Dokku vs Tau
Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.
Comparison spaces
Updated
Comparison facts
Platform
Hosting model
Self-Hosted
Supported
Self-Hosted
Supported
Open source / license
MIT
Open source / license
bsd-3-clause
Services
CDN
Not supported
CDN
Supported
Functions
Not supported
Functions
Supported
Key-Value Store
Not supported
Key-Value Store
Supported
Managed Databases
Supported
Managed Databases
Not 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
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
Kubernetes
Supported
Kubernetes
Not supported
Local Emulator
Not supported
Local Emulator
Supported
Self-hosted
Supported
Self-hosted
Not supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Not supported
Serverless (Managed Runtime)
Supported
Runtimes
.NET Runtime
Supported
.NET Runtime
Not supported
Custom Runtime
Supported
Custom Runtime
Not supported
JVM
Supported
JVM
Not supported
Node.js
Supported
Node.js
Not supported
WebAssembly
Not supported
WebAssembly
Supported
Languages
C#
Supported
C#
Not supported
Clojure
Supported
Clojure
Not supported
Elixir
Supported
Elixir
Not supported
Go
Supported
Go
Supported
Java
Supported
Java
Not supported
JavaScript
Supported
JavaScript
Supported
PHP
Supported
PHP
Not supported
Python
Supported
Python
Supported
Ruby
Supported
Ruby
Not supported
Rust
Not supported
Rust
Supported
Scala
Supported
Scala
Not supported
TypeScript
Supported
TypeScript
Supported
Frameworks
Django
Supported
Django
Unknown
Express.js
Supported
Express.js
Unknown
FastAPI
Supported
FastAPI
Unknown
Next.js
Supported
Next.js
Unknown
Ruby on Rails
Supported
Ruby on Rails
Unknown
Spring Boot
Supported
Spring Boot
Unknown
Pricing
Billing basis
Plan based
Plan based
Software charge
Dokku Core and Dokku Pro run on customer-managed servers; infrastructure, storage, transfer, backups, monitoring, and administration are separate.
Tau is free to self-host; users fund compute, storage, networking, monitoring, backups, and operations.
Starting price
$849 one-time
Unknown
Free entry / commitment
Free plan
Free plan
Infrastructure & Availability
Infrastructure provider
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- DigitalOcean
- Google Cloud Platform
- Any compatible Ubuntu or Debian server, virtual machine, dedicated server, or supported K3s cluster
- 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
- Microsoft Azure
- DigitalOcean
- Google Cloud Platform
- Any compatible Ubuntu or Debian server, virtual machine, dedicated server, or supported K3s cluster
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- DigitalOcean
- Customer-operated bare-metal, virtual-machine, sovereign-cloud, and edge infrastructure
Security & Compliance
Access & identity
Deployment Credentials
SSH public keys
Unknown
Access Control
Unknown
Auth service authentication, authorization, and repository-to-project mapping
Encryption & secrets
Secrets Management
Unknown
Deployment keys, webhook secrets, and X.509 certificates
Encryption in Transit
Unknown
Automatic Let's Encrypt certificates and authenticated encrypted node traffic