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dokployvsportabase

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

dokployportabase
Score80/10060/100
Rank in category#2 of 14 in Platform as a Service#3 of 15 in Backup Management
GitHub stars38 0901 860
Stars, last 30 days+604+95
Stable releases, 12 months2764
Latest releasev0.30.10 · 22 Oct 20261.35.0 · 27 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherApache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

dokploy scores 80/100 against 60/100 for portabase, so it is the safer default.

portabase ships more often: 64 stable releases in the past year, against 27 for dokploy.

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

dokploy is growing faster right now (+604 stars in 30 days).

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