Our take
Pick Dokploy if small teams who will run the free self-host installer on a 2 GB VPS, or start the 7-day Cloud trial and land on Hobby at $4.50/server/month (Yearly toggle) for one user and two environments when they want git → Deploy without a $15+ Startup seat. Pick Trigger.dev if app teams who will burn the Free $5 credits on a first durable task, then buy Hobby $10 or Pro $50 when concurrency and retention matter.
Best for
Dokploy Apps you start at $4.50 Cloud or OSS $0
Trigger.dev Long-running agents or background jobs you meter in credits
Free plan
Dokploy $0 · gitHub README: “free, self-hostable Platform as a Service.” curl -sSL https://dokploy.com/install.sh | bash on your VPS (installation). You pay the VPS, not Dokploy
Trigger.dev $0 · /month. $5 free credits. 20 concurrent runs. 5 members. 10 schedules. 1-day logs. 10 Realtime connections. Community support
Lowest paid
Dokploy Startup (Cloud) $15/mo
Trigger.dev Invocation $0.000025
Next step up
Dokploy
Trigger.dev Compute $0.0000338
Runs where
Dokploy Local; you host it
Trigger.dev
Watch out
Dokploy $4.50 is per Cloud server on the Yearly toggle
Trigger.dev Free is $5 of credits, then you stop
Last checked
Dokploy 2026-10-22 · dokploy.com/pricing
Trigger.dev 2026-10-22 · trigger.dev/pricing
small teams who will run the free self-host installer on a 2 GB VPS, or start the 7-day Cloud trial and land on Hobby at $4.50/server/month (Yearly toggle) for one user and two environments when they want git → Deploy without a $15+ Startup seat.
Read the Dokploy pageapp teams who will burn the Free $5 credits on a first durable task, then buy Hobby $10 or Pro $50 when concurrency and retention matter.
Read the Trigger.dev page
