Comparisons / Dockge

Comebye vs. Dockge

If you're one admin on one box, Dockge might be all you need.

Dockge, from Uptime Kuma's creator, is a fast, free, MIT-licensed compose stack editor: interactive compose editing, a run-command-to-compose converter, and (since 1.4) basic multi-host agents. It's built for an individual operator, not team governance — by its own maintainers' framing. That's exactly the gap Comebye fills once you're more than one admin.

Choose Dockge if: you're a solo homelabber or single admin who wants a fast, no-nonsense compose editor and doesn't need multi-user access control. Choose Comebye if: more than one person touches the fleet and you need RBAC, SSO, audit logging, or a safe promote/rollback workflow between environments.

Feature comparison

 ComebyeDockge
Pricefree ≤5 nodes, paid tiers abovefree, MIT license
Target userteams governing a shared fleeta single operator, per its own docs
Multi-user RBACyes, free tiernone built in
SSO / OIDCyes, free tierno
Audit loggingyes, free tierno
Multi-host managementyes, core to the productyes, since v1.4, via agents
Staged promote + health gate + rollbackyes, free tierno
Interactive compose editor / terminalroadmapyes, a core strength

Dockge figures reflect its public GitHub repository as of this writing — verify directly at github.com/louislam/dockge before quoting.

Where each one wins

Comebye

  • RBAC, SSO, and audit logging built for more than one admin
  • Health-gated promote and one-click rollback across environments
  • Encrypted secrets management, not plaintext compose env vars
  • Built for the moment your fleet stops being one person's homelab

Dockge

  • Genuinely free, MIT-licensed, no strings
  • Fast, focused, interactive compose editing — a real strength
  • Lightweight — no RBAC/audit machinery you don't need solo
  • A shipping, widely-used tool (22k+ GitHub stars) today

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