How much does Dokku cost?

Dokku publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Dokku up to $849/one-time for Dokku Pro. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Dokku and Dokku Pro on Dokku?

Dokku Pro costs $849/one-time against Free, and adds lifetime licence with free upgrades and no subscription, covers 1 production and 2 pre-production servers, web dashboard and json rest api, git push over https for firewalled networks.

Which cloud tools can I use without paying?

6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Dokku have a free tier: Rook, OpenEBS, Longhorn, Coolify, Infracost.

Does Dokku charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Dokku 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 Dokku against before paying?

The closest cloud tools in this directory are Rook, OpenEBS, Portworx, Longhorn. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Dokku covering price, platforms and features.

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Dokku pricing

Dokku publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 31 August 2026, Dokku pricing is free across 2 published tiers. 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: 2
Free tier: Yes

Dokku 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.

Dokku pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Dokku	Free	4	Entry tier
Dokku Pro	$849/one-time	7	+$849/one-time, 7 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Dokku

Free

The entry tier. It covers mit licensed, no usage limits, command line and ssh only, all datastore and certificate plugins, community support.

Dokku Pro

$849/one-time

Over Dokku, this tier adds:

Lifetime licence with free upgrades and no subscription
Covers 1 production and 2 pre-production servers
Web dashboard and JSON REST API
Git push over HTTPS for firewalled networks
Team management and browser log tailing
Email support from the maintainers
Advertised as early bird pricing while the product is in development

Where Dokku stops being free

Dokku, Free

MIT licensed, no usage limits
Command line and SSH only
All datastore and certificate plugins
Community support

Dokku Pro, $849/one-time

The first thing you pay for:

Lifetime licence with free upgrades and no subscription
Covers 1 production and 2 pre-production servers
Web dashboard and JSON REST API
Git push over HTTPS for firewalled networks
Team management and browser log tailing
Email support from the maintainers
Advertised as early bird pricing while the product is in development

What the product covers

The full Dokku 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

Git push deploy
Heroku buildpacks
Datastore plugins
Automatic certificates
Zero downtime deploys
Pluggable schedulers

People bring Dokku in for running a dozen side projects and client applications on one virtual private server with heroku style deployment, moving off a managed platform when the monthly bill has grown faster than the traffic has, a consultancy that wants buildpack deployments without teaching every client team kubernetes, keeping a legacy procfile application alive on hardware you control after a managed platform deprecates its stack. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Dokku 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.

Dokku entry price against other Cloud tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Dokku (this page)	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-
Rook	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Dokku
OpenEBS	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Dokku
Portworx	$0.33/node hour	Per node hour	-	vs Dokku
Longhorn	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Dokku
Qovery	On request	quote	-	vs Dokku
Coolify	Free, then $5/month	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Dokku

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 Dokku badges page.

Before you pay for Dokku

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: 2 tiers between Free and $849/one-time, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Dokku runs on linux, docker, cli, self-hosted, and is published by Dokku (community project, maintained by Jose Diaz-Gonzalez) of Distributed. The full record is on the Dokku review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.

Dokku pricing on the vendor's own site

Dokku pricing questions

How much does Dokku cost?: Dokku publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Dokku up to $849/one-time for Dokku Pro. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Dokku have a free plan?: Yes. The Dokku tier costs nothing and covers mit licensed, no usage limits, command line and ssh only, all datastore and certificate plugins. Paying starts at $849/one-time for Dokku Pro.
What is the difference between Dokku and Dokku Pro on Dokku?: Dokku Pro costs $849/one-time against Free, and adds lifetime licence with free upgrades and no subscription, covers 1 production and 2 pre-production servers, web dashboard and json rest api, git push over https for firewalled networks.
Which cloud tools can I use without paying?: 6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Dokku have a free tier: Rook, OpenEBS, Longhorn, Coolify, Infracost.
What am I actually paying for with Dokku?: The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for running a dozen side projects and client applications on one virtual private server with heroku style deployment, moving off a managed platform when the monthly bill has grown faster than the traffic has, a consultancy that wants buildpack deployments without teaching every client team kubernetes.
Does Dokku charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Dokku 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 Dokku against before paying?: The closest cloud tools in this directory are Rook, OpenEBS, Portworx, Longhorn. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Dokku covering price, platforms and features.