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 Windmill if platform teams who will run Community Edition at $0 (≤50 users, 3 workspaces) and only buy EE when they need SAML, audit, or more than 10
Best for
Dokploy Apps you start at $4.50 Cloud or OSS $0
Windmill Scripts → endpoints / workflows / UIs you can self-host
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
Windmill $0 · /month. Unlimited executions. 3 workspaces. Max 50 users. 10 SSO users. 4 groups. 10 GiB object storage. 100 email triggers/day. 100 app guests / 30 days. Discord support
Lowest paid
Dokploy Startup (Cloud) $15/mo
Windmill Enterprise Edition $20/mo
Next step up
Dokploy
Windmill Compute units $100/mo
Runs where
Dokploy Local; you host it
Windmill Local; you host it
Watch out
Dokploy $4.50 is per Cloud server on the Yearly toggle
Windmill Community caps SSO at 10 and workspaces at 3
Last checked
Dokploy 2026-10-22 · dokploy.com/pricing
Windmill 2026-10-22 · windmill.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 pageplatform teams who will run Community Edition at $0 (≤50 users, 3 workspaces) and only buy EE when they need SAML, audit, or more than 10 SSO users.
Read the Windmill page
