replacing Vercel
Open Source Vercel Alternatives
Frontend cloud platform for Next.js deployment — Vercel pricing: $20-$150/user/month. Below: 2 free,
self-hostable open source projects that cover the same ground, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
There are 2 open source Vercel alternatives tracked on this registry, against Vercel pricing of $20-$150/user/month. The most-adopted is Coolify with 61,942 GitHub stars under Apache-2.0, written in PHP. Together the set has 99,294 stars across 2 languages and 1 licence. All 2 are free to self-host with no licence fee, and 2 of 2 received a commit in the last 90 days. 2 head-to-head Vercel comparisons are available.
Vercel's free tier is generous for hobby projects but production deployments hit limits fast. Pro at $20/user/month caps at 1TB bandwidth. Enterprise pricing is custom and opaque.
Our top 2 Vercel alternatives
Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) designed to replace commercial services like Vercel, Heroku, and Netlify. It runs on user-provided infrastructure—VPS, bare metal, or Raspberry Pi—and automates deployment, scaling, and management of applications, databases, and services using Docker and Docker Compose. Built with Laravel and PHP, it lives in the infrastructure and operations ecosystem, targeting developers and DevOps teams seeking vendor lock-in-free control over their deployment stack.
Apache-2.0 · PHP · Vercel vs Coolify →
Dokploy is an open-source Platform as a Service that runs on a virtual private server and manages the full lifecycle of applications and databases from a single control surface. It is written in TypeScript, is catalogued under Infrastructure & Operations / Server & VM Management, and describes itself as a self-hosted PaaS. Deployment targets include Node.js, PHP, Python, Go, and Ruby applications, alongside managed databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, libsql, and Redis. Docker sits underneath as the container runtime, and routing and load balancing are handled through automatic Traefik integration. The project also exposes a CLI and an API for managing applications and databases without the web interface.
NOASSERTION · TypeScript · Vercel vs Dokploy →
last updated nightly · ranking method: github stars, live-tracked
Frequently asked questions
What is the best open source alternative to Vercel?
Coolify is the most-starred open source alternative to Vercel in this registry, with 61,942 GitHub stars. 2 alternatives are compared here in total.
Are there free alternatives to Vercel?
Yes. Every project listed on this page is open source and free to self-host — there is no licence fee. Some projects also sell a managed hosted version, but the self-hosted path costs nothing.
What should I look at when replacing Vercel?
Compare licence terms, community size (stars), primary language and release activity. A fast-moving project with a compatible licence and an active maintainer base matters more than raw star count when you are committing to a migration.