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Portainer vs Dockwatch: catalog facts
Portainer	Dockwatch
Freemium Community Edition is free and open source. Business Edition is a paid subscription, free…	Free Free to download and run from its public GitHub repository.
Windows, Linux, Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
One console for Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes across several hosts Deploys Compose stacks and Helm charts from the browser	Automated container updates from a web interface Notifications about container changes
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	Needs access to the Docker host it manages Recently moved its data store to MariaDB, adding a dependency
Self-hosted, Web application	Self-hosted
Open source	Closed source
License not stated	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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