Distribution
Anyport vs Distr
Distr
Your customer
In their own environment.
Who administers the application
Anyport
You do
From one console.
Distr solves the same problem as Replicated at a fraction of the price, which is a real achievement and not something we compete with. It distributes your application to customers who then self-host it, with deployment agents for Docker and for Kubernetes and Helm.
Anyport is the other side of that line: you operate the clusters, and there is nothing to hand over.
01Common ground
What both of them do
This much both products do, so the table below is only about where they differ.
- Kubernetes and Helm in environments you do not own.
- An agent inside the target environment, rather than a route into it.
- A free way to start, without talking to sales.
02The differences
Where they differ
Each row asks one question and sets the two answers across a seam. The highlighted row is the one this comparison turns on.
| Distr | Question | Anyport |
|---|---|---|
Distr A distribution platform For vendors whose customers self-host the software. | What it is | Anyport A control plane For operating applications on clusters your own team is responsible for. |
Distr Docker Compose, or Kubernetes with Helm Plus virtual machine and bare metal targets. | Runtime | Anyport Kubernetes Anyport can install k3s on a bare machine if you do not have a cluster. |
Distr Your customer In their own environment. | Who administers the application | Anyport You do From one console. |
Distr Their cloud, or yours Self-hosted from the same codebase. | Where the control plane runs | Anyport Hosted by us There is nothing for you to install, upgrade or back up. |
Distr Built in | Licensing and customer management | Anyport Not built |
Distr Not the product You bring images and charts. | Building from source | Anyport Connect a repository Every push builds on your own cluster and rolls out. |
Distr From 80 dollars a month Pro is $24 per internal user plus $56 per customer organisation; Business $32 and $128. Enterprise from $59,000 a year. Free community edition. Checked 2 October 2026. | Price | Anyport $5/mo or $50/yr 3 clusters free, then $2 a month each, billed by the hour. Compute on your own clusters is never metered. |
Distr See their site | Compliance | Anyport Not certified yet Controls are published in full on the security page instead. |
03The decision
Which one to choose
Each list is written to be true. If the first one describes you, the better product is theirs.
Choose Distr if
- Your customers install and run your software, and you need to track which version each of them has.
- You want the control plane to be something you can host and read the source of.
- You need to support Docker Compose customers as well as Kubernetes ones.
Choose Anyport if
- You operate the clusters, including ones inside customer premises, and nobody else administers the application.
- You want builds, revisions, rollbacks, previews per pull request, managed databases and HTTPS, not distribution.
- You want one console over a fleet of your own clusters, with roles and an audit log.
04In their words
What Distr is
Taken from their own documentation and pricing.
Distr is an open-source software distribution platform for delivering applications into customers' self-hosted environments, with deployment automation, licensing, monitoring and customer management.
It has deployment agents for Docker and for Kubernetes with Helm, and targets Docker Compose, virtual machines and bare metal as well.
Published pricing is Pro from 80 US dollars a month, made up of 24 dollars per internal user and 56 per customer organisation, Business from 160 dollars a month at 32 per user and 128 per customer organisation, Enterprise from 59,000 dollars a year, and a free open-source community edition.
05Questions
Questions people ask
Does Anyport distribute software to customers?
No. Anyport manages clusters your team is responsible for, which can include clusters inside customer premises. It has no licensing, entitlement or update-channel machinery to hand to a customer who administers the software themselves.
What does Anyport require of a cluster?
A Kubernetes cluster you can run one command against, or a bare Linux machine where Anyport installs k3s first. No inbound port, no public IP, no load balancer that can obtain one, and no kubeconfig handed to us. The agent opens a connection outward and holds it open. With no cluster at all, Anyport Cloud runs one for you on Pro, billed for what your apps use.
What does Anyport cost?
Three clusters are free with every feature and unlimited members, apps and projects. Pro is $5 a month with $5 of credit back each month; clusters past the free three are $2 a month each, and clusters on Anyport Cloud $5, billed by the hour. Compute on your own clusters is never metered because it is not ours, and the one counted resource there is traffic our gateway carries for clusters with no public address of their own: 10 GB a month free, 100 GB on Pro, then $0.02 per GB. A cluster on Anyport Cloud runs on our hardware instead and is billed for what your apps use, at $12 per vCPU and $6 per GiB of memory a month, from credit.
Is Anyport audited or certified?
Not yet. In place of a report, the security page documents what the agent runs with inside your cluster, what crosses the boundary and how secrets are stored, so a reviewer can evaluate the controls directly. Two of them hold regardless of certification: we never receive credentials for your Kubernetes API, and your workloads keep serving whether or not our control plane is reachable.
Start with three free.
Connecting a cluster is one command and takes a few minutes. Three clusters are free with every feature, and the pricing page works out what yours would cost.
Read next
All comparisons →- Anyport vs ReplicatedThe incumbent for ISVs distributing software to customers, with licensing, air-gap and support tooling. Priced accordingly.Who administers the applicationReplicatedYour customerAnyportYou do
- Anyport vs OmnistrateA private-label control plane for vendors, with the same egress-only connectivity model we use.What it isOmnistrateA private-label control planeAnyportA control plane your team uses
- Anyport vs PangolinIdentity-based remote access over WireGuard. It publishes what you already run; it does not run it.Does it deploy your applicationPangolinNoAnyportYes