Open source Vercel alternatives

Every project in the catalog is MIT, Apache or BSD licensed. 2 projects explicitly describe themselves as a Vercel alternative; 10 more are in the category where Vercel is a typical product.

Projects that call themselves a “Vercel alternative”

Source: the project's GitHub description or README.

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coollabsio · Deployment & PaaS / Vercel Alternatives

STARS65.3K
FORKS5.9K
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS664
VERSIONv4.2.0
UPDATEDtoday
PHPSelf-HostedPaaSApache-2.0

Alternative to (project's own claim): Vercel, Heroku, Netlify

What can it do?
  • You can manage your applications and databases on your own hardware or VPS.
  • You can configure your servers using only the SSH connection.
  • Even if you stop using Coolify, you can still manage the resources running on your server.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

    “Been using coolify to host my blog + analytics + a couple personal projects for around 6 months. Good for 1-click installs that “don’t need” a lot of maintenance, like Ghost, Plausible, etc. Had some issues with spikes in CPU usage (similar case: ) Monitoring is not enough but I…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

    “Those "magic variables" have caused more pain than being helpful. - Added 8 variables inside docker-compose, only 7 get recognized - Why my docker-compose works locally and not on Coolify? Oh yeah it has its own network stuff. Then tell me beforehand! - Error messages like "Oops…”

Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source

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glincker · DevOps / Build / Infra

STARS130
FORKS14
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv0.8.6
UPDATEDtoday
ci-cdcoolify-alternativedeploymentdevopsApache-2.0

Alternative to (project's own claim): Vercel, Coolify, Netlify, Heroku, Railway

Common commercial products in this category: GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Atlassian Bamboo

What can it do?
  • Agents, not SSH. Each node runs a small agent that dials out over mTLS and talks to Docker's Engine API directly. No inbound ports, no shelling out to the docker CLI, no polling loops.
  • Deploys that protect you. Readiness-gated rollouts, pinned images for rollback, canary releases that roll back on errors, deploy diffs, approvals and freezes.
  • Built for AI agents. An MCP server with over 240 tools in on-demand toolsets (small default list, about 2.4k tokens; see tool surface), a scoped-token permission model and an agent skill.

Open source projects in the same category: Deployment & PaaS / Vercel Alternatives

Category-level information: these projects are the same kind of software as Vercel; they have not claimed to be a one-to-one replacement.

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Dokploy · Deployment & PaaS / Vercel Alternatives

STARS38.1K
FORKS3.1K
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS334
VERSIONv0.9.4
UPDATEDtoday
paasdockerdeploymentSelf-HostedApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Heroku, Vercel, Netlify

What can it do?
  • You can easily stream applications in different languages such as Node.js, Python, or Go via Docker.
  • You manage databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis and back it up to external storage areas.
  • Using Docker Swarm, you scale your applications to multiple servers and monitor resource usage in real time.
Heads up
  • • High number of open issues (735)
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2

    “This seems like an unfair comparison for Dokku. I haven’t used the rest, but I have used Dokploy and Dokku. Dokku has had every single feature I could want or need, even accounting for weird edge cases. It just doesn’t have a UI. With Dokploy, on the other hand, I found the UI…”

  • ↑ PositiveHacker News

    Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2

    “I love the Dokploy promise but I’ve come across some glaring bugs and inconsistencies that have made living with it difficult. I’ve had to consult its source code because if it’s lack of documentation in a few instances. Support, even for paying customers, is lacking, too.…”

Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source

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caprover · Deployment & PaaS / Vercel Alternatives

STARS15.2K
FORKS1.0K
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS73
VERSIONv1.9.0
UPDATED5 days ago
paasdeploydockerheroku-alternativeApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Heroku, Vercel, Netlify

What can it do?
  • You easily distribute applications that you develop with languages like NodeJS, Python, PHP, and Go to your server.
  • You quickly complete the database and application installations by selecting them through the interface.
  • You perform server management with automatic SSL certificate and Nginx load balancing configuration.
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basecamp · Deployment & PaaS / Vercel Alternatives

STARS14.7K
FORKS768
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS165
VERSIONv2.9.0
UPDATED10 days ago
RubyCLIDockerMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Heroku, Vercel, Netlify

What can it do?
  • With Docker, you deplore any web application you make into a container with zero downtime.
  • You coordinate command execution and distribution processes using SSHKit on multiple servers.
  • With the help of kamal-proxy, you navigate requests smoothly between different containers.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Kamal Proxy – A minimal HTTP proxy for zero-downtime deployments

    “> There’s some more explanation on why they decided to switch away from Traefik: Unfortunately no. I posted my comment after reading that PR. It says nothing of substance, and presents no justification. The case to roll out their own is summarized in this claim: > No need for…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Kamal Proxy – A minimal HTTP proxy for zero-downtime deployments

    “> This primarily exists to take care of a fundamental issue in Docker Swarm (Kamal's orchestrator of choice) where replacing containers of a service disrupts traffic. If that's the reason then I feel someone failed to do even the most cursory research on the topic. I mean, a…”

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255kb · Deployment & PaaS / Vercel Alternatives

STARS12.5K
FORKS601
COMMITS905
CONTRIBUTORS153
VERSION—
UPDATED2 days ago
Ücretsiz ServislerAltyapıDeveloper ToolsBulut BilişimMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Heroku, Vercel, Netlify

What can it do?
  • You discover services that offer free layers for your application hosting and database needs.
  • Study the API management and monitoring tools you can use in your small-scale projects.
  • You compare cost-free solution options in testing and code collaboration processes.
Heads up
  • • No published release
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deployphp · Deployment & PaaS / Vercel Alternatives

STARS11.1K
FORKS1.5K
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv8.0.5
UPDATED2 mo ago
deploydeploymentphpprovisionMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Heroku, Vercel, Netlify

What can it do?
  • Sunucularını otomatik olarak hazırlarsın
  • Uygulamanı sıfır kesintiyle dağıtırsın
  • Çoğu PHP framework'ü için hazır tarifleri kullanabilirsin
User reviews
  • ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue

    Deployer unable to find composer installed recipes

    “| Q | A | ----------------- | --- | Issue Type | Question | Deployer Version | 6.0.3 | Local Machine OS | WSL | Remote Machine OS | CentOS 7 ### Description Deployer fails to find and require recipes installed via the method included in the third party recipe instructions ###…”

  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    Deprecate phpseclib, ext-ssh2 🦋

    “| Q | A | ----------------- | --- | Issue Type | Feature Request | Deployer Version | 5.x Now Deployer have 3 different implementations of ssh client: phpseclib, ext-ssh2 and native. I suggest deprecate first two and leave only native implementation with ssh multiplexing turned…”

Verified against README · Oct 30, 2026 · source

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woodpecker-ci · Deployment & PaaS / Vercel Alternatives

STARS8.1K
FORKS736
COMMITS8.0K
CONTRIBUTORS615
VERSIONv3.9.0
UPDATEDtoday
GoCI/CDApache-2.0

Common commercial products in this category: Heroku, Vercel, Netlify

What can it do?
  • You can install it on your server with a variety of methods and run it as a CI/CD engine.
  • By scanning existing plugins, you can expand pipeline processes with plugins.
  • With the default SQLite database, you run a lightweight CI/CD infrastructure that uses about 100 MB on the idle server, 30 MB RAM on the agenda.

Verified against README · Oct 25, 2026 · source

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piku · Deployment & PaaS / Vercel Alternatives

STARS6.6K
FORKS157
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS34
VERSIONv1.0.0
UPDATED1 mo ago
paasgitSelf-HostedLightweightMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Heroku, Vercel, Netlify

What can it do?
  • Go SSH You send your codes to your server via the remote server connection.
  • With the Procfile configuration, you independently run applications in different programming languages.
  • On servers with ARM and Intel architecture, you scale multiple applications in isolation.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers

    “I like Epinio which does the same but on top of kubernetes. It is backed by Suse and lightweight compared to KNative (which is the basis of GCP CloudRun for example), but being kubernetes based still requires more Resources than dokku or Piku. I still prefer k8s due to the vast…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers

    “You are right it needs docker but so does Dokku and I see this more as an implementation detail (even a plus in my book for the flexibility). Epinio does admittedly not support git push but for me „epinio push --name myapp“ feels similar enough. In the end, I can just push my…”

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tsuru · Deployment & PaaS / Vercel Alternatives

STARS5.3K
FORKS555
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv1.33.0
UPDATED10 days ago
GoPaaSKubernetesDevOpsBSD-3-Clause

Common commercial products in this category: Heroku, Vercel, Netlify

What can it do?
  • You write applications with the programming language you want
  • Support applications with add-on resources such as SQL and NoSQL database
  • You manage applications with the tsuru command line tool
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Tsuru - open source platform as a service (written in Go)

    “The original motivation wasn't exactly that, but we changed it. At the first moment, we started an open source platform as a service based on Globo.com needs. That's why tsuru first supported EC2 instances. But that's pretty expensive: having 10 virtual machines for an app is…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Tsuru - open source platform as a service (written in Go)

    “git works as a deployment tool, but not in all cases. It's useful to deploy code, but when writing Java or Go, you usually don't deploy the code, you deploy compiled binaries. Currently, tsuru forces you to deploy your code (you can create a git repository versioning the…”

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taubyte · Deployment & PaaS / Vercel Alternatives

STARS5.2K
FORKS234
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv1.1.10
UPDATED2 mo ago
GoWorkspaceDeploymentCloudBSD-3-Clause

Common commercial products in this category: Heroku, Vercel, Netlify

What can it do?
  • With the Dream tool, you quickly build a local development environment.
  • You distribute your applications to your own servers or virtual machines.
  • You automate distribution processes using Spore Drive.
User reviews
  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    [cleanup] Delete deprecated DomainsWhiteList struct

    “Delete deprecated struct make sure it's not being used anywhere else.”

  • ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue

    De-duplicate starfish mock client

    “`starfish` is a mock client for `patrick`. The problem is that it is defined 3 times. See: We need to consolidate in one place under `clients/p2p/patrick/mock`”

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sst · Deployment & PaaS / Vercel Alternatives

STARS26
FORKS2
COMMITS—
CONTRIBUTORS294
VERSIONv4.9.3
UPDATED5 mo ago
awsServerlessiactypescriptMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Heroku, Vercel, Netlify

What can it do?
  • You develop applications on AWS using framework such as Next.js, Remix, or Astro.
  • Using the CLI tool, you distribute your application infrastructure over your own AWS account.
  • In the local development environment, you test by connecting to live AWS services with the tools SST offers.
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Launch HN: SST (YC W21) – A live development environment for AWS Lambda

    “Yeah it's a little confusing to describe the difference. But what most of the tools currently do is, locally mock a Lambda function execution. You cannot test anything beyond that. For example, if your Lambda function publishes to a SNS topic that invokes another Lambda…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Launch HN: SST (YC W21) – A live development environment for AWS Lambda

    “That's a really interesting comparison. The part of SST that I didn't get a chance to touch on in the post is the higher level constructs. These give you more of that framework type feel. Currently we do APIs, queues, cron jobs, and pub/sub. We won't force people to use these…”