Codebase
Git, Mercurial and Subversion hosting with project management tools
About Codebase
Codebase is a hosted code repository and project management service that supports Git, Mercurial and Subversion side by side. Each project combines repositories with tickets, sprints and milestones, wiki-style notebooks, time tracking, file sharing and exception tracking. It is operated by UK web host Krystal Hosting and is priced per account by number of active projects rather than per user.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Supports Git, Mercurial and Subversion in one account, which few hosted services still do
- Flat per-account pricing with unlimited users on Freelancer and above, so costs don't grow with headcount
- Bundles tickets, sprints, wikis, time tracking and exception tracking alongside code hosting
- Billed/unbilled time tracking suits agencies and freelancers who invoice clients
- Unlimited archived projects on every plan keep old client work accessible without counting against limits
- No fixed contracts and a 15-day trial without a credit card
Cons
- No free plan; the cheapest tier is £20/month
- Interface and feature set feel dated compared with GitHub or GitLab
- No built-in CI/CD pipelines; deployment relies on separate tools such as DeployHQ
- Small ecosystem of integrations and little independent review coverage
- Prices are in GBP and exclude VAT, and plan limits are based on active projects and disk space
Key Features
Multi-VCS repository hosting
Host unlimited Git, Mercurial and Subversion repositories per project and mix repository types within the same project.
Tickets and issue tracking
Create and assign tickets with custom statuses, priorities and tags, comment on them, and watch tickets to get updates.
Sprints, milestones and kanban
Group backlog tickets into agile sprints or milestones with deadlines and track progress on a kanban board.
Exception tracking
Get notified when a new error occurs in your application, with occurrence counts, full backtraces and request and session parameters.
Notebooks
Source-controlled Markdown wikis for project documentation, with attachments, folders and cross-linking.
Time tracking
Log hours against projects and tickets, set estimates, and split time into billed and unbilled categories.
Customisable permissions
Control user access per project or restrict specific functionality through configurable permission groups.
Saved searches and filtering
Account-wide ticket search with filters and saved searches for frequently used queries.
Developer API
API access to repositories, tickets, discussions, users and projects for custom integrations.
Custom branding
Upload your logo, choose a colour scheme and serve Codebase from your own domain (for example code.yourcompany.com).
Pricing
- 6 active projects
- Unlimited archived projects
- 4GB disk space
- 10 users
- 20 active projects
- Unlimited archived projects
- 8GB disk space
- Unlimited users
- Custom branding
- Data export
- 45 active projects
- Unlimited archived projects
- 14GB disk space
- Unlimited users
- 110 active projects
- Unlimited archived projects
- 30GB disk space
- Unlimited users
- 230 active projects
- 70GB disk space
- Unlimited users
Best For
Agency client projects
Run many client projects in one account with per-project permissions, billable time tracking and custom branding on your own domain.
Legacy Subversion and Mercurial repositories
Keep older SVN or Mercurial codebases hosted next to newer Git repositories without migrating them.
Small dev teams wanting an all-in-one tool
Combine code hosting, ticketing, sprints and documentation in a single service instead of stitching together GitHub, Jira and a wiki.
Freelance developers
Track hours against tickets, share files with clients and keep documentation in notebooks for each engagement.
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