Dokploy vs Lovable
Dokploy and Lovable are both hosting for ai-built apps software. Dokploy is open source under a license set out in its repository, with 38k GitHub stars. Lovable is a commercial product from Lovable.
Which to pick
- Pick Dokploy when
- You want a self-hosted deploy platform with Docker Compose and multi-server support.
- Pick Lovable when
- You want to build and run the app in one browser tool without installing anything.
Side by side
Deploys apps and databases to your own servers with backups, schedule jobs, rollbacks and notifications.
Builds a web app from chat in the browser and hosts it with a database, sign-in, secrets and scheduled jobs through Lovable Cloud.
You run the server yourself, and code under its proprietary directory is not Apache-licensed.
Data access depends on generated row-level security rules, Cloud use is billed in credits, and moving off means migrating to Supabase without user passwords.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
TypeScript and Docker
React and Supabase
Open source, license unclear on GitHub
Closed source, sold by Lovable
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
4.7k 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.