Dokploy is an open-source, self-hostable PaaS that deploys apps, Docker Compose stacks and databases on servers you provide, with an optional hosted control plane (Dokploy Cloud). Quave ONE Connect runs a managed platform in your own cloud account, and Direct runs it on our regions.
Facts checked on November 10, 2026, with a source link on every row.
Dokploy is free to self-host, mostly Apache-2.0, runs on any server you own, supports Dockerfile, Docker Compose, Nixpacks, Railpack and buildpacks, previews for GitHub pull requests, and has an official MCP server. Dokploy Cloud runs the control plane for you from $4.50 per server per month. If you are happy to run servers yourself, it is hard to beat on price.
Quave ONE is for teams that want the platform run for them. With Dokploy you own the host OS, patching and firewall, and automatic autoscaling and database replication are not documented. Quave ONE manages databases with backups, autoscaling (enabled on request), logs kept 20 days, alerts, and email support from our team, on our regions (Direct, from $7.50 per zCloud) or in your own cloud (Connect, from $399/month plus a setup fee and a 12-month minimum).
| Quave ONE | Dokploy | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Direct: usage-based, $7.50 per zCloud per month (0.5 vCPU + 0.5 GB RAM), billed hourly. Overage lines apply to disk above 5 GB per zCloud, backups above 30 GB per environment, and builds above 600 minutes per month. Connect: a platform license from $399/month, and you pay your cloud provider directly. | |
| Smallest always-on app | 1 zCloud (0.5 vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM) for $7.50/month in standard regions (US-5, EU-3, BR-1), after a free Professional upgrade review. Logs, metrics, alerts, backups, MCP and support are included. EU-4 London is $26.50. | Whatever your server costs. Dokploy needs a server with at least 2 GB of RAM and 30 GB of disk. |
| Free option | Hobby account: deploy apps and databases to the US-1 Hobby region to evaluate. No charge and no credit card. Not for production. | The self-hosted edition is free indefinitely. |
| Run in your own cloud | Yes, with Connect: the same platform in your AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI account, or on-premise. 12-month minimum and a one-time setup fee. | |
| Who runs the servers | The Quave team runs the Kubernetes cluster in your cloud account: cluster and platform upgrades, monitoring and infrastructure alerts, with 24/7 on-call for infrastructure outages. You pay your cloud provider directly. | |
| Regions | Direct: Ashburn (US-5), Frankfurt (EU-3), London (EU-4) and São Paulo (BR-1). Connect: your own cloud account; the license covers one region and provider, more may cost extra. | No Dokploy regions: apps run on your servers. On Dokploy Cloud, Dokploy says your code and data never leave your servers. |
| Bandwidth | No extra network fees. In US-5, BR-1, EU-3 and EU-4, 10 GB of outbound traffic per zCloud per month is included; contact support if you need more. | Not metered by Dokploy: your server's allowance. |
| Managed databases | Managed MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ and ClickHouse, with managed backups kept 7 days by default. A single-node MongoDB starts at 1 zCloud ($7.50/month). | |
| Long-running apps and WebSockets | Long-running containers, so WebSockets work. Idle connections close after 60 seconds without data by default; keep-alive pings (such as Meteor DDP heartbeats) keep them open. | Docker containers on your servers behind Traefik, which handles WebSockets. |
| Autoscaling | CPU- and memory-based autoscaling for app environments, enabled per account on request. Scale to zero is Connect-only. | You set the number of replicas by hand, on a server or a Docker Swarm cluster. Automatic autoscaling is not documented. |
| Logs and metrics | Included: logs kept 20 days, Grafana metrics, alerts to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, email or webhooks, and OpenTelemetry tracing (enabled per account). | Live logs and basic resource graphs. Dokploy Cloud adds a monitoring dashboard with server CPU and memory alerts, metrics kept 2 days by default. Logs and metrics can be shipped to providers such as Datadog or Grafana Loki. Notifications to Slack, Discord, Telegram, email, webhooks and more. |
| Preview environments | Branch previews per pushed branch with the Quave ONE CLI and GitHub Action, cleaned up after a TTL. | Preview deployments for pull requests, for apps with the GitHub integration. |
| Support | Email support, Monday to Friday, 9AM–5PM São Paulo time, usually answered within an hour. 24/7 on-call for infrastructure outages on every plan. | |
| Compliance | Working towards SOC 2 (preparing for the audit). Customers with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications run on Quave ONE; with Connect, workloads stay in your own cloud account. | A certification for Dokploy itself is not documented. Dokploy says its Enterprise features are designed to support compliance with SOC 2, GDPR and internal governance requirements. |
| AI agents (MCP) | Remote MCP server included: AI clients can inspect logs, review deployments, manage environments and run approved Jobs, within your account permissions. | Official MCP server that exposes all Dokploy API endpoints as tools. |
Every fact on this page links to the public page it came from: our own docs for Quave ONE, and the vendor's own pricing or docs pages for everyone else. We checked them on November 10, 2026. Prices and features change, so check the source before you decide. If something here is wrong or out of date, email support@quave.one and we will fix it.