Open-source alternatives to Heroku

Heroku in the Developer tools category. These are the open alternatives we recommend looking at.

Coolify

Self-hosted platform for deploying websites, databases and apps on your own servers.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
62.5k
Deployment
Docker
Login/SSO
OIDC

Dokploy

Self-hosted PaaS for deploying apps and databases, an alternative to Vercel and Heroku.

Apache-2.0PermissiveOpen core

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
37.6k
Deployment
Docker

Dokku

Small Docker-based PaaS that deploys apps with git push, in the style of Heroku.

MITPermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
32.2k
Deployment
Server

Caprover

Simple PaaS for your own server that deploys apps with Docker and nginx.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
15.2k
Deployment
Docker

KubeVela

Application platform on top of Kubernetes for describing and delivering apps in a uniform way.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
7.9k
Deployment
CLI

Tsuru

Extensible PaaS for deploying and scaling apps on Kubernetes.

BSD-3-ClausePermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
5.3k
Deployment
Server

Kubero

Self-hosted PaaS on Kubernetes for deploying apps from Git, in the style of Heroku.

GPL-3.0Strong copyleft

SaaS: YesClosed product: No

GitHub stars
4.4k
Deployment
Docker
Login/SSO
OIDC

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