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Nixploy vs CapRover
Both are Swarm-native and both are free. CapRover is the smaller, simpler tool; Nixploy carries the operations surface — backups, monitoring, teams, audit — that CapRover leaves to you.
Every claim about CapRover below links to where it was read, and was read rather than remembered — last checked 18 September 2026. These projects ship weekly, so if something here is out of date, tell us and it gets fixed. We have not included opinions about anybody's reliability or security history.
What CapRover is
One of the oldest projects in this category, and the most deliberately simple. Docker Swarm underneath with nginx as the reverse proxy and Let's Encrypt for certificates, one-click apps, CLI and webhook deploys. Free forever, with no paid tier at all.
- GitHub stars
- 15.2k · Nixploy has 3
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
Where they differ
Orchestration
- CapRover
- Docker Swarm, with nginx as the reverse proxy and Let's Encrypt for TLS. source
- Nixploy
- Docker Swarm, with Traefik v3 as the reverse proxy and Let's Encrypt for TLS.
Price
- CapRover
- Free forever, Apache-2.0, no paid tier. source
- Nixploy
- The same.
Deploys
- CapRover
- CLI, dashboard, webhooks and Git workflow integration; one-click apps for common services. source
- Nixploy
- The same sources plus Compose stacks as first-class services, PR previews with a fork gate, rollbacks that restore config and environment, and deploy-any-ref.
Size
- CapRover
- 15.2k stars, active since 2017. source
- Nixploy
- 3 stars. New.
Pick CapRover if
- It is simpler, and simple is a feature. If you want one box, a handful of apps and nothing to learn, CapRover asks less of you than we do.
- Eight years of production use and a large body of community answers.
- Lower resource use, because it does less.
Pick Nixploy if
- Encrypted database and volume backups on a schedule, to S3 or disk, with verified restores — and a self-backup of the panel itself.
- Live logs, a web terminal, 48 hours of metrics, alert rules, uptime probes and a per-service event timeline that records OOM kills and restarts.
- Organizations, a role ladder, capability overlays, teams, SSO and an audit trail with CSV export.
- A REST API, a CLI, GitOps from a nixploy.yaml and an MCP endpoint for AI agents.
Try it on one box
Nixploy installs alongside nothing and takes one command. Point it at a spare VPS before you move anything real.
install.sh
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bablilayoub/nixploy/main/install.sh | sudo bash