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dokployvsnginx-love

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

dokploynginx-love
Score80/10050/100
Rank in category#2 of 14 in Platform as a Service#3 of 3 in Web Application Firewall
GitHub stars38 097312
Stars, last 30 days+611—
Stable releases, 12 months271
Latest releasev0.30.10 · 22 Oct 2026v4.01 · 31 Oct 2025
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseOtherApache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

dokploy scores 80/100 against 50/100 for nginx-love, so it is the safer default.

dokploy ships more often: 27 stable releases in the past year, against 1 for nginx-love.

If you want the quickest setup, dokploy is easier to run; nginx-love needs more configuration.

dokploy is growing faster right now (+611 stars in 30 days).

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