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PortainerPodman Desktop
Freemium

Community Edition is free and open source. Business Edition is a paid subscription, free…

 Free

Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, with no company size restriction.

Windows, Linux, Web, Self-hosted Windows, macOS, Linux
  • One console for Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes across several hosts
  • Deploys Compose stacks and Helm charts from the browser
  • No licence fee regardless of company size
  • Installs and updates Podman itself, so there is one thing to manage
  • 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
  • Electron, so it is heavy for a dashboard
  • Podman's rootless model behaves differently from Docker in ways that surprise people
Self-hosted, Web application Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License not stated License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed No account needed
Not stated if it works offline Works offline

Checked September 22, 2026

Checked September 21, 2026

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