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lazydocker vs Portainer: catalog facts
lazydocker	Portainer
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Freemium Community Edition is free and open source. Business Edition is a paid subscription, free…
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, Linux, Web, Self-hosted
Logs, statistics and configuration for every container in one view Restart, stop, prune and shell into a container with single keys	One console for Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes across several hosts Deploys Compose stacks and Helm charts from the browser
Terminal only Read-heavy: it is not a replacement for writing Compose files	Role-based access control and several fleet features are Business Edition only The agent needs access to the Docker socket, which is effectively root on the host
Downloadable app	Self-hosted, Web application
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License not stated
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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