Choosing a cloud-hosting tool means comparing self-hosted PaaS platforms, server panels, Kubernetes services, and specialized hosting systems while judging how actively each project is maintained. For August 2026, the ToolVitals dataset provides the ranked scores and health signals, while the supplied project descriptions provide context for each tool’s focus.
The ranking includes OSI-approved OSS tools only. Tools are ordered by ToolVitals score descending, then by health and shipping for equal composite scores. GitHub stars are context only and do not determine the ordering.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Backend.AI | OSI-approved OSS | LGPL-3.0 | 100 | 100 | 667 | 100 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | Coolify | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 100 | 100 | 60927 | 100 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | Frappe Cloud | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 100 | 100 | 558 | 100 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | Hestia Control Panel | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 100 | 100 | 4483 | 100 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 5 | Olares | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 100 | 100 | 5235 | 100 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 6 | Dokku | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 99 | 32111 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 7 | Otomi | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 98 | 99 | 2258 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 8 | Spinifex | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 98 | 99 | 81 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 9 | Temps | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 98 | 99 | 670 | 98 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 10 | Payara | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-2.0 | 98 | 96 | 919 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 11 | Reviactyl | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 98 | 96 | 154 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 12 | QuickStack | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 95 | 95 | 353 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 13 | Game Server | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 93 | 95 | 32 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 14 | OpenRun | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 92 | 98 | 941 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 15 | ServerKit | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 92 | 98 | 881 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 16 | Ubicloud | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 95 | 90 | 12249 | 93 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 17 | GoDoxy | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 92 | 95 | 4102 | 93 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 18 | Namespace | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 96 | 87 | 164 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 19 | Qovery | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 96 | 86 | 2458 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 20 | CapRover | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 93 | 91 | 15137 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 21 | Websoft9 | OSI-approved OSS | LGPL-3.0 | 89 | 93 | 2127 | 91 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 22 | Canine | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 90 | 88 | 2916 | 89 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 23 | dockpanel | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 88 | 90 | 906 | 89 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 24 | Convox | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 88 | 85 | 177 | 87 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 25 | SellYourSaas | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 88 | 85 | 289 | 87 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 26 | YunoHost | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 89 | 78 | 2967 | 85 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 27 | Cipi | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 80 | 90 | 1131 | 84 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 28 | Uncloud | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 83 | 69 | 5464 | 77 | 🟢 Good |
| 29 | Runtipi | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 69 | 47 | 9629 | 60 | 🟢 Good |
| 30 | Juno | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 66 | 45 | 419 | 58 | 🟡 Fair |
| 31 | PinMe | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 59 | 40 | 3735 | 51 | 🟡 Fair |
| 32 | OpenResty Manager | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 57 | 34 | 1445 | 48 | 🟡 Fair |
| 33 | dyrector.io | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 55 | 25 | 1848 | 43 | 🟡 Fair |
| 34 | Kubero | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 48 | 18 | 4392 | 36 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 35 | Erda | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 48 | 17 | 2750 | 36 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 36 | KubeNova | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 40 | 30 | 86 | 36 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 37 | Froxlor | OSI-approved OSS | LGPL-2.1 | 47 | 16 | 1750 | 35 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 38 | KubeSphere | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 42 | 19 | 17028 | 33 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 39 | OpenFaaS | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 32 | 16 | 26231 | 26 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 40 | Gitflare | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 20 | 0 | 224 | 12 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 41 | Mist | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 12 | 0 | 64 | 7 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 42 | FastCP | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 6 | 2 | 59 | 4 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 43 | Nixopus | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 6 | 2 | 1461 | 4 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 44 | PteroCA Panel | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 6 | 2 | 105 | 4 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 45 | Usulnet | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 6 | 2 | 126 | 4 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 46 | Cloudness | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 5 | 0 | 95 | 3 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 47 | Genezio | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 2 | 0 | 486 | 1 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 48 | Sidekick | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 2 | 0 | 7595 | 1 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 49 | Locker | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 0 | 0 | 77 | 0 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 50 | Navarcos | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
Top 3 Highlights
Ranked #1, Backend.AI has a ToolVitals score of 100, with health and shipping scores of 100. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS and uses the LGPL-3.0 license. The supplied description identifies it as a container-based computing cluster platform for computing and ML frameworks, diverse programming languages, and heterogeneous accelerators such as CUDA GPU, ROCm GPU, Gaudi NPU, Google TPU, and GraphCore IPU.
Ranked #2, Coolify has a ToolVitals score of 100, with health and shipping scores of 100. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS and uses the Apache-2.0 license. Its supplied description presents it as a self-hostable PaaS for deploying static sites, databases, full-stack applications, and 280+ one-click services on users’ own servers.
Ranked #3, Frappe Cloud has a ToolVitals score of 100, with health and shipping scores of 100. It is labeled OSI-approved OSS and uses the AGPL-3.0 license. The supplied description focuses on full service cloud hosting for the Frappe stack and identifies the project as powering Frappe Cloud.
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