Dokploy
The free alternative toVercel Pro,Netlify Pro,Heroku,Railway
Dokploy turns any Linux server into a personal Vercel, Netlify, Heroku or Railway. You connect GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket: on every push it builds your app, deploys it and gives it a domain over HTTPS. It uses Railway's build engines (Railpack, Nixpacks), Buildpacks or your Dockerfile, so a Railway project builds the same way on your server. It also handles Docker Compose and creates Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB or Redis databases in one click, backed up to S3. Its catalogue of ready-to-deploy templates includes quite a few tools from this library. The install fits in one line on a fresh VPS, and the core is Apache 2.0 licensed. Good to know: you run the server yourself. If you would rather not run the master server, the team sells a cloud version.
Versus Vercel Pro: the match
Price
Dokploy
€0, plus a VPS from €5 a month for all your apps
Vercel Pro
€18 a month per person, as soon as it is commercial
Number of apps
Dokploy
As many as your server can carry
Vercel Pro
Unlimited, but every usage is billed
Databases
Dokploy
Postgres, MySQL, Mongo, Redis included, with backups
Vercel Pro
Separate services, billed separately
| VS | Dokploy | Vercel Pro ↗ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | €0, plus a VPS from €5 a month for all your apps | €18 a month per person, as soon as it is commercial |
| Number of apps | As many as your server can carry | Unlimited, but every usage is billed |
| Databases | Postgres, MySQL, Mongo, Redis included, with backups | Separate services, billed separately |
| Bandwidth | The VPS's, often unmetered | 1 TB included, then €0.13 per GB |
| Multi-service apps | Native Docker Compose | Not built for it, you need other services |
| Maintenance | Yours: server updates | Handled by them |
How to install it (even from zero)
A fresh Ubuntu VPS (€5 to €10 a month), a domain name, one command. Then everything happens in the interface. Count twenty minutes to your first app online.
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Paste this prompt into Claude (Code or Desktop)
It installs Dokploy from the official project on your server, secures access and deploys a first app from your Git repo:
Installe Dokploy sur mon serveur (la plateforme de déploiement open source, alternative à Vercel, Netlify et Heroku, repo GitHub Dokploy/dokploy) en suivant la doc officielle docs.dokploy.com. Pars de zéro : il me faut un VPS neuf sous Ubuntu avec au moins 2 Go de RAM, connecté en SSH, sans autre service qui occupe les ports 80, 443 et 3000. Lance le script d'installation officiel curl -sSL https://dokploy.com/install.sh | sh, puis ouvre l'interface sur le port 3000 et crée mon compte administrateur. Dans les réglages, associe un sous-domaine à Dokploy lui-même pour y accéder en HTTPS et ferme ensuite l'accès direct au port 3000. Connecte mon compte GitHub, crée un projet, déploie ma première application depuis son dépôt (détecte toi-même s'il faut Nixpacks ou un Dockerfile), donne-lui un nom de domaine avec certificat HTTPS automatique, et vérifie qu'elle répond. Si elle a besoin d'une base de données, crée-la dans Dokploy et branche la variable de connexion. Explique chaque étape simplement, je débute. Review the GitHub repository and check whether it is safe to install given my machine and my infrastructure. Ask me as many questions as possible, using widgets, to clarify my request and be as precise as you can.
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Deploy from the template catalogue
n8n, Plausible, PocketBase and other tools from this library are in the catalogue: one click, a domain, it is online.
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Turn on database backups
An S3 storage (Backblaze, Scaleway, Cloudflare R2) plugged into Dokploy, and your databases are backed up every night.
Paste this prompt into Claude (Code or Desktop)What you actually do with it
Put online what you vibe-code
Your app is on GitHub, you connect it, it is online with its domain and HTTPS. Every push updates it, like on Vercel.
Test ten ideas without ten subscriptions
One VPS hosts all your experiments, databases and tools. You delete what does not work, you keep what does.
Host this whole library
n8n, PocketBase, Plausible, Postiz: Dokploy deploys them from its catalogue or from their docker-compose, with backups.
Project health, at a glance
Before installing an open-source tool, one question matters: is the project alive? These scores are computed from public GitHub data. They are not made up.
83/100
ExcellentVery active, well-maintained project: go ahead with confidence.
- Activity
- 100
Is the code moving? (commits in the last 30 days)
- Maintenance
- 100
How fresh is the latest update? Fresher is better.
- Community
- 93
Stars and contributors: people around means help and fixes.
- Maturity
- 80
Project age. Old enough to be solid, still alive.
- Momentum
- 44
Current pace versus its usual pace: speeding up or dozing off?
The repo in numbers
- GitHub stars
- 38.2k
- Forks
- 3.1k
- Contributors
- 389
- Commits
- 7.4k
- Project age
- 2.5 yrs
- Last commit
- 2 d ago
- Size
- 34.4 MB
- License
- Other
Built with
- TypeScript 98.1%
- PLpgSQL 1%
- Go 0.5%
Scores computed automatically from the GitHub API (last-30-days activity, update freshness, community size, project age). Refreshed daily.
Loucash’s take
8/10
If you build apps with Claude or Cursor, you always end up with the same question: where do I put this online? Vercel opens its arms, and as soon as it is commercial or grows, the Pro plan kicks in, €18 per person, plus overages. Dokploy gives you that freedom back: a €5 VPS, one command, and you deploy as many apps, databases and tools as you want, with domains and HTTPS handled. What I like: it really is the Vercel experience, the push that deploys, the live logs, but at your place. Native Docker Compose and the template catalogue also make it the best way to host the rest of this library. What to know: you become responsible for the server. Updates, backups, access security: Dokploy helps, but does not do it for you. And for a free static site with no commercial use, Vercel's Hobby plan remains unbeatable. Dokploy makes full sense from the second app, or the first one that earns money.
It’s for you if: You regularly put apps online, you have several or they make money, and you accept to maintain a VPS.
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