The self-hosted Koyeb alternative you own
AppCrane runs the same containers on a server you own, always on, with rollback to a kept release and a per-user audit trail, and no usage meter.
Koyeb deploys apps and services on its own cloud, billed by the second on top of a monthly plan fee. In February 2026 it agreed to join Mistral AI; it says it keeps operating without disruption, and new sign-ups now need a paid plan.
| AppCrane | Koyeb | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | A server you own — any Ubuntu box | Koyeb's cloud |
| Where code & data live | On that server; AppCrane sends one anonymous daily install check-in (counts and version, no app data), off with APPCRANE_CHECKIN=off | On Koyeb's infrastructure |
| Pricing model | Free and open source on a server you already pay for — no per-seat, per-request or bandwidth metering | Monthly plan fee (Pro, Scale or Enterprise) plus compute billed by the second |
| Deploys | GitHub-native push-to-deploy, zero-downtime releases (start new, health check, swap, drain old), rollback to a kept release that restarts its image instead of rebuilding | Managed build and deploy pipeline |
| Agent-native (MCP) | 74 tools on an MCP server on your own box — your AI agent deploys, sets env, reads logs, rolls back and promotes, and each call is audited against its user | Koyeb's MCP server: apps, services, deployments with build and runtime logs, instances |
| Single sign-on | SAML 2.0, OIDC and SCIM in the AGPL-3.0 build, nothing to activate | SSO on the Enterprise plan |
| Isolation & TLS | Per-app Docker containers, auto-HTTPS via Caddy | Provider-managed runtime |
| Openness | Open source (AGPL-3.0), standard Docker + Caddy — you run the control plane | Vendor-operated managed service |
| Audit | Per-user audit: who deployed what, which environment, when — stored on your server | Audit trail on the Enterprise plan |
Koyeb is a good fit when you want someone else to own the servers. Choose AppCrane when the apps are agent-built, the agent should do the deploying, and your code, data and audit trail should stay on infrastructure you own. It’s open source — read every line.