码云 (Gitee)
Platform · this deep dive is built from the official pages of the platform itself and of the tools that support it.
Overview
Gitee (码云) is a Chinese Git repository host with a layer of corporate tools on top: project management, build pipelines, code scanning, test management, performance metrics. The operator is the company named in the terms as 北京奥思研工; disputes, according to those same terms, are heard by PRC courts at the operator's location in Beijing.
By its own description in the home page markup, the platform positions itself as a single-stage development management solution for enterprises. The layout of the site shows the same thing: a free "community" side for personal repositories sits next to a paid enterprise edition, and almost the whole help centre is about the enterprise edition.
Two things matter if you plan to work with an audience here. First, Gitee is a Chinese platform with Chinese law and Chinese moderation; the home page interface, per our check of the markup, is in zh-CN. Second, the rules explicitly ban inflating project metrics — more on that below.
Who's here
The home page displays counters for developers, hosted repositories and enterprises, but the numeric part of those counters is inserted by a script: all that remains in the markup are labels of the form «开发者 … 万+», «托管仓库数 … 万+», «企业/组织数 … 万+» — that is, "tens of thousands+" without the number itself.
Right in the home page markup, script-free, the platform claims daily figures for itself: «5000+ 位新用户注册» (more than 5,000 new users), «20000+ 个仓库创建» (more than 20,000 repositories created), «2亿+ 次代码推拉» (more than 200 million push/pull operations), «10000+ 人 PR 合并成功». These are the platform's own claims in a marketing block, with no measurement period and no date given; they can't be compared with anyone else's metrics.
Gitee publishes no breakdown by country or language. Judging by the language of the interface, the help centre and the terms, the audience is predominantly Chinese-speaking.
Getting started
Registration is an ordinary account. A repository is created, per the help centre, via the "+" sign in the top right corner and the «新建仓库» item; the form asks for a name and path, an owner (personal account, organization or enterprise), visibility (public or private), the main language, a licence,.gitignore, README and templates for issues and merge requests.
An organization is a free collective entity. The help centre describes it this way: «组织» is a set of people and repositories; the organization owner has the highest privileges and can create several teams (roles). An important detail about permissions: an organization member does not get access to a repository automatically — they first have to be added as a repository member. The same page notes that an organization can create repositories but cannot configure SSH keys or work with repositories on the organization's behalf.
The enterprise edition is what replaces a business account here. The rates on the official page: free — ¥0, up to 5 people, 5 GB of total repository volume, 0.5 GB per repository, up to 10 projects; 标准版 (standard) — ¥299 per person per year, from 5 seats, 20 GB of total volume, 1 GB per repository, 8 concurrent push/pull operations; 尊享版 (premium) — ¥499 per person per year, from 5 seats, 30 GB, 3 GB per repository, 16 concurrent operations, 3 repository replicas; private deployment — on request. The help centre confirms the same prices and the condition «5 人起购，按需购买» — purchase starts at 5 seats.
What you can publish
The help centre states the quotas of the free "community" edition as follows: up to 1,000 repositories with no limit on public versus private; the cap on a single repository is 500 MB and on a single file 50 MB; a user's total repository volume is 5 GB; an attachment can be up to 100 MB, and the total attachment volume of one repository is 1 GB; in public repositories the number of members is unlimited, while the combined number of collaborators across all private repositories of a personal account is 5 people. A separate quota page adds the limit for SVN: Git — 500 MB per repository, SVN — 400 MB.
Note the discrepancy inside the official sources: the terms of use give different figures — «每个仓库的大小上限为1个G，单个用户总容量为5个G» (the cap on a single repository is 1 GB, a user's total volume is 5 GB), whereas the help centre says 500 MB per repository. Both pages are official, and this inconsistency has to be factored into your planning.
The terms place responsibility for content on the author: copyright in what you upload belongs to the uploader, and the operator reserves the right to decide on its own and immediately terminate your use of the site.
How to grow
Inflating metrics is banned in so many words
This is a rare case of a platform naming metric manipulation in the terms of use themselves. The wording: «明确禁止一切以不正当手段操纵项目 Star、Fork 等数据的行为» — any action that manipulates project data (stars, forks and the like) by improper means is expressly prohibited, including technical tricks, benefit-sharing schemes and exploiting gaps in the rules.
In practice this means: star swaps, buying forks, mutual follows and "boosting" a project with scripts are a breach of the terms, not a promotion technique. The sanction for breaching the terms is left to the operator's discretion and can be immediate.
What's left
No internal paid project-promotion tools and no ad manager for external advertising are documented on Gitee's official pages. There is a project selection programme, GVP («最有价值开源项目» — the most valuable open source projects), whose block appears on the home page, but the platform publishes no selection criteria on its open pages.
The only documented visibility lever for a company is the enterprise edition and converting an internal repository to a public one. The enterprise help centre describes the path: enterprise workspace → 代码 → 管理 → 功能设置 → the dangerous operations «可见性» → save, and only a member with the right to manage repository publication can do it, a right granted through role and permission settings.
No built-in public author statistics are documented in the help centre; the analytics on offer are «效能度量» — development performance metrics, which is about the team, not about reach. A separate option for the repository owner is connecting an external counter: the help centre has a section on «百度统计设置» — configuring Baidu analytics.
Path to monetization
Gitee does not pay authors. No revenue sharing, donations or per-repository subscriptions are documented on the official pages.
The money flows the other way: the user pays — ¥299 or ¥499 per person per year, a minimum of 5 seats. Extra volume and features are also paid for and are bought in blocks of 5 seats on the same rate scale.
There is an indirect, reputational route: an open project on Gitee works as a technical shop window for the Chinese market. But turning it into an advertising channel is risky: the terms give the operator the right to terminate access at its own decision without prior notice.
Tools and automation
The official interface is Gitee OpenAPI version 5. The developer page collects links to the API documentation, the OAuth documentation and the authorisation procedure; OAuth is stated as a supported authentication method. No numeric rate limits are given on that page.
A useful built-in option for anyone keeping a project on two platforms at once is mirroring. The help centre has a section on «仓库镜像管理（Gitee<->Github 双向同步）» — mirror management with two-way sync between Gitee and GitHub. This is a legitimate way to run the same open project in two ecosystems without duplicating everything by hand.
Other items from the repository settings section: storage garbage collection (存储库 GC), repository state, repository transfer and deletion. Build pipelines (流水线管理) and artifact management are part of the enterprise edition according to the help centre table of contents.
Third-party SMM tools don't apply to Gitee: apart from code and issues, there is nothing to publish here.
Limits and rules
- Personal account. Up to 1,000 repositories; 500 MB per Git repository and 400 MB for SVN; 50 MB per file; 5 GB in total; 5 collaborators across all private repositories; attachments up to 100 MB and 1 GB of attachments per repository.
- Inconsistency. The terms state 1 GB per repository against 500 MB in the help centre.
- Enterprise edition. ¥0 / ¥299 / ¥499 per person per year, from 5 seats; 5 / 20 / 30 GB of total volume; 0.5 / 1 / 3 GB per repository; 8 and 16 concurrent push/pull operations.
- Project metrics. Any improper manipulation of stars, forks and other data is prohibited.
- Law. Jurisdiction of PRC courts at the operator's location in Beijing; the operator may immediately terminate use of the site.
- Organizations. An organization member does not get repository permissions automatically; an organization cannot configure SSH keys.
Who it's for
A fit for projects whose audience is Chinese developers and Chinese companies: local access speed, local interface, local integrations. A fit as a mirror of your main repository through built-in two-way sync with GitHub.
A fit for small teams for whom the free enterprise edition with 5 people and 10 projects is enough.
Not a fit as a promotion channel in the usual sense: no ad manager is documented, there is no feed and no recommendations, and trying to lift your visibility artificially is expressly prohibited by the terms. Not a fit for large repositories: 500 MB per repository is a hard ceiling by the standards of the category. Not a fit for projects that need predictable moderation: the right to terminate access is written into the terms as the operator's decision.
Verified data
The checked data this deep dive rests on.
About the platform
the platform describes itself this way: «面向企业提供一站式研发管理解决方案，包括代码管理、项目管理、文档协作、测试管理、CICD、效能度量等多个模块，支持SaaS、私有化等多种部署方式，帮助企业有序规划和管理研发过程，提升研发效率和质量。»
Self-description: this is the platform's claim about itself, not an independent assessment
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Who's here
the platform claims daily figures for itself: «5000+ 位新用户注册», «20000+ 个仓库创建», «2亿+ 次代码推拉», «10000+ 人 PR 合并成功»
A marketing block with no measurement period and no date
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Getting started
neither an application, nor approval, nor a check is required to publish: the help centre describes creating a repository as an action taken straight after registration — «在注册完成并成功登录 Gitee 账号后，用户可以开始创建自己的第一个仓库» (our translation: after completing registration and successfully signing in to a Gitee account, a user may begin creating their first repository), after which a form is filled in and «创建» («create») is pressed
our translation, the original is in Chinese. There is no moderation, no review queue and no invitation in the description of the steps. A threshold of zero: an open repository is created on the same day as the account
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a repository is created via the «+» sign in the top right corner and the «新建仓库» item; the form asks for a name and path, the owner (personal account, organization or enterprise), visibility, the main language, a licence, .gitignore, README and templates for issues and merge requests
The help centre makes no mention of a review (审核) of the repository being published
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the address gitee.com/pricing returns not a pricing page but a user profile named pricing; the rates are at gitee.com/enterprises/price
A trap when looking for the rates
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Account and access
minors need a guardian's consent: «若您是18周岁以下的未成年人，在使用本网站的服务前，应确保事先取得监护人的同意，如您在本网站上申请注册账号，本网站将默认为您已得到前述同意» (our translation: if you are a minor under 18 full years of age, before using the site's services you must ensure that you have obtained your guardian's consent in advance; if you apply to register an account on this site, the site will assume by default that you have obtained such consent)
our translation, the original is in Chinese; the section «个人信息保护政策» («Personal Information Protection Policy»), the subsection «对未成年人个人信息的特别保护». The platform sets no ban on children registering — it sets a condition of guardian's consent
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Business terms
«组织» is a set of people and repositories; the owner has the highest privileges and can create several teams (roles); an organization member does not get repository permissions automatically - they have to be added as a repository member; an organization cannot configure SSH keys
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making an enterprise repository public: workspace → 代码 → 管理 → 功能设置 → the dangerous operations «可见性» → save; only a member with the right to manage repository publication can do it
Rights are granted through role and permission settings
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Analytics
the only analytics for a repository owner documented in the help centre is configuring an external counter: «百度统计设置»; no built-in public reach statistics are documented on the pages we checked
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How the money works here
the platform does not pay authors: neither revenue sharing, nor donations, nor any reward for content is described in any of the documents that were read; in the terms money moves in one direction only, from the user to the platform: «服务费用将在您订购页面予以列明公示，您可自行选择具体服务类型并按列明的价格予以支付» (our translation: the cost of services is set out on your order page; you choose the type of service yourself and pay at the price stated)
our translation, the original is in Chinese. Read in full: «网站使用条款», «个人信息保护政策», «Gitee 企业版服务条款», «Gitee 高校版服务条款», the corporate pricing page and the help section on quotas. Gitee is code hosting, not a platform for earning: there is no mechanism for paying an author in these documents
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Pricing
enterprise rates: free - ¥0, up to 5 people, 5 GB of total volume, 0.5 GB per repository, up to 10 projects; 标准版 - ¥299 per person per year, 20 GB, 1 GB per repository, 8 concurrent push/pull operations; 尊享版 - ¥499 per person per year, 30 GB, 3 GB per repository, 16 concurrent operations, 3 replicas; private deployment - on request
Purchase starts at 5 seats
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paid enterprise rates are sold from 5 seats: «5 人起购，按需购买»; the prices of ¥299 and ¥499 per person per year are confirmed by the help centre
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DISCREPANCY: the quota page gives enterprise rates a series of repository volumes of 500 MB / 1 GB / 2 GB / 3 GB across four levels, while the pricing page describes three paid levels and names 3 GB for 尊享版 - the composition of the plans is described differently on the two official pages
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Sources diverge: A DISCREPANCY about what a person gets for nothing: the site's terms of use name a per-repository limit of 1 GB — «规定每个仓库的大小上限为1个G，单个用户总容量为5个G» (our translation: the size limit of each repository is set at 1 GB, and the total capacity of a single user at 5 GB) — while the help centre's quota page says 500 MB: «Git 单仓库容量上限为 500M» (our translation: the capacity limit of a single Git repository is 500 MB). The overall 5 GB matches
our translation, the original is in Chinese. The second source is https://help.gitee.com/questions/Gitee%E4%BA%A7%E5%93%81%E9%85%8D%E9%A2%9D%E8%AF%B4%E6%98%8E. Which of the two applies the platform nowhere explains; neither page carries a date
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Limits and restrictions
personal account quotas: up to 1000 repositories; 500 MB per Git repository; 50 MB per file; 5 GB in total; attachments up to 100 MB and 1 GB of attachments per repository; in public repositories the number of members is unlimited, across all private repositories 5 collaborators in total
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the cap on a single SVN repository is 400 MB, Git - 500 MB, a single file - 50 MB
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DISCREPANCY between official sources: the terms of use state «每个仓库的大小上限为1个G，单个用户总容量为5个G» (1 GB per repository), the help centre - 500 MB per repository with the same total volume of 5 GB
Both pages are official; there is no way to pick the correct number, and the difference has to be factored into planning
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Restrictions
the terms expressly prohibit metric manipulation: «明确禁止一切以不正当手段操纵项目 Star、Fork 等数据的行为» - any action manipulating a project's stars, forks and other data by improper means, including technical tricks, benefit-sharing schemes and exploiting gaps in the rules
A rare case where metric inflation is named in the terms themselves
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Legal
the operator is named in the terms as 北京奥思研工; disputes are heard by PRC courts at the operator's location in Beijing; the operator may decide on its own and immediately terminate use of the site
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API access
the official interface is Gitee OpenAPI version 5; the developer page collects links to the API documentation, the OAuth documentation and the authorisation procedure; OAuth is stated as a supported authentication method
There are no numeric rate limits on the page; the interactive Swagger is loaded by a script and we did not read it
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a built-in mirroring option: «仓库镜像管理（Gitee<->Github 双向同步）» - mirror management with two-way sync between Gitee and GitHub
A legitimate way to run one project in two ecosystems
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Languages
the interface language of the home page: zh-CN
The language is taken from the markup attribute, the versions from hreflang
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