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dokployvstesserae

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

dokploytesserae
Score80/10051/100
Rank in category#2 of 14 in Platform as a Service#14 of 44 in Dashboard
GitHub stars38 110984
Stars, last 30 days+613+2
Stable releases, 12 months2778
Latest releasev0.30.10 · 22 Oct 2026v0.480.0 · 26 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

dokploy scores 80/100 against 51/100 for tesserae, so it is the safer default.

tesserae ships more often: 78 stable releases in the past year, against 27 for dokploy.

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

dokploy is growing faster right now (+613 stars in 30 days).

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