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dokployvsvanilla-cookbook

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

dokployvanilla-cookbook
Score80/10046/100
Rank in category#2 of 14 in Platform as a Service#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars38 111158
Stars, last 30 days+614+0
Stable releases, 12 months2713
Latest releasev0.30.10 · 22 Oct 2026v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupEasyEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

dokploy scores 80/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

dokploy ships more often: 27 stable releases in the past year, against 13 for vanilla-cookbook.

dokploy is growing faster right now (+614 stars in 30 days).

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