Appliku vs Tau
Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.
Comparison space
Updated
Comparison facts
Platform
Hosting model
BYOC
Supported
BYOC
Not supported
Self-Hosted
Not supported
Self-Hosted
Supported
Open source / license
—
Open source / license
bsd-3-clause
Services
CDN
Not supported
CDN
Supported
Databases
Supported
Databases
Not supported
Functions
Not supported
Functions
Supported
Infrastructure Automation
Supported
Infrastructure Automation
Not supported
Key-Value Store
Not supported
Key-Value Store
Supported
Object Storage
Not supported
Object Storage
Supported
Queues
Not supported
Queues
Supported
Workloads
APIs
Supported
APIs
Supported
Backend Services
Supported
Backend Services
Supported
Background Workers
Supported
Background Workers
Supported
Real-Time Applications
Not supported
Real-Time Applications
Supported
Scheduled Jobs
Supported
Scheduled Jobs
Supported
Static Sites
Not supported
Static Sites
Supported
Web Applications
Supported
Web Applications
Supported
Capabilities
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
Supported
Zero-Downtime Application Deployments
Not recorded
Development & Execution
Deployment & packaging
Bare metal / VM
Not supported
Bare metal / VM
Supported
Docker / OCI
Supported
Docker / OCI
Not supported
Docker Swarm
Supported
Docker Swarm
Not supported
Local Emulator
Not supported
Local Emulator
Supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Not supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Supported
Runtimes
Custom Runtime
Supported
Custom Runtime
Not recorded
Node.js
Supported
Node.js
Not recorded
WebAssembly
Not recorded
WebAssembly
Supported
Languages
Go
Supported
Go
Supported
JavaScript
Supported
JavaScript
Supported
Python
Supported
Python
Supported
Ruby
Supported
Ruby
Not supported
Rust
Not supported
Rust
Supported
TypeScript
Supported
TypeScript
Supported
Frameworks
Django
Supported
Django
Unknown
FastAPI
Supported
FastAPI
Unknown
Next.js
Supported
Next.js
Unknown
Ruby on Rails
Supported
Ruby on Rails
Unknown
Pricing
Software charge
Unknown
Tau is free to self-host; users fund compute, storage, networking, monitoring, backups, and operations.
Free entry / commitment
Recurring free allowances
Free plan
Infrastructure & Availability
Infrastructure provider
- Amazon Web Services
- DigitalOcean
- Hetzner Cloud
- Any compatible Linux VPS or dedicated server
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- DigitalOcean
- Customer-operated bare-metal, virtual-machine, sovereign-cloud, and edge infrastructure
Supported providers
- Amazon Web Services
- DigitalOcean
- Hetzner Cloud
- Any compatible Linux VPS or dedicated server
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- DigitalOcean
- Customer-operated bare-metal, virtual-machine, sovereign-cloud, and edge infrastructure
Security & Compliance
Access & identity
Access Control
Owner, Admin, and Developer roles
Auth service authentication, authorization, and repository-to-project mapping
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
TOTP
Unknown
Encryption & secrets
Secrets Management
Masked application variables and encrypted cloud-provider credentials
Deployment keys, webhook secrets, and X.509 certificates
Encryption in Transit
Automatic Let's Encrypt certificates
Automatic Let's Encrypt certificates and authenticated encrypted node traffic