Open source alternatives to Vercel

By GitHub stars it is Coolify, with 66,056 stars and a commit on 13 Nov. Choose Coolify when you would rather deploy to your own servers: it is open source and free to self-host, or $5 a month for its managed dashboard, and your bill is mostly the server you rent. Next come Appwrite (58,078 stars).

Yes. The code of all 2 is public under Apache 2.0 or BSD 3-Clause, so you can use them with no licence fee. Running one yourself costs the server and your time to look after it, and some makers also sell a hosted plan.

Start from the job you use Vercel for. Choose Appwrite when you want auth, databases, storage, functions and site hosting under one subscription, with a free plan for two projects.

All 2: Coolify and Appwrite. Each tool's page says what it needs to run.

All 2 we track had a commit in the last 30 days, among them Coolify and Appwrite. A recent commit shows the project is kept up, not that it will stay that way.

Apache 2.0 (1), BSD 3-Clause (1). MIT, BSD and Apache let you change and reuse the code freely.

The hosting. Vercel's maker runs the servers for you; with an open source tool the updates, backups, security fixes and support are yours, unless you take the maker's hosted plan. Features differ too, so check what each one imports and exports before you move your data.