Depends on your needs. Do you only need a remote repo and issues + pull requests? Gitea all the way. Do you also do project management (sprints, milestones etc)

Depends on your needs. Do you only need a remote repo and issues + pull requests? Gitea all the way. Do you also do project management (sprints, milestones etc) and want CI/CD and integration with things like k8s etc? Gitlab (Premium)