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September 20, 2026

DeployHQ pricing and alternatives for .NET teams

DeployHQ shows up in searches from teams who already have servers and just want a reliable way to push code to them. It’s worth being precise about what it is, because “deployment automation” and “a platform that runs your app” are two different jobs, and DeployHQ is squarely the first one.

What DeployHQ does

DeployHQ watches a Git repository (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or its own hosted repos) and, on a push or a manual trigger, runs a deploy: pulling or building the new code and pushing it to a target you’ve already configured — an FTP/SFTP server, an S3 bucket, or a server it can SSH into. It’s the CI/CD “get the code there” piece, with build steps, deploy notifications, and rollback to a previous deployment.

Current pricing

Figures from DeployHQ’s own pricing page, checked September 20, 2026; every paid plan includes a 10-day free trial, no card required. The tiers scale with the number of projects, servers, and users you connect, not with a feature you’d otherwise be missing — the deploy mechanism itself is the same across plans.

What it doesn’t do (mostly)

DeployHQ’s core product assumes the server already exists, already has whatever runtime your app needs installed, and already terminates TLS somehow — it pushes code to that server, it doesn’t build the server. As of this writing, DeployHQ is piloting a beta “Managed VPS Hosting” add-on: a DigitalOcean-backed Linux VPS with SSH access and CI/CD baked in, currently free during early access with pricing “TBA.” That’s a meaningfully different product from the deploy-only core, and worth watching, but it’s not yet a priced, general-availability alternative to a provisioning platform — and there’s no indication it’s aimed specifically at .NET runtimes, TLS/certificate management, or process supervision the way a .NET-focused platform would be.

Where a .NET-specific alternative fits

If the actual job is “take an ASP.NET Core or Blazor app from a GitHub repo to a running server with HTTPS, restarts, and rollbacks” — not “push code to a server I’ve already fully set up” — DotDeployer does the provisioning and the runtime setup as well as the deploy: it creates the server (or connects one you already have), installs the right .NET runtime, configures nginx and a Let’s Encrypt certificate, and deploys from GitHub with the same release/rollback model. For a team that already has servers built and just wants the push-to-deploy step DeployHQ provides, DeployHQ remains a reasonable, cheaper-at-the-low-end choice. For a .NET team starting from “we have a repo and no server yet,” DotDeployer covers more of the actual path to production.