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CapRover pricing
CapRover publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the cloud tools listed alongside it.
As of 31 August 2026, CapRover pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
CapRover plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| CapRover | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where CapRover stops being free
CapRover, Free
- No paid tier and no hosted offering
- Unlimited applications, servers and users
- Community support through Slack and GitHub
- Apache 2.0 with a superseding appendix on paid features and redistribution
No paid tier on record
CapRover lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full CapRover feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- One-click applications
- Automatic certificates
- Web dashboard
- Multiple deploy paths
- Docker Swarm clustering
- Custom nginx configuration
People bring CapRover in for running a personal server or homelab with several applications behind automatic certificates, a two person team that wants a dashboard rather than a terminal for deployments on one box, standing up one-click databases and internal tools without writing compose files, hosting client demos cheaply where downtime is inconvenient rather than expensive. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to CapRover are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cloud
Too few cloud tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CapRover (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Rook | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs CapRover |
| OpenEBS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs CapRover |
| Portworx | $0.33/node hour | Per node hour | - | vs CapRover |
| Longhorn | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs CapRover |
| Qovery | On request | quote | - | vs CapRover |
| Dokku | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs CapRover |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the CapRover badges page.
Before you pay for CapRover
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
CapRover runs on web, linux, docker, cli, self-hosted, and is published by CapRover (community project, BigZee Ventures LLC) of Not disclosed. The full record is on the CapRover review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
CapRover pricing questions
- How much does CapRover cost?
- CapRover publishes a single tier, CapRover, at Free.
- Does CapRover have a free plan?
- Yes. The CapRover tier costs nothing and covers no paid tier and no hosted offering, unlimited applications, servers and users, community support through slack and github.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside CapRover have a free tier: Rook, OpenEBS, Longhorn, Dokku, Coolify.
- What am I actually paying for with CapRover?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for running a personal server or homelab with several applications behind automatic certificates, a two person team that wants a dashboard rather than a terminal for deployments on one box, standing up one-click databases and internal tools without writing compose files.
- Does CapRover charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these CapRover prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare CapRover against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Rook, OpenEBS, Portworx, Longhorn. Each has a side-by-side comparison with CapRover covering price, platforms and features.