Self-hosted alternatives
Open source alternatives to Heroku
Heroku is a hosted platform that runs an app from a git push, billed by dyno.
Published by Salesforce. The projects below are sorted by GitHub stars. Star counts and last commit dates are read from the public GitHub API. The line under each name is generated from the category, the licence, and whether the project can be self-hosted. Fetched . 3 of 4 have an OSI-approved SPDX licence, a commit in the last 12 months, and a repository GitHub has not archived.
1Coolify
coollabsio/coolify
Hosting and backend. Licence: Apache-2.0. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- GitHub stars
- 62,993
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.
2Dokploy
Dokploy/dokploy
Hosting and backend. Licence: Apache-2.0. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- Apache-2.0Open core
- GitHub stars
- 37,792
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.
3Dokku
dokku/dokku
Hosting and backend. Licence: MIT. Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- MIT
- GitHub stars
- 32,186
- Last commit
Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.
4Caprover
caprover/caprover
Hosting and backend. Licence: Source-available (Apache-2.0 with custom restrictions). Self-hosted: yes.
- Licence
- Source-available (Apache-2.0 with custom restrictions)
- GitHub stars
- 15,185
- Last commit
Does not count toward the open source minimum: Source-available (Apache-2.0 with custom restrictions).