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

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