Dokploy vs Zoraxy
| Tagline | Self-hosted PaaS to deploy apps and databases with Docker and Traefik | General-purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool with web UI |
| Category | Self-Hosting Platforms & PaaS | Self-Hosting Platforms & PaaS |
| Replaces | Heroku, Vercel, Netlify, Render | Heroku, Netlify, Render |
| GitHub stars | 37k | 5.5k |
| Language | TypeScript | Go |
| License | Apache-2.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 2/5 Easy |
| Deploy options | Docker Docker Compose Manual | Docker Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 4 days ago | yesterday |
| 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.
Zoraxy
- No application deployment or build pipeline capabilities
- Advanced load balancing algorithms (least-connections, consistent hashing) are absent
- Plugin and extensibility ecosystem is minimal compared to NGINX or Caddy
- High-availability and clustering configurations are not officially supported
Bottom line
Both are a similar lift to self-host; choose Dokploy for the larger community and ecosystem. Zoraxy has seen more recent development. Open each guide below for deploy steps and the full feature gap.