Three reasons teams self-host Git in 2026

1. Regulatory compliance

HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2 Type II, and ISO 27001 audits now require Git platforms to provide BAAs and explicit data-residency guarantees. GitHub Enterprise Cloud satisfies these only at the $21/user tier and above. EmpireGit ships BAA-ready at Enterprise ($99/user) with US-only data residency baked in.

2. AI training opt-outs

After the 2025 court rulings on training-data scraping, every major Git host now defaults to opting your code INTO LLM training corpora unless you explicitly opt out. EmpireGit defaults to opt-out for all paid tiers and offers cryptographic attestation (signed manifests) that no LLM provider has accessed your code.

3. Predictable scaling cost

A 50-developer team on GitHub Enterprise pays roughly $1,050/month for seats plus $400-1,500/month for Actions minutes. Same team on EmpireGit Enterprise pays $4,950/month with unlimited CI on a single self-hosted runner pool — but you avoid the variance and the contract-renewal price hikes.

The hybrid pattern

Most teams we work with run EmpireGit for production code (regulated, audited) and keep GitHub for open-source contributions. Our two-way sync agent makes this trivial: push to either side, mirror to the other.

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