A Kamal alternative with the rest built in
Keep your images and your servers. Get a dashboard, backups, metrics and alerts around every deploy.
What you get moving from Kamal
Kamal is a free, open-source CLI from 37signals that deploys containers over SSH. Serversinc deploys the same containers and runs the backups, databases and alerts around them.
The whole team can see it
Servers, applications, deploys and logs, without handing out SSH keys.
Same images, checked rollouts
Deploy any tag from any registry, gated on a health check.
Scoped deploy triggers
One key and secret per application. No SSH keys in your pipeline.
Managed, not accessories
Provision Postgres, MySQL or MariaDB with users, schemas and grants.
Scheduled to your bucket
Database and volume backups to S3, R2, B2 or Spaces, with retention.
Metrics and alerts
Server metrics and disk insights, sent to email, Slack or a webhook.
The bill, side by side
Kamal is free and open source. You pay for your servers and any registry, monitoring or backup tools you add.
- Software
- Kamal $0 Serversinc £5/mo for three servers, £2 per server after
- Dashboard
- Kamal None; a CLI and a YAML file Serversinc Included
- Backups and alerts
- Kamal Bring your own tools Serversinc Included
- Where it runs
- Kamal On the machine that runs the deploy command Serversinc Hosted; deploy from the dashboard, API, CI or MCP
Prices checked on 2026-09-27, in each vendor's own currency.
From Kamal to Serversinc
Run both side by side. Cut over when the new deploy is green.
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01
Import your hosts
Run the install command on each server in your deploy.yml.
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02
Create image applications
Use the image and registry credentials from your Kamal config. Set env vars in bulk from your secrets.
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03
Replace accessories
Provision databases on Serversinc and import a dump, or run other accessories as image applications.
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04
Switch CI and DNS
Swap kamal deploy for a deploy trigger call, confirm the health check passes, then move the domain.
Switching from Kamal
Bring your first server
£5 a month covers your first three servers. Every server after that adds £2.