Codebahn is a managed, commercially supported Git hosting and CI platform operated by Hackerman AB (org.nr 559079-1918), a bootstrapped Swedish company based in Gothenburg. It markets itself as a focused, independent GitHub alternative for European teams: unlimited users on every plan, flat-rate pricing, and hosted CI runners included on every paid organisation tier. The service is built on the open-source Forgejo engine (GPL-3.0), and Codebahn provides one-click export in an open format so customers can leave without lock-in.
The infrastructure story is the differentiator. Primary compute, object storage, managed PostgreSQL, the container registry, transactional email and observability all run on Scaleway fr-par (Paris, France), with encrypted daily backups (via Restic) stored separately on Hetzner Falkenstein (Germany). Codebahn publishes a full sub-processors list naming exactly four vendors, all EU-incorporated: Scaleway (France), Hetzner (Germany), Mollie (Netherlands, payments) and Crisp (France, in-app support). There is no US entity in the data path, and the DPA is public at codebahn.net/dpa without a login. Feature coverage includes repositories, issues, pull requests with branch protection, webhooks, container registry, releases, a package registry, EU-based CI/CD, GitHub workflow compatibility, and migration import of up to 100 repositories with full history preserved.
Pricing runs from Personal at 9 EUR/month (5 GiB, bring-your-own CI runners) through Starter (39 EUR, 25 GiB, 3,000 CI minutes), Team (119 EUR, 200 GiB, 10,000 minutes) and Scale (249 EUR, 500 GiB, 25,000 minutes), with annual billing saving two months and a 30-day money-back guarantee. As a bootstrapped company with no investors, Codebahn positions its terms as stable with no acquisition risk. Best fit: European teams and businesses that want a paid, supported managed forge with a contractual DPA and a verifiably all-EU sub-processor chain, rather than a free community service.