Dokploy vs Netlify
Thinking of swapping Netlify for the open-source Dokploy? Here’s the honest trade-off.
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What you give up vs Netlify
- Licensing has proprietary portions (not fully permissive for all uses), unlike a pure OSS PaaS.
- No managed edge CDN or global anycast network; you supply the infrastructure.
- Relies on Docker Swarm, which is less actively developed than Kubernetes for large-scale orchestration.
- Observability and team/RBAC features are thinner than commercial platforms.
What you gain
- • Full data ownership — self-host Dokploy on your own infrastructure.
- • No per-seat SaaS bill (Netlify: surprise bandwidth overages).
- • Open-source code you can audit and extend (Apache-2.0).