Alternatives to Vercel in 2026

Coolify coollabsio

An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 360+ one-click services on your own servers.

Complete system Production-ready You want push-to-deploy convenience on your own VPS fleet without Kubernetes.

★ 66k Apache-2.0 PHP Active, pushed today

Dokku dokku

A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications

Complete system Production-ready You want Heroku-like git push deployments on your own cheap VPS for small apps.

★ 32k MIT Shell Active, pushed today

KubeVela kubevela

The Modern Application Platform.

Framework or platform Usable A platform team wants to give developers a simpler application abstraction over multiple Kubernetes clusters.

★ 7.9k Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 2 days ago

Piku piku

The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers.

Complete system Usable You deploy small apps to a low-powered machine such as a Raspberry Pi or small VPS where Docker is too heavy.

★ 6.6k MIT Python Active, pushed 2 months ago

Tsuru tsuru

Open source and extensible Platform as a Service (PaaS).

Framework or platform Usable A platform team wants to offer an internal Heroku-like experience on top of Kubernetes.

★ 5.3k BSD-3-Clause Go Active, pushed 13 days ago

Tau taubyte

Fullstack Workspace for Humans & Machines

Framework or platform Usable You want to build your own Vercel- or Cloudflare-like serverless platform on servers you control.

★ 5.2k BSD-3-Clause Go Active, pushed yesterday

Kubero kubero-dev

A free and self-hosted PaaS alternative to Heroku / Netlify / Coolify / Vercel / Dokku / Portainer running on Kubernetes

Complete system Usable You already have a Kubernetes cluster and want developers to deploy Heroku-style without learning Kubernetes.

★ 4.5k GPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 21 days ago

Octelium octelium

A next-gen FOSS self-hosted unified zero trust secure access platform that can operate as a remote access VPN, a ZTNA platform, API/AI/MCP gateway, a PaaS, an ngrok-alternative and a homelab infrastructure.

Complete system Experimental You want to replace a VPN with identity-based access to internal services and prefer running it yourself instead of buying Cloudflare Access or Tailscale.

★ 4.2k AGPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed today

Beta9 beam-cloud

Ultrafast serverless GPU inference, sandboxes, and background jobs

Framework or platform Usable You want Modal-style serverless GPU workloads, either on Beam's cloud or on your own GPU servers.

★ 1.8k AGPL-3.0 Go Active, pushed today

PaaSTA Yelp

An open, distributed platform as a service

Complete system Usable You are curious how a large company built its internal PaaS, or have a setup very close to Yelp's.

★ 1.7k Apache-2.0 Python Active, pushed today

Steedos Platform steedos

The AI-Native Infrastructure for Enterprise Apps. Powered by ObjectStack (ObjectQL, ObjectOS, Object UI). Turn Prompts into Enterprise Software.

Framework or platform Usable You want a self-hosted, metadata-driven alternative to Salesforce Platform for internal business apps.

★ 1.6k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 14 days ago

Cloud-in-a-bottle cloud-in-a-bottle

Deploy, use, and share web apps on a server you control. Your apps, data, and infrastructure stay yours.

Complete system Experimental You want a personal cloud for running open-source web apps on hardware you control.

★ 1.2k AGPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed today

Sandboxd tastyeffectco

Open-source, self-hosted AI app builder — an agent builds real apps in isolated sandboxes on your own server, each live at a preview URL. Self-host in one command. MIT.

Complete system Experimental You want a Lovable- or Bolt-style prompt-to-app tool running on your own infrastructure.

★ 977 MIT Go Active, pushed today

Swiftwave swiftwave-org

Self-hosted lightweight PaaS solution to deploy and manage your applications on any VPS [Your own self-hosted Heroku, Vercel]

Complete system Usable You want a Heroku-style dashboard on a few cheap VPSes or ARM boards without Kubernetes.

★ 909 Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed 4 days ago

Temps gotempsh

AI-native open-source alternative to Vercel + Sentry + PostHog + Pingdom + Resend + E2B. 440+ CLI operations with drop-in skills for Claude Code, Codex & OpenCode — deployments, analytics, session replay, error tracking, OpenTelemetry, email, sandboxes & AI gateway in one self-hosted Rust binary.

Complete system Experimental You want one box to replace a Vercel, Sentry and PostHog stack for small projects you host yourself.

★ 892 Apache-2.0 Rust Active, pushed today

Claudie berops

Cloud-agnostic managed Kubernetes

Complete system Usable You need a single Kubernetes cluster across multiple clouds or mixing cloud with your own bare metal.

★ 793 Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed today

CCOInsights Azure

Welcome to the Continuous Cloud Optimization Power BI Dashboard GitHub Project. In this repository you will find all the guidance and files needed to deploy the Dashboard in your environment to take benefit of a single pane of glass to get insights about your Azure resources and services.

Template or starter Usable Your operations team runs on Azure and already uses Power BI for reporting.

★ 760 MIT Wolfram Language Active, pushed 42 days ago

Zeabur zeabur

A platform that helps you deploy services with one click.

List, course or other material Production-ready You want to learn about or use Zeabur's hosted platform; for the platform itself look at the zeabur.com service.

★ 737 MPL-2.0 HTML Active, pushed 2 days ago

1Backend 1backend

Build AI (or any) apps with scalable microservices & microfrontends.

Framework or platform Experimental You want an on-premise base for AI-backed microservice apps and are comfortable betting on a small project.

★ 2.4k AGPL-3.0 Go Slowing, pushed 5 months ago

Backend.AI lablup

Backend.AI is a streamlined, container-based computing cluster platform that hosts popular computing/ML frameworks and diverse programming languages, with pluggable heterogeneous accelerator support including CUDA GPU, ROCm GPU, Gaudi NPU, Google TPU, GraphCore IPU and other NPUs.

Complete system Production-ready A research lab or company runs a shared GPU cluster and needs multi-user scheduling across mixed accelerator hardware.

★ 677 LGPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed today

Epinio epinio

Opinionated platform that runs on Kubernetes, that takes you from App to URL in one step.

Complete system Usable You want a Cloud Foundry-style push experience on a Kubernetes cluster you already run.

★ 618 Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed today

Coolify MCP StuMason

MCP server for Coolify — 42 optimized tools for managing self-hosted PaaS through AI assistants

Integration Usable You run Coolify and want to manage it from an AI assistant.

★ 617 MIT TypeScript Active, pushed today

Zeabur zeabur-oss

Self-hosted PaaS on your own Kubernetes.

Complete system Experimental You have a Kubernetes cluster and want a friendlier way for your team to deploy and inspect services on it.

★ 616 Apache-2.0 Rust Active, pushed today

Bex bex-co

The open-source Render alternative — AI-native. Git push → build → deploy on your own infrastructure; agents are first-class users.

Complete system Experimental You want a self-hosted Render alternative on Hetzner or your own Kubernetes and accept early-stage software.

★ 578 Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed today

Devopness devopness

Devopness: AI DevOps on your cloud. Deploy apps, infra and CI/CD. Any cloud and any stack, one MCP. Deterministic API, opinionated and fully configurable. No cloud credentials in AI chats. Free plan.

Complete system Usable You want one service to provision cloud servers and deploy apps in your own accounts without writing Terraform and CI yourself.

★ 573 Apache-2.0 TypeScript Active, pushed today

Dokku-postgres dokku

a postgres plugin for dokku

Integration Production-ready You deploy apps on Dokku and need a Postgres database next to them.

★ 525 MIT Shell Active, pushed yesterday

Cloudsimplus cloudsimplus

State-of-the-art Framework 🏗 for Cloud Computing ⛅️ Simulation: a modern, full-featured, easier-to-use, highly extensible 🧩, faster 🚀 and more accurate ☕️ Java 25+ tool for cloud computing research 🎓 Examples: https://github.com/cloudsimplus/cloudsimplus-examples

Framework or platform Usable You are researching cloud scheduling or resource allocation and need a simulator rather than real infrastructure.

★ 492 GPL-3.0 Java Active, pushed 3 days ago

QuickStack biersoeckli

Open-source, self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Netlify, Railway and Heroku. Self-host any app on your own servers in minutes.

Complete system Usable You want a Vercel- or Railway-like dashboard on your own VPSes and like that it uses k3s under the hood.

★ 364 GPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed yesterday

Cuber gem cuber-cloud

An open-source automation tool that simplifies the deployment of your apps on Kubernetes.

Developer tool Usable You want to deploy web apps to Kubernetes without writing YAML and your team is comfortable with Ruby tooling.

★ 711 Apache-2.0 Ruby Slowing, pushed 7 months ago

BCMS bcms

⭐️ BCMS is a cloud-base Headless CMS for developers & their clients. Works nicely with Gatsby, Next.js & Nuxt

Complete system Experimental Only if you want to fork it; the maintained BCMS is now a closed hosted product.

★ 465 MIT TypeScript Slowing, pushed 4 months ago

Netlify Netlify

American cloud computing company

Complete system Production-ready You run static or framework-built sites and want simple deploys with built-in forms and previews.

2.9k readers a month Since 2014 Commercial

Heroku Salesforce, Inc.

Experience fully managed app hosting that just works. Build, deploy, and scale on the battle-tested platform that defines the industry.

Complete system Production-ready You want the simplest managed hosting for a standard web app and value stability over price.

603 readers a month Commercial

Render Render

Deploy and scale any app or agent from your first user to your billionth. Build faster on intuitive cloud infrastructure for the modern web.

Complete system Production-ready You want a Heroku-style experience with more modern pricing for a typical backend and database.

Commercial

Fly.io Fly.io

Deploy apps, agents, and databases on fast, hardware-isolated VMs. Pay only for the seconds they run. Sign up free.

Complete system Production-ready Your app benefits from running in many regions near users and your team is comfortable with containers and some ops.

Commercial

Railway Railway

Complete system Production-ready A developer or small team wants to deploy a backend and database quickly without writing infrastructure config.

Commercial

Whisk Whisk

Hosting for your AI-created website, shop or app.

Complete system Usable You have built a site or small app with an AI coding tool and want somewhere simple to put it online.

Commercial