Yes. CapRover is open source under Apache 2.0. Serversinc costs £5 a month for three servers and includes the hosting, backups and alerts you'd otherwise run yourself.

CapRover vs Serversinc

CapRover is a free PaaS you run on your own Swarm. Serversinc hosts the control plane and adds backups and alerts.

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Checked against CapRover's public pricing and docs on 2026-09-27.

The Serversinc dashboard with servers, applications and recent deployments

What CapRover is, and what Serversinc is

Both get your apps running. Here is how each one does it.

CapRover is an open-source PaaS. You install it on a server, optionally join more nodes into a Docker Swarm, and deploy apps from the CLI, a Git webhook or a one-click catalogue. HTTPS through Let's Encrypt is built in. It's free, and you run the control plane.

Serversinc hosts the control plane and puts an agent on each server. It deploys from GitHub or any registry with health-checked rollouts, and adds managed databases, scheduled backups to your bucket, metrics and alerts. You pay £5 a month for three servers and £2 for each after.

What the bill looks like

CapRover is free under the Apache 2.0 licence. There's no hosted version, so you run the control plane on your own server.

Software: CapRover $0 Serversinc £5/mo for three servers, £2 per server after
Control plane: CapRover Runs on your main server; you update and back it up Serversinc Hosted by Serversinc
Database backups: CapRover Bring your own tooling Serversinc Included
Alerts: CapRover Bring your own tooling Serversinc Included

Feature	CapRover	Serversinc
Software	$0	£5/mo for three servers, £2 per server after
Control plane	Runs on your main server; you update and back it up	Hosted by Serversinc
Database backups	Bring your own tooling	Included
Alerts	Bring your own tooling	Included

List prices in each vendor's own currency. Server costs from your cloud provider are billed separately on both sides unless stated.

Side by side

Deploys, databases, backups, alerts and automation.

Sources: CapRover CLI upload, Git webhooks, Dockerfile or captain-definition, images Serversinc GitHub App builds and Docker images from any registry
One-click apps: CapRover A large community catalogue, including databases Serversinc A curated catalogue of single-container templates
Deploys: CapRover Swarm service updates; roll back to an earlier image version Serversinc Rolling or recreate, gated on a health check, with rollback when it fails
Multi-server: CapRover Docker Swarm cluster with instance counts per app Serversinc Each application runs on one server you choose
Databases: CapRover One-click database containers Serversinc Postgres, MySQL or MariaDB with users, schemas, grants and password rotation
Backups: CapRover Backs up CapRover's own config, not app data Serversinc Scheduled database and volume backups to S3, R2, B2 or Spaces
Monitoring: CapRover NetData on the server Serversinc Server metrics and disk insights, to email, Slack or a webhook
Automation: CapRover CLI and an HTTP API Serversinc REST API, per-application deploy triggers and an MCP server

Feature	CapRover	Serversinc
Sources	CLI upload, Git webhooks, Dockerfile or captain-definition, images	GitHub App builds and Docker images from any registry
One-click apps	A large community catalogue, including databases	A curated catalogue of single-container templates
Deploys	Swarm service updates; roll back to an earlier image version	Rolling or recreate, gated on a health check, with rollback when it fails
Multi-server	Docker Swarm cluster with instance counts per app	Each application runs on one server you choose
Databases	One-click database containers	Postgres, MySQL or MariaDB with users, schemas, grants and password rotation
Backups	Backs up CapRover's own config, not app data	Scheduled database and volume backups to S3, R2, B2 or Spaces
Monitoring	NetData on the server	Server metrics and disk insights, to email, Slack or a webhook
Automation	CLI and an HTTP API	REST API, per-application deploy triggers and an MCP server

Both are good tools. Pick the one that fits.

Where each one is the stronger choice, stated plainly.

Pick CapRover if

You want a free control plane on your own hardware.
You want a large catalogue of one-click apps.
You scale apps across a Swarm cluster with instance counts.
You're happy to run backups and alerting yourself.

Pick Serversinc if

You want a hosted control plane you never patch or restore.
You want scheduled database and volume backups to your own bucket.
You want alerts when a disk fills, sent where your team already looks.
You want a team dashboard, 2FA and an activity log.