Platform Alternatives and Comparisons

Leaving a platform starts with a shortlist. Each article here compares the realistic alternatives for one product, from deployment platforms to error tracking and analytics, and says where the trade-offs sit.

28 posts ยท All head-to-head comparisons โ†’

15 min read
By David Viejo

Vercel Pro charges $20 per deploying seat plus usage. 2026 pricing for Temps, Railway, Render, Netlify, Cloudflare and more, compared feature by feature.

14 min read
By David Viejo

5 Coolify alternatives compared: Temps, Dokploy, CapRover, Dokku and Kamal. Coolify v4.4 added traffic analytics; only Temps adds error tracking and replay.

14 min read
By David Viejo

Nine Heroku alternatives ranked for 2026: Temps, Railway, Render, Fly.io, Coolify, Dokku, Dokploy, DO App Platform and Cloud Run, on price and migration.

14 min read
By David Viejo

Cloudflare Pages alternatives for Next.js in 2026, compared with Vercel, Netlify, Render and Railway โ€” plus a Workers free-tier reality check: 100K req/day.

14 min read
By David Viejo

Seven self-hosted deployment platforms compared: Temps, Coolify, Dokploy, CapRover, Kamal, Dokku and Portainer. Only Temps bundles analytics and replay.

15 min read
By David Viejo

PostHog alternatives for 2026: Temps, Umami, Matomo, OpenReplay, Plausible, Mixpanel, Amplitude and Clarity, compared on pricing, replay and self-hosting.

14 min read
By David Viejo

Dokploy alternatives for 2026: Temps, Coolify, CapRover, Dokku, Kamal and Easypanel, compared on licence, pricing, multi-server support and observability.

12 min read
By David Viejo

Coolify runs single-container Postgres; Temps adds pg_auto_failover HA, WAL-G backups and multi-node clustering. Coolify still wins on templates and community.

11 min read
By David Viejo

The 6 best self-hosted session replay tools in 2026: Temps, OpenReplay, rrweb, PostHog, Matomo and Highlight's open-source repo, compared on licence.

9 min read
By David Viejo

Best platforms for per-PR preview deployments in 2026: Temps, Vercel, Netlify, Railway, Render and Coolify compared on access control, idle cost and cleanup.

9 min read
By David Viejo

Cheapest Vercel Pro alternatives in 2026 with no per-seat fees: Temps (free to self-host), Railway ($20/mo per workspace), Netlify, Render and Cloudflare.

9 min read
By David Viejo

Error tracking without per-seat pricing: Temps, GlitchTip, self-hosted Sentry and Bugsink compared on cost as your team grows, and what each gives up.

14 min read
By David Viejo

Ten deployment platforms ranked for solo developers on price, deploy speed, free tier and lock-in. Temps bundles deploys and observability free to self-host.

15 min read
By David Viejo

How Temps resolves *.temps.local for HA databases and multi-node apps with a per-node Hickory resolver: an opt-in CoreDNS alternative without Kubernetes.

13 min read
By David Viejo

Six FullStory alternatives for session replay in 2026: Temps, OpenReplay, PostHog, LogRocket, Hotjar and Microsoft Clarity, compared on self-hosting.

13 min read
By David Viejo

Self-hosted Plausible alternatives for 2026: Temps, Umami, Matomo, PostHog, Rybbit, GoatCounter and Ackee compared on cost, cookies, scope and setup.

14 min read
By David Viejo

Sentry Team is $26/mo billed annually. Ten alternatives: self-hosted Temps, GlitchTip, SigNoz and HyperDX, plus SaaS Bugsnag, Rollbar and Honeybadger.

11 min read
By David Viejo

Coolify review 2026: v4.4 stable, 360+ templates, free under Apache 2.0. New proxy traffic analytics, but still no error tracking, session replay or uptime.

12 min read
By David Viejo

Set up preview environments for every pull request: a DIY webhook, Docker and Traefik pipeline, or one toggle in Temps. Compared with Coolify and Vercel.

14 min read
By David Viejo

Temps vs Coolify vs Netlify 2026: Netlify Pro is $20/mo per team; Coolify and Temps self-host free. See which bundles error tracking, replay and uptime.

12 min read
By David Viejo

Netlify alternatives for 2026: Pro is $20/mo flat, but bandwidth bills at ~$0.13/GB via credits. How Temps, Coolify, Dokploy and Railway compare on real cost.

11 min read
By David Viejo

Launch post: Temps runs git-push deploys plus analytics, session replay, error tracking and uptime monitoring on your own server, free under MIT / Apache 2.0.