Docker
Anyport vs Dokploy
Dokploy
Docker and Traefik
Docker Swarm once there is more than one node.
Runtime
Anyport
Kubernetes
Anyport can install k3s on a bare machine if you do not have a cluster.
Dokploy is the fastest-growing product in the Docker tier and a good answer if Docker Compose is how you describe your applications. Anyport does not compete with it on that ground and would be a poor substitute for it.
The split is the same one as with Coolify: Dokploy's multi-node story is Docker Swarm, and Anyport runs only on Kubernetes.
01Common ground
What both of them do
This much both products do, so the table below is only about where they differ.
- Push to a Git branch and it builds and rolls out.
- Automatic HTTPS on your own domains.
- Managed databases with scheduled backups.
- Logs, environment variables and a terminal into a container.
- Your workloads run on hardware you own and pay for directly.
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.
| Dokploy | Question | Anyport |
|---|---|---|
Dokploy A self-hosted PaaS You install it on your own Linux servers. | What it is | Anyport A hosted control plane For Kubernetes clusters you already run. |
Dokploy Docker and Traefik Docker Swarm once there is more than one node. | Runtime | Anyport Kubernetes Anyport can install k3s on a bare machine if you do not have a cluster. |
Dokploy On your server You install, upgrade and back it up. | Where the control plane runs | Anyport Hosted by us There is nothing for you to install, upgrade or back up. |
Dokploy Nodes join the manager's Swarm | How it reaches your infrastructure | Anyport Your cluster connects out The agent dials us and holds one connection open. |
Dokploy Swarm connectivity and a registry The other nodes have to be able to pull the image from somewhere. | What your infrastructure must expose | Anyport Nothing No inbound port, no public IP, no reachable API server. |
Dokploy You do | Who provisions the machines | Anyport You do, or Anyport does Attach machines you own, or have Anyport Cloud run the cluster and bill what it uses. |
Dokploy Free to self-host, or $4.50 a server hosted Dokploy Cloud: Hobby at $4.50 a month per server, Startup from $15. Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, fine-grained roles and audit logs. Checked 2 October 2026. | Price | Anyport $5/mo or $50/yr 3 clusters free, then $2 a month each, billed by the hour. Roles and audit are included. |
Dokploy None claimed No certification appears in the documentation. | 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 Dokploy if
- Docker Compose is already how your services are described and you want that file to stay the source of truth.
- You want the control plane on hardware you own, with no third party in the path.
- A few servers in one place, where Swarm's model is a fair match for the problem.
- You want it free, today, with no account anywhere.
Choose Anyport if
- Your services already run on Kubernetes, or need something Swarm does not have: operators, CRDs, autoscaling, an existing CNI policy.
- Your clusters are in places with no inbound route, so a manager node cannot reach out to them and they cannot join anything.
- You want managed databases run by operators, with scheduled backups to your own S3-compatible bucket.
- You need per-resource roles and an audit log across several clusters without moving to an enterprise tier.
- You have no server yet. Anyport Cloud runs the cluster for you, and servers you attach later join the same console.
04In their words
What Dokploy is
Taken from their own documentation and pricing.
Dokploy installs on a server and deploys with Docker and Traefik. Docker Compose is a first-class way to describe an application rather than an import path.
Multiple servers are Docker Swarm. Dokploy initialises Swarm on the deploy server, and its cluster documentation has you add worker nodes to that Swarm and configure a Docker registry first, because the image has to reach the other nodes somehow.
It is open source and free to self-host. Dokploy Cloud hosts the control plane at $4.50 a month per server on Hobby, or from $15 a month on Startup with servers added at the same $4.50, and an Enterprise tier is documented as adding SSO, SCIM provisioning, fine-grained roles and audit logs.
05Questions
Questions people ask
Does Dokploy support Kubernetes?
Not in its documentation. Dokploy's orchestration is Docker Swarm, which it initialises for you when you set up a deploy server. Kubernetes is not documented as a supported target.
Is Docker Swarm enough instead of Kubernetes?
For a lot of workloads, yes, and if it is then the extra machinery of Kubernetes is a cost with no return. The cases where it is not tend to be operators, an existing cluster you have to use, or a customer's cluster you do not control.
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.
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