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Dokploy vs Hatchet

A side-by-side editorial comparison of Dokploy and Hatchet — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.

Dokploy vs Hatchet: at a glance

FeatureDokployHatchet
SectorInfra & APIsInfra & APIs
Velocity score6.36.3
Sparks · 30d00
Top themesself-hosted-paas, secrets-encryption, security-hardening, plan-limitsdurable execution, serverless, task queues, rate limiting
Last editorial update2mo ago15h ago
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What is Dokploy?

A self-hosted PaaS spending its releases on secrets, injection fixes and plan limits.

Dokploy cuts patch releases every one to two weeks, and the recent stream is dominated by hardening rather than features. v0.29.12 added AES-256-GCM encryption for environment variables at rest and made backups carry the full keyring; v0.29.13 closed an OS command injection in git clone across all providers. The newest tag says outright that it is bug fixes only. Alongside that, plan limits landed in v0.29.10.

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What is Hatchet?

Hatchet takes durable tasks serverless, with handlers for Cloudflare Workers, Vercel and Node.

Hatchet's new @hatchet-dev/serverless 0.1.0 runs tasks on Cloudflare Workers, Vercel and Node. An in-engine operator delivers them by signed POST or by an invocation websocket that also carries durable sleeps, waits and child runs. Around it, the engine shipped three patches in a day: DAG replays no longer take an advisory lock, worker shutdown now waits for durable tasks, and status queries use partition pruning. The API now declares 429 with Retry-After on every authenticated call.

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Dokploy vs Hatchet: editorial side-by-side

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Dokploy
INFRA · APIS
6.3

A self-hosted PaaS spending its releases on secrets, injection fixes and plan limits.

◆ Current state

Dokploy cuts patch releases every one to two weeks, and the recent stream is dominated by hardening rather than features. v0.29.12 added AES-256-GCM encryption for environment variables at rest and made backups carry the full keyring; v0.29.13 closed an OS command injection in git clone across all providers. The newest tag says outright that it is bug fixes only. Alongside that, plan limits landed in v0.29.10.

◆ Where it's heading

The direction is a self-hosted platform trying to earn production trust: encrypted secrets, injection fixes, a pinned install script tied to each release, and Postgres query rewrites to stop hitting the 100-argument limit on rollbacks, schedules and backups. Plan limits point the other way — toward a commercial tier layered on the open-source core. Both arcs suggest the project is past feature-chasing and into making the platform defensible.

◆ Prediction

Expect the hardening thread to continue into the rest of the 0.29 line, with the plan-limits work being the seed of a paid tier that gets more definition before a 0.30 release.

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Hatchet
INFRA · APIS
6.3

Hatchet takes durable tasks serverless, with handlers for Cloudflare Workers, Vercel and Node.

◆ Current state

Hatchet's new @hatchet-dev/serverless 0.1.0 runs tasks on Cloudflare Workers, Vercel and Node. An in-engine operator delivers them by signed POST or by an invocation websocket that also carries durable sleeps, waits and child runs. Around it, the engine shipped three patches in a day: DAG replays no longer take an advisory lock, worker shutdown now waits for durable tasks, and status queries use partition pruning. The API now declares 429 with Retry-After on every authenticated call.

◆ Where it's heading

Until now, running Hatchet meant running long-lived workers. The serverless package removes that requirement, so durable execution can run where JavaScript teams already deploy. The engine work points the same way: rate limits declared in the spec, safer worker acks, cheaper status queries. Patch cadence is still very high, often several engine tags a day, and much of it fixes durable-task edge cases.

◆ Prediction

Expect quick 0.1.x serverless releases as early users hit edge cases on each platform, and possibly matching Python handlers. More engine patches on durable-task shutdown and replay are likely.

Alternatives to Dokploy and Hatchet

Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Dokploy or Hatchet.

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Recent activity from Dokploy and Hatchet

Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.

  1. 21h agoHatchetHatchet v0.115.0: contributor list update, no product notes
  2. 22h agoHatchetHatchet v0.114.15 fixes migration deadlocks
  3. 1d agoHatchetHatchet v0.114.14 builds its own continuous aggregates
  4. 1d agoHatchetHatchet v0.114.13 quiets noisy DAG operator errors
  5. 1d agoHatchetPython SDK 1.43.2 parses 429 rate-limit errors
  6. 1d agoHatchetHatchet v0.114.12 adds a Concurrency dashboard page
  7. 2mo agoDokployv0.29.14: fixes only, including Postgres argument-limit rewrites
  8. 3mo agoDokployv0.29.13 closes an OS command injection in git clone
  9. 3mo agoDokployv0.29.12 encrypts environment variables at rest with AES-256-GCM ⚡
  10. 3mo agoDokployv0.29.11 pins the install script to each release
  11. 3mo agoDokployv0.29.10 introduces plan limits

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Dokploy and Hatchet?

They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Dokploy and Hatchet are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 6.3 vs 6.3, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.

Is Dokploy better than Hatchet?

Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Dokploy and Hatchet are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 6.3 vs 6.3, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.

What are the best alternatives to Dokploy?

Top Dokploy alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Dokploy alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/dokploy for the full list with editorial commentary on each.

What are the best alternatives to Hatchet?

Top Hatchet alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Hatchet alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/hatchet for the full list with editorial commentary on each.