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Cloud software

39 products matching your filters. Each one described on the same fields, so two tools can be read against each other rather than against their own marketing.

Showing 1–24 of 39

  • Alibaba Cloud logo

    Alibaba Cloud

    Asia's leading cloud computing provider

    Free
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • API

    4 alternatives · 3 limitations documented

  • Buildah logo

    Buildah

    Build OCI container images without a daemon or a Dockerfile

    Free
    • Linux

    2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • Caddy logo

    Caddy

    Web server with automatic HTTPS by default

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    • +1
    5 integrations

    1 alternative · 3 questions answered

  • CapRover logo

    CapRover

    Free self-hosted platform built on Docker Swarm with a dashboard and automatic certificates

    Free
    • Web
    • Linux
    • Self-hosted
    • +1
    6 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Chef logo

    Chef

    Infrastructure automation and management

    Free
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • +1

    4 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Cilium logo

    Cilium

    eBPF-based networking, observability and security for Kubernetes

    Free
    • Self-hosted
    • Linux
    5 integrations

    1 alternative · 3 questions answered

  • containerd logo

    containerd

    Industry-standard container runtime, and the engine inside Docker

    Free
    • Linux
    • Windows
    5 integrations

    2 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Coolify logo

    Coolify

    Open source self-hosted platform that deploys applications and databases to servers you already own

    Free plan, then $5/mo
    • Web
    • Linux
    • Self-hosted
    11 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Dokku logo

    Dokku

    Single-server platform that accepts a git push and runs Heroku buildpacks on Docker

    Free
    • Linux
    • Self-hosted
    • API
    9 integrations

    3 alternatives · 4 questions answered

  • Flux logo

    Flux

    GitOps continuous delivery for Kubernetes

    Free
    • Self-hosted
    • Linux
    5 integrations

    1 alternative · 3 questions answered

  • Go logo

    Go

    Build fast, reliable, and efficient software at scale

    Free
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • macOS

    1 alternative · 2 questions answered

  • HAProxy logo

    HAProxy

    High-performance TCP and HTTP load balancer

    Free
    • Linux
    • Self-hosted
    5 integrations

    2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • IBM Cloud logo

    IBM Cloud

    Enterprise cloud solutions from a trusted partner

    Free
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • API

    4 alternatives · 5 limitations documented

  • Infracost logo

    Infracost

    Cloud cost estimates in pull requests, with governance in the paid tier

    Free plan, then $250/mo
    • Web
    • macOS
    • Linux
    • +2
    8 integrations

    2 alternatives · 5 questions answered

  • Jaeger logo

    Jaeger

    Open-source end-to-end distributed tracing

    Free
    • Linux
    • Self-hosted
    5 integrations

    2 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • K3s logo

    K3s

    Lightweight certified Kubernetes distribution in a single binary

    Free
    • Linux
    • Self-hosted
    5 integrations

    1 alternative · 4 questions answered

  • kind logo

    kind

    Run Kubernetes clusters inside Docker containers

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    5 integrations

    1 alternative · 3 questions answered

  • Kustomize logo

    Kustomize

    Template-free customisation of Kubernetes YAML

    Free
    • Self-hosted
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • +1
    5 integrations

    1 alternative · 3 questions answered

  • Linkerd logo

    Linkerd

    Lightweight service mesh for Kubernetes

    Free
    • Self-hosted
    • Linux
    5 integrations

    1 alternative · 3 questions answered

  • Longhorn logo

    Longhorn

    Open source distributed block storage for Kubernetes, incubating at the CNCF

    Free
    • Linux
    • Self-hosted
    6 integrations

    3 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • minikube logo

    minikube

    Run a single-node Kubernetes cluster locally for development

    Free
    • Linux
    • macOS
    • Windows
    5 integrations

    1 alternative · 3 questions answered

  • Nomad logo

    Nomad

    Flexible workload orchestration

    Free
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • macOS
    • +1

    4 alternatives · 3 questions answered

  • OpenEBS logo

    OpenEBS

    Open source container-attached storage for Kubernetes

    Free
    • Linux
    6 integrations

    3 alternatives · 3 questions answered

Head to head

Cloud tools, compared

Pairings from this slice of the directory, each one checked by two reviewers who agreed a buyer would weigh the two against each other.

How this works

What you are looking at

Where does this data come from?

Pricing, platforms and feature lists are taken from each vendor's own pages. Limitations, answered questions and alternatives are researched separately and carry a source URL on the page that states them. Every product is described on the same fields, so two tools can be read against each other rather than against their own marketing.

Why are there no star ratings?

Because we did not collect any. Softwr hosts no reviews, and a rating aggregated from somewhere else is not ours to publish as though it were an assessment we made. What is shown instead is what a tool costs, where it runs, and what it is concretely bad at.

How are alternatives chosen?

A researcher proposes them, then two independent reviewers judge one question each: would a buyer evaluating this product seriously consider that one instead. 225 of 1,841 candidates failed and were deleted, including a font inspector matched to a dark mode extension. Only pairings that survived both rounds are published.

Do vendors pay to appear here?

Not to be listed. A vendor can buy a place in the results on the home page, on a category listing or on the catalogue, and where they do the result carries a Sponsored label. Everything not carrying that label is ordered on the same criteria as everything else, and a paid place never changes where an unpaid one lands: the editorial order flows around it. Where a link earns a commission that is disclosed on the page carrying it.

How current is it?

Prices and plan limits move without notice, so treat anything with a number on it as a starting point and check the vendor before you buy. Where a claim could go stale it carries the source it came from, which is the fastest way to tell.