Dokploy is a clean, lightweight deployer built around Docker Compose — for people willing to run and maintain the server underneath it. Freehold is a full managed platform on the same foundation, with nothing to operate yourself.
Dokploy is a lightweight deployer you install and operate yourself. Freehold runs the infrastructure end to end — nothing to patch, size, or keep alive.
Every Freehold service ships with a private .onion address by default. Dokploy has no built-in Tor routing.
Freehold adds billing, a 300+ template catalog, metrics, alerts, and audit logs on the same Docker Compose foundation Dokploy is built on.
| Feature | Freehold | Dokploy |
|---|---|---|
| Who operates the server | Freehold — fully managed | you — self-hosted |
| Billing model | Hourly, capped monthly | free software; your server costs |
| Tor .onion address | ✓ | — |
| One-click templates | 300+ | limited |
| Metrics dashboard | CPU, RAM, requests, alerts | basic (Traefik only) |
| Audit log | ✓ | — |
| Billing & invoices | built in | none |
| GitHub push-to-deploy | ✓ | ✓ |
| License | proprietary, managed service | open source, self-run |
Dokploy is open source and self-hosted — it has no central account system, so "identity check" doesn't apply to it the way it does to hosted platforms.
No credit card required to start. No ID, ever. The full platform, none of the server ops.