Deploy apps, databases, and services to your own server
- Stars
- 63.3k
- Growth
- +1.2k
- Launched
- Jan 2021
Apache-2.0updated today
R.I.P.Open-source alternatives to Vercel
8 projects replace Vercel, the frontend cloud platform. 7 shipped code in the last 30 days.
Vercel bills on top of seats for bandwidth, function time and image optimization, and a viral post or bot spike can produce a surprise invoice. Next.js features tend to work best on Vercel, which ties the framework to one host. Teams with steady traffic often find a single rented server cheaper and easier to predict.
Coolify and Dokploy put a Vercel-style dashboard on your own server: connect a git repo and get preview deployments, SSL and databases. Dokku is the older, command-line take on Heroku's git push workflow. CapRover sits in between, with a web UI and one-click apps. None of them run on a global edge network unless you build that yourself.
8 open-source alternatives
Most-starred first. Stars, growth and activity are live from GitHub.
Open-source backend platform for rapid app development
- Stars
- 57.7k
- Growth
- +312
- Launched
- Apr 2019
BSD-3-Clauseupdated today
Effortless deployment and management for any VPS
- Stars
- 37.9k
- Growth
- +477
- Launched
- Apr 2024
Custom licenseupdated 4d ago
Self-hosted mini-PaaS for deploying applications easily
- Stars
- 32.2k
- Growth
- +47
- Launched
- Jun 2013
MITupdated today
Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids
- Stars
- 15.2k
- Growth
- –
- Launched
- Oct 2017
Custom licenseupdated 1d ago
Deploy apps instantly with git push - open source alternative
- Stars
- 4.8k
- Growth
- +25
- Launched
- Jan 2025
MITupdated 7mo ago
A free and self-hosted PaaS alternative to Heroku / Netlify / Coolify / Vercel / Dokku / Portainer running on Kubernetes
- Stars
- 4.4k
- Growth
- –
- Launched
- May 2022
GPL-3.0updated 7d ago
One self-hosted binary replaces Vercel, Sentry, and analytics tools
- Stars
- 854
- Growth
- +81
- Launched
- Oct 2025
Apache-2.0updated today
What you give up by leaving Vercel
The honest part. Free and open usually costs something else.
- No global edge Your app runs where your server is, not in dozens of regions close to every visitor.
- Next.js extras Edge middleware, image optimization at scale and Vercel's analytics need extra setup or other services.
- Scaling is manual A traffic spike will not add servers by itself unless you set that up.
- Server care You patch the OS, watch disk space and handle backups for the whole machine.
