Caddy vs FrankenPHP
Caddy
caddyserver.com
FrankenPHP
frankenphp.devSide by side
| Figure | Caddy | FrankenPHP |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $25/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 8 | 0 |
| Spec score · Web Server Software | 8.1 (#6) | 7.5 (#20) |
| Deployment | Caddy can be deployed as a command-line process, system service, container, Kubernetes workload, or embedded component. | FrankenPHP is available as standalone binaries and Docker images, and applications can be packaged as standalone binaries. |
| Integrations | Caddy supports DNS challenge integrations for providers including Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Route 53, and dozens of others through libdns. | The documentation provides integrations for Symfony, Laravel, and WordPress, and lists examples for API Platform, Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3, Magento 2, and others. |
| Security | The maker says Caddy's TLS defaults meet PCI DSS, NIST, and HIPAA compliance requirements. | The Docker documentation describes running FrankenPHP as a non-root user and discusses building on distroless or Docker hardened images to reduce attack surface. |
| Support | Free community help is available through the forum; paid sponsorship tiers offer private support and other services depending on tier. | Les-Tilleuls.coop offers migration, training, and production hosting and management services for FrankenPHP projects. |
Plans
Caddy
- Indie$25 a month
- Indie Pro$50 a month
- Startup$99 a month
- Startup Pro$249 a month
- Business$999 a month
- Business+$2,999 a month
- Enterprise$5,900 a month
- Enterprise+$11,900 a month
In their own words
Caddy
Caddy is an extensible server platform used as a web server or proxy, and it is self-hosted. By default, it obtains and renews TLS certificates for sites and redirects HTTP to HTTPS. Its reverse proxy supports HTTP, HTTPS, WebSockets, gRPC, and FastCGI, along with load balancing and health checks. Configuration options include JSON through a RESTful API, the Caddyfile, and other adapters. Compile-time plugins extend its static binary. DNS challenge integrations include Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Route 53, and other providers through libdns. Caddy can run as a command-line process, system service, container, Kubernetes workload, or embedded component. The software is free, with no paywalled features; sponsorship plans add services and support while leaving the license unchanged. Free community help is available through a forum. Caddy says its TLS defaults meet PCI DSS, NIST, and HIPAA compliance requirements, and that dependencies are verified with Go modules and release artifacts are cryptographically signed.
FrankenPHP
FrankenPHP has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.