Dokploy alternatives
xCloud vs Dokploy: Pricing, Server Control, and Features Compared
Dokploy is a self-hostable app deployment platform; WordPress is one template among 518+, not a managed product. xCloud is a WordPress control panel from $5 a month.
- Staging push/pull, core and plugin updates, blueprints and magic login built for WordPress
- Files and database backed up together, incrementally, and restored in one click
- Bulk site and server migration, included on every plan
- The 7G/8G firewall and Fail2Ban, configured for you
- Dokploy's dashboard is free forever if you self-host it; xCloud's managed plans start at $5/month with the server included.
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- 14-day money-back guarantee
- No migration fee, ever
- 4.8 · 390+ reviews on TrustpilotRated by the people already running WordPress on xCloud
Quick verdict
Choose xCloud if…
- You want WordPress-specific tooling: staging push/pull, blueprints, core and plugin update management, magic login.
- You want the 7G/8G firewall and Fail2Ban configured for you, not assembled by hand.
- You want files and database backed up together as one site, incrementally, and restored in one click from the panel.
- You want bulk site and server migration built into the panel, not a Docker Compose file you write yourself.
- You don't want to also maintain the panel software's own updates and uptime on top of your sites.
- You want team permissions scopable per server and action on every plan, not fine-grained RBAC gated to an Enterprise tier.
- You want live chat support on every plan, not a community Discord as the main support channel.
- You want a white-label reseller programme with your own Stripe billing, not just panel white-labelling.
- You want managed hosting for AI agents like OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Paperclip and Buzz, one click away.
- You want a 14-day money-back guarantee on a fully managed plan.
14-day money-back guarantee. Cancel any time.
Free Forever, or a Managed Dashboard: Pick a Lane
Both platforms let you connect a server you already pay for. Dokploy's open-source build is free at any scale if you run it yourself; xCloud's free tier covers one server.
1Self-hosted / bring your own server
| What the free route includes |  xCloudFree/mo1 server, 10 sites; then $3–5/server |  DokployFree/moSelf-hosted open-source build, unlimited servers and sites |
|---|---|---|
| Self-hosted | ||
| What the price covers | Yes. The panel only. First server and ten sites free; then a per-server rate. You keep and pay your own cloud provider directly. | Yes. The dashboard only, and the open-source build is free forever, at unlimited scale, as long as you install and maintain it yourself. |
| Root access | Yes. Full root on every server you connect. | Yes. Full root — it is your server either way. |
| Who maintains the panel software | Yes. xCloud's team. You never patch the panel itself. | Limited. You do. Self-hosting Dokploy means keeping Dokploy itself updated and running. |
| Sites and servers | Yes. Unlimited sites once you are past the free tier's ten. | Yes. Unlimited servers and deployments on the self-hosted build. |
2Managed dashboard
| What the paid dashboard includes | xCloud$5/moManaged 1 GB, billed monthly | Dokploy$4.50/moDokploy Cloud Hobby, per server, billed monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Managed dashboard | ||
| What the price covers | Yes. The panel and the server, one bill. xCloud provisions and manages the infrastructure for you. | No. Nothing equivalent. Dokploy Cloud manages the dashboard only; the servers you connect are still billed by your own cloud provider. |
| Fully managed plan (xCloud provisions the server too) | Yes. Yes — pick a plan and the server is included. | No. Not offered at any tier. |
| Dashboard fee, per server connected | Limited. $5/server at 2–5 servers, $4 at 6–10, dropping to $3/server at 11+. | Limited. Dokploy Cloud Hobby is $4.50/mo per server for one user; Startup is $15/mo for up to three servers with unlimited users; larger fleets are Enterprise, priced on request. |
| Money-back guarantee | Yes. 14 days, cancel any time. | Limited. A 7-day free trial; no refund policy published. Self-hosting instead has nothing to refund. |
Pricing
xCloud vs Dokploy: Pricing Comparison
The dashboard fee, per connected server, for each product's paid tier. The underlying VPS is billed separately by your own cloud provider either way.
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| Servers connected |  xCloud | Dokploy Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Free (10 sites) | $4.50/mo (Hobby, 1 user) |
| 3 | $15/mo | $15/mo (Startup) |
| 5 | $25/mo | $15/mo + $4.50/extra server |
| 10+ | $40/mo | Enterprise (custom) |
Docker, Git Push, and What Each One Actually Runs
Dokploy's whole product is deploying Dockerised apps from Git across many servers. xCloud does that too, alongside a WordPress-specific control panel Dokploy does not have.
| Deployment and stack | xCloud | Dokploy |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | ||
| Deploy from a Git push | Yes. Auto-deploy on push, with branch selection and rollback. | Yes. Auto-deploy on push, its core pitch. |
| Pull-request preview deployments | Limited. Not published as a general PR-preview feature. | Yes. Spins up a temporary environment per pull request. |
| Auto-detects the app stack on deploy | Yes. Stack auto-detection on one-click Git deployment. | Yes. Nixpacks, Heroku Buildpacks or a custom Dockerfile, auto-detected on deploy. |
| Runs arbitrary Docker Compose applications | Yes. Yes, alongside WordPress and the one-click app library. | Yes. Yes — native Docker Compose support is part of the product. |
| Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go and other non-PHP app hosting | Yes. Node.js, Laravel and Next.js, with queue workers. | Yes. Any language or framework Docker can package. |
| Web server | NGINX and OpenLiteSpeed, tuned for WordPress. | Traefik as the reverse proxy in front of your containers, with Let's Encrypt per domain. |
| Browser SSH terminal and command runner | Yes. A shell into the actual server, from the panel. | Limited. A run-command feature executes shell commands in the container; a full browser server shell is not published. |
Support, Teams and What It Costs on Top
Both platforms answer through a public channel. Live chat, granular team roles and white-labelling are where they part ways.
| Team, support and business model | xCloud | Dokploy |
|---|---|---|
| Getting hold of someone | ||
| Team accounts | Yes. Included on every plan. | Yes. Included, self-hosted and Cloud alike. |
| Role-based / granular team permissions | Yes. Scopable to particular servers and actions, and included, not a separate tier. | Limited. Admin and Developer roles on the Startup tier; fine-grained RBAC is reserved for the Enterprise tier. |
| Live chat support | Yes. On every plan. | Limited. Not published. |
| Community support (forum / Discord) | Yes. A public Discord and documentation, alongside live chat. | Yes. A public Discord and GitHub — the main support channel on the free route. |
| Email support | Yes. Included. | On the paid Cloud and Enterprise tiers. |
| White-label reseller programme with your own billing | Yes. A dedicated program, your own Stripe billing. | Limited. Panel white-labelling on Enterprise, but no reseller programme with your own billing. |
Databases and Caching, Side by Side
Dokploy ships a wider database catalogue than xCloud. Neither platform is benchmarked here.
| Databases and caching | xCloud | Dokploy |
|---|---|---|
| Data layer | ||
| Database engines | Yes. MySQL/MariaDB, managed for WordPress, plus external database support. | Yes. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and Redis (and libsql), one click each. |
| One-click database provisioning | Yes. One click, for the WordPress-managed MySQL/MariaDB database. | Yes. One click, across any of the supported engines. |
| External / remote database support | Yes. Connect an external database as a data source. | Yes. Connect an external database as a data source. |
| Redis / object caching | Yes. Redis object caching, managed from the panel. | Yes. Redis is one of the one-click database templates. |
Moving a WordPress Site Between xCloud and Dokploy
Dokploy has no WordPress-aware export, because it has no concept of a WordPress site — only a container and a database. Migration here is a manual step on both sides.
Moving a WordPress site onto xCloud
xCloud- Yes. Bulk site and server migration, included on every plan
- Yes. A feature of the panel — point it at the source and go
- Yes. cPanel migration path for sites hosted elsewhere
Dokploy- Limited. No built-in migration tool — take a database backup and a volume archive, then reassemble the site by hand
- Limited. Then import through xCloud's WordPress migration tooling on the way in
What it costs
xCloud- Yes. Nothing. No migration fee, on either route
- Yes. Unlimited number of sites migrated
Dokploy- Yes. Nothing to pay Dokploy — it never charges for moving a site
- Limited. The manual export/import work is the real cost, in time rather than money
What moves cleanly
xCloud- Yes. Files and database together, in one pass, in bulk
- Yes. Migrate Guru, a free WordPress plugin documented as compatible with xCloud
Dokploy- Yes. Any Dockerised app, since Dokploy does not care what is inside the container
- Limited. A WordPress site specifically needs its files and database reassembled by hand — there is no WordPress-aware export
Before you start
xCloud- Limited. Disable 2FA and Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode on the source site first
- Yes. Then migrate, test while DNS still points at your old host, and cut over
Dokploy- Limited. If moving away from Dokploy: take a fresh database dump and copy the app's persistent volumes before you decommission the container
Firewalls, Backups and What You Can Restore
Both cover the baseline: free SSL, scheduled backups. Backups are where they diverge, and only one side does incremental site backups scoped to a WordPress site.
| Security and backups | xCloud | Dokploy |
|---|---|---|
| Protection and recovery | ||
| 7G / 8G firewall rule sets | Yes. Both rule sets, managed from the panel. | No. Not published. Server-level firewalling is left to you. |
| Fail2Ban integration | Yes. Included, blocking brute-force login attempts automatically. | Limited. Not published. No built-in intrusion-prevention product. |
| Automatic free Let's Encrypt SSL | Yes. Every site, automatically. | Yes. Every app, automatically, through the Traefik-based proxy. |
| Vulnerability scanning | Limited. A $2/site add-on. | Limited. Not published. |
| WordPress core-file integrity monitor | Yes. Verifies WordPress core files against checksums. | No. Not applicable — Dokploy has no concept of WordPress core files to verify. |
| Full-site backup (files and database together) | Yes. One backup covers the whole site, files and database, and restores as one. | Limited. Both are covered, but as two separate schedules — database backups to S3 and volume backups are set up and run apart. |
| Incremental site backup | Yes. Yes. Restore granularity without a full copy each time. | No. No — database backups are cron-scheduled full dumps. |
| Scheduled automated database backups | Yes. Included, alongside full-site backups. | Yes. Cron-scheduled dumps to S3-compatible storage. |
| Backup restore | Yes. One click, from the panel, for the whole site. | Limited. Databases restore from S3 backups; volume archives are handled separately. |
What Happens After WordPress Is Installed
Dokploy installs WordPress in one click, same as xCloud. The difference is everything that happens next: updates, staging, backups scoped to a site.
| WordPress management | xCloud | Dokploy |
|---|---|---|
| Day-to-day WordPress work | ||
| WordPress install | Yes. One click, as a managed, WordPress-aware site. | Limited. One click, as one generic template among 518+. Nothing about it is WordPress-aware afterward. |
| Theme, plugin and core update manager | Yes. Managed from the panel, across every site. | No. Not offered. Updates happen inside the container, by hand. |
| One-click staging | Yes. One click, on the same server or another. | No. Not WordPress-aware. Preview deployments exist for code, not for a WordPress site's content and database. |
| Staging with push/pull | Yes. Promote a tested change rather than redoing it by hand. | No. Not offered. |
| Blueprints — reusable site templates | Yes. Save a site setup and stamp it out repeatedly. | No. Not offered. A Docker Compose file is the closest equivalent, written by hand. |
| 1-click magic login to wp-admin | Yes. Into any site's admin, from the panel. | No. Not offered. |
| WordPress Multisite support | Yes. Sub-domain and sub-folder, supported. | Limited. Not published as a supported configuration. |
Refunds, Add-Ons and the Bill You Did Not Expect
What the price does after the first month, and what is not in it. Two boxes below: what each side charges extra for, and what stays free.
Refunds and cancellation
xCloud- Yes. 14-day money-back guarantee
- Yes. Cancel any time, no lock-in contract
Dokploy- Yes. Self-hosted route: free forever, nothing to refund
- Limited. Dokploy Cloud offers a 7-day free trial; its refund terms are not published — confirm on their own site
What costs extra
xCloud- Limited. Vulnerability scanning: a $2/site add-on
- Yes. Migration, team roles and white-labelling: included, not add-ons
- Limited. Your cloud provider's own bill, on the bring-your-own-server route. That line is not ours
Dokploy- Limited. Self-hosting Dokploy's own updates and uptime is on you — not a fee, but a real cost
- Limited. Fine-grained RBAC, SSO and white-labelling are Enterprise-tier, priced on request
- Limited. Dokploy Cloud's fee scales per connected server
The full table
Every xCloud and Dokploy Feature, Side by Side
Every published feature, side by side. 63 of 84 differ.
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| xCloud | Dokploy | |
|---|---|---|
| What each platform is | ||
| Product category | WordPress hosting control panel | Self-hostable app deployment platform (PaaS) |
| WordPress-aware (updates, staging, backups scoped to a site) | Yes | No |
| Runs arbitrary Docker Compose applications | Yes | Yes |
| Root access to the underlying server | Yes | Yes |
| Platform floor before your apps run | Sized to what you deploy | 2 GB RAM and 30 GB disk, documented minimum |
| Plans and what they cost | ||
| Self-hosted / bring-your-own-server route | Free, 1 server, 10 sites; then $3–5/server | Free forever, unlimited servers and sites (open-source build) |
| Managed dashboard fee, 1 server | Free | $4.50/mo (Dokploy Cloud Hobby, single user) |
| Managed dashboard fee, up to 3 servers | $15/mo ($5/server) | $15/mo (Startup, unlimited users) |
| Managed dashboard fee, 5 servers | $25/mo ($5/server) | Startup from $15/mo + $4.50 per extra server |
| Managed dashboard fee, 10+ servers | $40/mo ($4/server) | Enterprise — custom pricing |
| What the dashboard fee buys | A managed panel; the server is billed by your cloud provider on the BYOS route, or bundled on a managed plan | A managed, hosted Dokploy Cloud dashboard; the servers you connect are still billed by your own cloud provider |
| Fully managed plan (xCloud provisions the server too) | Yes | No |
| Money-back guarantee | 14 days | 7-day free trial; no refund policy published |
| Deployment and stack | ||
| Deploy from a Git push | Yes | Yes |
| Pull-request preview deployments | — | Yes |
| One-click WordPress install | Yes | Partial |
| Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go and other non-PHP app hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Web server | NGINX and OpenLiteSpeed | Traefik (reverse proxy / ingress), with Let's Encrypt per domain |
| ARM and x86 servers | Yes | — |
| Any Ubuntu server, or your own cloud provider account | Yes | Yes |
| WordPress management | ||
| Theme, plugin and core update manager | Yes | No |
| One-click staging | Yes | No |
| Staging with push/pull | Yes | No |
| Blueprints — reusable site templates | Yes | No |
| 1-click magic login to wp-admin | Yes | No |
| WordPress Multisite support | Yes | — |
| Clone a site to the same or another server | Yes | — |
| WP-CLI | Yes | — |
| Databases | ||
| One-click database provisioning | Yes | Yes |
| Supported database engines | MySQL/MariaDB, managed for WordPress | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis (and libsql) |
| External / remote database support | Yes | Yes |
| Redis / object caching | Yes | Yes |
| Security | ||
| 7G / 8G firewall rule sets | Yes | No |
| Fail2Ban integration | Yes | — |
| Automatic free Let's Encrypt SSL | Yes | Yes |
| Custom SSL/TLS certificates | Yes | Yes |
| Vulnerability scanning | Add-on, $2/site | — |
| WordPress core-file integrity monitor | Yes | No |
| Backups and migration | ||
| Full-site backup (files and database together) | Yes | Separate schedules — database backups to S3 and volume backups are configured and run apart |
| Incremental site backup | Yes | No |
| Scheduled automated database backups | Yes | Yes |
| Scheduled application file / volume backups | Yes | Yes |
| Backup restore | Yes | Databases restore from S3 backups; volume archives handled separately |
| Built-in bulk site and server migration | Yes | No |
| cPanel migration path | Yes | No |
| Team, support and business model | ||
| Team accounts | Yes | Yes |
| Role-based / granular team permissions | Yes | Admin/Developer roles on the Startup tier; fine-grained RBAC is an Enterprise-tier feature |
| Live chat support | Yes | — |
| Community support (forum / Discord) | Yes | Yes |
| Email support | Yes | Paid Cloud / Enterprise tiers |
| White-label reseller programme with your own billing | Yes | White-labelling on Enterprise; no reseller programme with your own billing |
| Open source | Partially — some server-agnostic tooling is open source | Yes |
| You maintain the panel's own updates and uptime (self-hosted route) | No | Yes |
| AI and agent control | ||
| MCP server — drive servers and sites from Claude, Cursor or any AI agent | Yes | Yes |
| Installable AI agent skills (servers, sites, WordPress, SSL, account) | Yes | No |
| AI bot blocker — block AI crawlers and scrapers at the server | Yes | — |
| Public REST API with scoped tokens | Yes | Yes |
| Security and WordPress integrity | ||
| Virtual patching for known vulnerabilities (Site Security PRO) | Add-on, $2/site | — |
| WordPress integrity monitor — verifies core files against checksums | Yes | — |
| Custom security headers (HSTS, CSP) from the panel | Yes | — |
| HTTP basic auth and per-site IP allow/deny | Yes | — |
| SSH lockdown — restrict SSH to trusted IPs, custom port | Yes | — |
| Performance and caching | ||
| Edge full-page cache on a global PoP network | Yes | — |
| Cloudflare Enterprise (330+ PoPs, Enterprise WAF) | Add-on, $5/domain | — |
| HTTP/3 (QUIC) and Brotli compression, one click | Yes | — |
| Per-site PHP-FPM worker tuning and PHP extension manager | Yes | — |
| Auto-healing — restarts MySQL, NGINX, Redis or PHP if it stops | Yes | — |
| MySQL/MariaDB auto-tuning and OPcache control | Yes | — |
| Monitoring and observability | ||
| Broken link monitoring with one-click 301 redirect | Yes | No |
| Site Insights — PHP, MySQL and traffic analytics per site | Yes | — |
| Scheduled PageSpeed / Core Web Vitals monitoring with history | Yes | — |
| Telegram alerts for site, server and team events | Yes | Yes |
| Native macOS menu-bar app (xCloud Pulse) | Yes | No |
| Developer and deployment | ||
| Browser SSH terminal and command runner | Yes | — |
| One-click deploy from Git with stack auto-detection | Yes | Yes |
| Docker and Docker Compose application hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Node.js, Laravel and Next.js hosting with queue workers | Yes | Yes |
| One-click app library | 308 apps | 518+ Docker service templates |
| Supervisor process management and site snapshots | Yes | — |
| Backups, migration and agency tooling | ||
| Off-site backups to your own S3, R2, Backblaze, Wasabi, Google Drive or pCloud | Yes | Yes |
| Full server clone and server-to-server migration | Yes | — |
| Branded client maintenance reports (PDF) | Yes | — |
| White-label reseller programme with Stripe billing and your own plans | Yes | — |
| Business mailboxes on your own domain | Add-on, $1/mo | — |
What people say about hosting WordPress on xCloud
In their own words, unedited.
xCloud works really well, I am surprised by its performance being this the release version, I have tried many paid platforms such as runcloud, cloudpages or serveravatar, as well as free platforms such as CyberPanel, CloudPanel or Hestia Control Panel and direct competitors such as SpinupWP and FlyWP. Of all those that I have tried, the platform that works best for WordPress is SpinupWP and I believe that xCloud can reach and surpass that development, its roadmap is promising. Congratulations to the xCloud team, I hope they become the leading platform in the segment, it has all the potential to achieve it!
Brian GeovannyI've been with runcloud for the last 3 years. However, after trying xcloud for the last month, I'm switching over. They are on a roll with their setup.
Kevin PinedaI'm moving my servers to xCloud, a cloud control panel by M Asif Rahman and the WPDeveloper team. Their roadmap looks interesting and no, there are no team mates nor API limits with xCloud! #xCloud #wordpress #hosting
Leo KooHow Cloud Nine Web Elevated Client Experience While Streamlining Hosting Operations using xCloud
Ed EllinghamxCloud is like having an expert server team on call — without the big agency costs. It's given me back my time and given my clients peace of mind. Highly recommended for freelancers and small teams who want reliable performance and security.
Dumitru ButucelxCloud isn't just a solution. It's like one of that friend who got your back when you screw things up pretty bad.
Waqar AhmedTrust me when I say, once people explore the potential of xCloud they gonna switch from other panels, just keep delivering the best tech, lots of love for the team 😍😍
Rahul SinghSo far my experience has been smooth like silk. I didn't imagine that configuring and managing a VPS would be so easy. As of today, I have deployed 8 sites. The support is good, and they treat users with respect, even if they ask stupid questions (myself included). For the future, I hope for greater flexibility in scheduled backups and more comprehensive and consistent documentation. I'm sure that within a few months, xCloud will become the leader in its segment. This community is amazing, and the Staff here is super helpful.
Massimo VillaCame from cloudways then to runcloud then to xcloud. Looks like I'm staying here.
Gerson ElI've recently taken all of my Vultr-hosted sites and gotten rid of cPanel for them to substitute it with xCloud. I have to say, I'm really impressed with xCloud so far! The interface is definitely the standout feature for me.
Tony LewisI came from Cloudways and won't go back. Highly impressed with xCloud. Glad I gave them a chance.
Jared McDowellI like xCloud better than RunCloud, but one thing I'll point out is that some years ago RunCloud was hungry for business, the support was outstanding, and the community was active and helped each other. Maybe it was sold, there was a change in management, or they stopped being hungry, but the quality of the RunCloud offering declined and it hasn't been moving forward quickly. My point is that currently the xCloud team has the edge and it is theirs to keep or lose
David McCanHow Kevin Heinrichs Cut Hosting Costs by 84% While Running WooCommerce & Node.js Sites Efficiently
Kevin HeinrichsI had 150 sites on cloudways and am in the process of moving them to xcloud. Much faster and better priced.
Dan SpinozaDear xCloud Team, I have been using xCloud for some time now and am genuinely impressed with its capabilities and the flexibility it offers by allowing users to bring their own VPS for management. It's a fantastic service, and my experience so far has been very positive. Successful migrated 5 sites on a single server. Xcloud migration tool worked great. There were few hiccups with security plugin like MalCare but disabling the plugin prior to migration worked just fine.
Rahil MaknojiaCame from runcloud. Tried xcloud and never came back.
Karl FanegaHow Advanced Web Strategies Saved Over $2,000 & Recovered 56 Hours per Month Managing 70+ Client Websites
Gary MoodyxCloud gave me what no other hosting platform could: the flexibility of a VPS with the convenience of managed WordPress. As a solo founder running an entire business on one server, that combination is an important unfair advantage.
Jorge de los Reyes MartínezI use Server Avatar and xCloud and I'll sooner use xCloud than Server Avatar personally.
Jay PaganoHow Newman Web Solutions Ensured Perfect Uptime and Seamless Scaling For 120+ WordPress Sites with xCloud
Lori NewmanI too have moved over to xCloud. It's pretty sweet. One click n8n and uptime Kuma apps
John ApertureI went from Cloudways to xCloud. No intention on switching in the foreseeable future.
Blaine MooreKeep comparing
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Server control panels
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A WordPress-specialist control panel for your own servers.
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A cloud control panel for self-managed WordPress servers.
Considering a switch from Dokploy?
Ready To Try xCloud Instead?
Start free, bring your own server or ours, and move when you are ready. No contract, no migration fee, root access either way.
- Dokploy's dashboard is free forever if you self-host it; xCloud's managed plans start at $5/month with the server included.
- WordPress-specific staging, updates and blueprints
- Files and database backed up together, and restored in one click
- Bulk migration included on every plan
- The 7G/8G firewall and Fail2Ban, configured for you
- Live chat support on every plan
xCloud vs Dokploy: Frequently Asked Questions
Direct answers to what people ask before choosing between xCloud and Dokploy.
What is the difference between xCloud and Dokploy?
Dokploy is a general Docker deployment platform; xCloud is a WordPress-specific hosting control panel.
Dokploy lets you self-host almost anything Docker can package, including WordPress as one generic template among 518+, and it manages several servers from one panel. xCloud is built around WordPress specifically: it knows what a site is, so it can offer staging push/pull, core and plugin updates, incremental backups and bulk migration that a general platform has no reason to build.
Is Dokploy free?
Yes, the open-source, self-hosted build is free forever, at any scale.
Dokploy's README describes it as "a free, self-hostable Platform as a Service". You install and run it yourself, on your own server, with no limit on servers, sites or deployments. Dokploy Cloud, a managed hosted dashboard, is the paid option: Hobby is $4.50/month per server, Startup is $15/month for up to three servers, and Enterprise is priced on request. One caveat worth knowing: the repository is open source except a /proprietary directory under a source-available licence (DSAL) whose production use needs a commercial agreement.
Is xCloud cheaper than Dokploy?
It depends on the route: Dokploy's self-hosted dashboard is cheaper (free, always); xCloud's free tier is cheaper for a single managed server.
xCloud is free for one server and ten sites, then $5/server at 2–5 servers, $4/server at 6–10 and $3/server at 11 or more. Dokploy Cloud starts at $4.50/month for one server (single user), or $15/month for up to three servers with unlimited users, with larger fleets priced as Enterprise. Dokploy's self-hosted route beats both on price, at $0 regardless of scale, if you are willing to maintain the dashboard yourself.
Does Dokploy support WordPress?
Yes, as a one-click template, not as a managed product.
Dokploy can deploy WordPress in one click from its template catalogue, but nothing about the platform is WordPress-aware afterward: no core, theme or plugin update manager, no WordPress-specific staging, no magic login, no 7G/8G firewall rules.
Which is better for WordPress?
xCloud, for any WordPress-specific need. Dokploy, if WordPress is one app among several you run.
xCloud automates the WordPress-specific work: updates, staging, backups scoped to a site, and migration. Dokploy treats a WordPress install the same as any other Docker container, which is a real advantage if you are also running non-WordPress apps across several servers, and a real gap if WordPress is the whole job.
Does Dokploy have staging environments?
Not a WordPress-aware one. Dokploy supports pull-request preview deployments for a general app pipeline instead.
That is a different feature: a preview deployment spins up a temporary environment for a code change. It is not the same as xCloud's one-click WordPress staging with push/pull between staging and production.
How many servers can Dokploy manage, and who operates them?
Many, from one panel — but each attached server is yours to operate.
Dokploy manages remote servers over SSH and can join servers into a Docker Swarm cluster, all from a single dashboard; multi-server management is its headline. Every one of those servers is yours to patch, back up and answer for. xCloud also manages many servers from one panel, but each is provisioned, patched and backed up by xCloud.
How much server does Dokploy need?
Its docs ask for at least 2 GB of RAM and 30 GB of disk per box, before your own apps.
Dokploy's installation documentation states a minimum of 2 GB RAM and 30 GB disk, and the one-line installer sets up Docker, initialises Docker Swarm and configures Traefik, taking ports 80, 443 and 3000. On xCloud there is no fixed platform floor — the server is sized to what you actually deploy.
Can I use my own VPS with Dokploy or xCloud?
Yes, with both. Neither product sells its own servers as the only option.
Both connect to any server you already pay for, on Hetzner, DigitalOcean, AWS, GCP or elsewhere, over SSH, with root access. xCloud also offers a fully managed plan that bundles the server; self-hosted Dokploy and its Cloud tier always require you to bring your own.
Does Dokploy offer team permissions?
Yes — role-based access, with Admin and Developer roles, and fine-grained RBAC on the Enterprise tier.
Dokploy has role-based access control: the Startup tier documents Admin and Developer roles, and fine-grained RBAC is listed as an Enterprise-tier feature. What differs is that granular, per-server scoping is reserved for that top tier, whereas xCloud's team roles are granular and included on every plan.
Can I migrate from Dokploy to xCloud?
Yes, though it is a manual move rather than a one-click transfer, since the two platforms structure sites differently.
A WordPress site deployed on Dokploy is a Docker container with a database attached; moving it means exporting the files and database and importing them through xCloud's WordPress migration tooling. There is no automated Dokploy-specific import.
Dokploy or Coolify — and how does xCloud compare to each?
Dokploy and Coolify are close cousins: open-source, self-hostable Docker PaaS with the same rough server floor.
Both deploy Dockerised apps and Compose stacks from Git behind Traefik, with databases, backups and one-click templates. Against either, xCloud's difference is the same: it is a WordPress-specific managed service, so the WordPress-aware tooling and the servers under the deploys are somebody else's job.