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Open-source alternatives to Render

5 open-source projects are offered as replacements for Render. Dokku is the most starred. Running one yourself trades the subscription for your own hosting and upkeep, so the table below leads with what decides that trade: whether the project is alive, what its licence lets a business do, and whether there is a container command to start from.

4 / 5

Pushed in the last 90 days

0 / 5

With a container command

3 / 5

Permissive licence

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Side by side

Open-source alternatives to Render
Project	Stars	Activity	Licence	Self-host	Language
Dokku	32,194	Active	Permissive	○	Go
OpenFaas	26,252	Slowing	Not identified	○	Go
Caprover	15,188	Active	Not identified	○	TypeScript
Tsuru	5,322	Active	Permissive	○	Go
Dyrector	1,844	Active	Permissive	○	TypeScript

Each one, briefly

Dokku32,194 stars · permissive · active
A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications
Also replaces Heroku
OpenFaas26,252 stars · not identified · slowing
OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple
Also replaces Heroku
Caprover15,188 stars · not identified · active
Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids
Also replaces Heroku
Tsuru5,322 stars · permissive · active
Open source and extensible Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Also replaces Heroku
Dyrector1,844 stars · permissive · active
dyrector.io is a self-hosted continuous delivery & deployment platform with version management.
Also replaces Heroku

Where this comes from

Which projects are offered against Render comes from opensourcealternative.to, re-read weekly. Every figure in the table is read from the project’s own repository. We have not run these projects, and we hold no price for Render. Browse every open-source alternative.