Dokploy vs Heroku
Dokploy and Heroku are both paas and app hosting software. Dokploy is open source under a license set out in its repository, with 38k GitHub stars. Heroku is a commercial product from Salesforce, Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Dokploy when
- You want a self-hosted deploy platform with Docker Compose and multi-server support.
- Pick Heroku when
- You want the simplest managed hosting for a standard web app and value stability over price.
Side by side
Deploys apps and databases to your own servers with backups, schedule jobs, rollbacks and notifications.
A platform-as-a-service that builds and runs apps from a git push, with managed Postgres, Redis and add-ons.
You run the server yourself, and code under its proprietary directory is not Apache-licensed.
Expensive for the resources you get, there is no free tier any more, and it has seen little new development under Salesforce.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
TypeScript and Docker
Not published
Open source, license unclear on GitHub
Closed source, sold by Salesforce, Inc.
GitHub could not read the license. Check it in the repository before reusing any code.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
38k GitHub stars
603 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v0.31.0.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-06 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.