# Dokploy review (2026): is it worth $4.50 a month? > Open-source platform to deploy apps and databases on your own servers Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Dokploy is an open-source, self-hostable deployment platform built on Docker and Traefik, presented as an alternative to Heroku, Vercel and Netlify. It deploys applications and Docker Compose projects and manages databases with backups across one or many servers. A paid Cloud edition hosts the dashboard for a monthly fee per connected server, and the site also describes a free, self-installed edition. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** Dokploy - **Website:** https://dokploy.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you want a team: Hobby allows 1 user, 1 organization and 2 environments. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Dokploy is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $4.50 per server / month on the Cloud Hobby plan. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial on Dokploy Cloud, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Hobby | $4.50 per server / month | Unlimited deployments, databases and applications on 1 server, with 1 user, 1 organization and 2 environments. Community support on Discord. | | Startup | $15 per month, starting at, with extra servers at $4.50 each | Up to 3 servers, 3 organizations, unlimited users and environments, basic roles (Admin, Developer), 2FA, and email and chat support. | | Enterprise | Custom | Unlimited servers, fine-grained roles, SSO/SAML, SCIM, audit logs, white labeling and priority support, available hosted or self-installed. Sold through sales. | Read from https://dokploy.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Dokploy before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **20% off with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page's billing toggle labels yearly billing as a 20% discount; the yearly figures are not shown in the page text. Source: https://dokploy.com/pricing ## Key features - **Flexible builds:** Applications can be built with Nixpacks, Heroku Buildpacks or a custom Dockerfile, and Docker Compose is supported natively. - **Multi-server deployment:** Applications can be deployed to remote servers, and Docker Swarm clusters are supported for multi-node setups. - **Databases with backups:** MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB and Redis can be managed and backed up from the dashboard. - **Templates:** Open-source templates deploy popular apps such as Supabase, Cal.com and PocketBase in one click. - **Monitoring and notifications:** CPU, memory and network usage are shown in real time, with alerts sent to channels such as Slack, Discord, Telegram and email. - **API, CLI and MCP:** A REST API and a command-line tool are included, and AI tools can connect to Dokploy through MCP. ## Good for - Developers who want a managed dashboard for their own VPS servers - Small teams that want unlimited apps and databases at a per-server price - Companies that need SSO, audit logs or white labeling on self-run infrastructure ## Worth knowing - The Cloud plans are priced per connected server, and you bring the servers; extra servers cost $4.50 a month each. - The Hobby plan allows 1 user, 1 organization, 2 environments, 1 backup per database and 1 scheduled job per application. - Role-based permissions, 2FA and email and chat support start on the Startup plan; SSO, SCIM and audit logs need Enterprise. - The yearly toggle shows a 20% discount but only monthly figures are in the page text; a self-hosted Enterprise option is listed, and the docs call the software free and open source ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Dokploy deploys apps and databases to servers you bring, with Cloud plans priced per connected server from $4.50. The cheap plan is limited and the permission features start on higher plans. - **Value for money: B.** Hobby is $4.50 per server a month, inside the cheaper quarter, and you bring the servers. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 7-day trial with no card. After that, nothing free on Cloud, though the software is described as open source. - **Features: C.** Builds, multi-server deploys, backups, templates, monitoring, API, CLI and MCP. Hobby is limited to 1 user, 2 environments and 1 backup per database. - **Ease of use: D.** You connect and run your own servers, which takes command-line and server skills. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web dashboard with an API, CLI, MCP server and several integrations. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Dokploy's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - Dokploy's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 74 of the 122 other web hosts we grade, and level with 24. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 79 of 122) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $4.50 a month, against a middle price of $9.69 for the category: 28 of the 107 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 11 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** Dokploy sits between: not beyond making, and not a weekend's work either. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $54 a year. Dokploy is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: Databases with views, filters and links between them. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Docker, Traefik and GitHub among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Docker, Traefik, GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Discord, Telegram **Tags:** Open source, Self-hostable, Public API, Databases, AI features ## Alternatives - [Coolify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/coolify): Open-source platform to deploy apps and databases to your own servers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/coolify-vs-dokploy) - [CapRover](https://toolgpa.com/tools/caprover): Free, self-hosted platform for deploying apps with Docker. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/caprover-vs-dokploy) - [Dokku](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dokku): Open-source, single-server platform as a service you run yourself. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dokku-vs-dokploy) - [Render](https://toolgpa.com/tools/render): Cloud hosting for web services, databases and workers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dokploy-vs-render) - [Railway](https://toolgpa.com/tools/railway): App and database hosting billed by the second for usage. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dokploy-vs-railway) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://dokploy.com/pricing - https://dokploy.com - https://docs.dokploy.com/docs/core Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/dokploy Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).