Dokploy vs Qovery Engine
| Tagline | Self-hosted PaaS to deploy apps and databases with Docker and Traefik | Open-source engine to deploy apps on your own cloud like a managed PaaS |
| Category | Self-Hosting Platforms & PaaS | Self-Hosting Platforms & PaaS |
| Replaces | Heroku, Vercel, Netlify, Render | Heroku, Render |
| GitHub stars | 37k | 2.5k |
| Language | TypeScript | Rust |
| License | Apache-2.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 5/5 Advanced |
| Deploy options | Docker Docker Compose Manual | Kubernetes Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 4 days ago | 4 days ago |
| View repo | View repo |
Where each falls short
The honest trade-offs — what you give up with each, versus the proprietary tools they replace.
Dokploy
- 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.
Qovery Engine
- It is the engine/library, not a turnkey product; the full UX is tied to Qovery's (paid) control plane.
- Designed to provision cloud infrastructure, so it expects an AWS/GCP/Azure/Scaleway account rather than a single box.
- Standalone self-hosting without the Qovery platform is poorly documented.
- Smaller community and narrower scope than full PaaS dashboards.
Bottom line
Choose Dokploy if you want the lower-effort setup; choose Dokploy for the larger community and ecosystem. Open each guide below for deploy steps and the full feature gap.
Qovery Engine
Open-source engine to deploy apps on your own cloud like a managed PaaS