLab, Gitea or Forgejo.
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