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DigitalOcean App Platform alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

coollabsio/coolify60,193Apache-2.0Open-source, self-hostable PaaS for deploying static sites, databases, and full-stack apps on your servers.Open on GitHub kubero-dev/kubero4,379GPL-3.0Self-hosted PaaS that runs on Kubernetes to deploy and manage apps similarly to Heroku/Netlify.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Managed autoscaling and production-ready scaling policies
Integrated team/billing/GUI and one-bill experience
Deep infrastructure optimizations (GPU/AI stack, owned silicon)
Enterprise support, managed backups, and built-in integrations

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches DigitalOcean App Platform, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.