Pyo vs CapRover
Autoscaling, team roles and scheduled backups on your own servers, all from one dashboard. Here's how Pyo compares, feature by feature.
| Feature | Pyo | CapRover |
|---|---|---|
| Deploying | ||
| Deploy from Git | Yes: On every push | Yes: Through a webhook |
| Deploy any container image | Yes: Yes | Yes: Yes |
| Zero-config builds | Yes: Detects your framework | Partly: A Dockerfile, or a few language templates |
| Zero-downtime deploys | Yes: With 2 or more replicas | Partly: Swarm rolling updates, with a health check |
| One-click rollback | Yes: To any earlier version | Yes: To saved image versions |
| Automatic rollback | Yes: A failed deploy undoes itself | Partly: Through Swarm update settings |
| Health checks | Yes: HTTP, TCP or command | Partly: A health check in your Dockerfile |
| Deploy hooks | Yes: A secret URL for CI | Yes: Webhook URL and app tokens |
| Cron jobs | Yes: With run history and failure alerts | No: Not built in |
| One-click templates | Yes: Databases, tools and apps | Yes: One-click apps |
| Scaling | ||
| Autoscaling | Yes: On CPU and memory, from min to max | No: No |
| Replicas across servers | Yes: As many as your servers fit, from the dashboard | Yes: Instance count, across Swarm nodes |
| Databases that fail over | Yes: Postgres, MySQL and KV, with replicas on other servers | No: One-click apps, pinned to one server |
| Services move if a server fails | Yes: Stateless services, automatically | Partly: Stateless apps, through Docker Swarm |
| Clusters | Yes: Built in from the start | Yes: Docker Swarm |
| Multiple servers | Yes: Joined over Tailscale | Yes: Joined over SSH |
| CPU and memory limits | Yes: For every service | Partly: Through a service override |
| Traffic | ||
| Web application firewall | Yes: OWASP and custom rules, off by default | No: Not built in |
| Observability | ||
| Analytics | Yes: No script to add | Yes: GoAccess reports from NGINX logs |
| CPU and memory metrics | Yes: Servers and services, no Prometheus | Partly: Servers, through NetData |
| Live logs | Yes: Yes | Yes: Yes |
| Terminal into a service | Yes: From the dashboard | Partly: From the server's shell |
| Security | ||
| Encrypted secrets | Yes: A separate key for each team | Partly: Environment variables |
| Network isolation | Yes: Between projects | Partly: Docker networks |
| External secret stores | Yes: Vault, OpenBao, Infisical, AWS, GCP, Azure and Doppler | No: Not built in |
| Team roles | Yes: Owner, admin, developer and viewer | No: A single admin login |
| Scoped API keys | Yes: Read, deploy or full, per team | Partly: Deploy tokens, per app |
| Automation | ||
| CLI | Yes: Yes | Yes: Yes |
| API | Yes: Yes | Yes: Yes |
| MCP for AI assistants | Yes: 131 tools, covering the whole API | Partly: Community servers |
| Data | ||
| Persistent volumes | Yes: Yes | Yes: Yes |
| Scheduled backups | Yes: Volumes and databases. Volumes are encrypted and restore in one click | No: Settings by hand. App data not included |
| Your own S3 bucket | Yes: Yes | No: Not built in |
Based on CapRover's public docs, checked November 9, 2026. Features and plans change, so check their site for the latest. CapRover is a trademark of its owner. Pyo isn't affiliated with or endorsed by CapRover.
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