Dokploy vs Kamal

Comparing two open source alternatives to Netlify and Vercel and Heroku and Railway and Render and Fly.io. Use the comparison below to decide which one fits your needs.

Dokploy

Apache-2.0

Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku.

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Kamal

MIT

CLI deployment tool from 37signals for zero-downtime Docker container deployments.

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Side-by-side comparison

	Dokploy	Kamal
License	Apache-2.0	MIT
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	37,790	14,647
Forks	3,076	756
Open Issues	775	159
Last Commit	Oct 14, 2026	Oct 13, 2026
First Released	Apr 19, 2024	Jan 7, 2023
Categories	PaaS & Deployment Tools	PaaS & Deployment Tools
Tags	#mysql #docker #devops #deployment	#deployment #devops #docker

GitHub stars over time

Dokploy37,790

Kamal

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