Heroku is a cloud platform-as-a-service for deploying, running, and scaling web applications. It provides managed runtimes (dynos), buildpacks, add-on services (databases, caches, logging), CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling for app lifecycle management.
Supabase is an open source Postgres development platform providing authentication, auto-generated REST/GraphQL APIs, realtime subscriptions, edge functions, file storage, and vector embeddings.
108.4k stars13.7k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
Open-source, self-hostable PaaS to deploy websites, full-stack apps, databases, and Docker services on your own servers with Git-based CI/CD workflows.
61.1k stars5.4k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
Komodo is a self-hosted build and deployment platform to automate builds and deploy Docker containers and Compose stacks across many servers with a web UI and API.
12.1k stars394 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
Self-hosted Heroku/Netlify-style PaaS for Kubernetes with GitOps pipelines, templates, add-ons, logs, and SSO—deploy from source or Docker without Helm charts.
4.4k stars213 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
bknd is a lightweight Firebase/Supabase alternative that provides a modular backend with REST API, admin UI, auth, media, and workflows, deployable across many JS runtimes.
3.8k stars146 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
Canine is an open source Kubernetes deployment platform that provides a Heroku-like PaaS experience with Git-driven deploys, web UI management, and built-in SSL and secrets.
2.9k stars120 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
Websoft9 is a web-based Linux panel and lightweight PaaS for deploying, running, and operating hundreds of open-source applications on your own server.
2.1k stars321 forkslast commit Actively maintained
Para is an open-source, Java-based multitenant backend framework providing a RESTful JSON API, full-text search, distributed caching, and flexible authentication for web, mobile, IoT and prototype apps.
573 stars155 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained
TypeScript-based self-hosted deployment platform that clones, builds, and deploys apps from Git repositories using Docker Compose.
489 stars25 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 9 of 9 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0, GPL-3.0, AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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