DeployManage, server management for any cloud
Envoyer pushes atomic releases to servers you already run. DeployManage builds those servers, keeps them patched, and runs the same atomic release across all of them, so one subscription covers the deploy and the box it lands on.
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Envoyer, Forge and Ploi figures read from each vendor's own pricing page in September 2026. Your servers stay in your own cloud account.
| Server | Provider | Load |
|---|---|---|
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web-01.prod
fsn1
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Hetzner |
32%
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web-02.prod
fsn1
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Hetzner |
47%
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db-01.prod
fra1
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DigitalOcean |
18%
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worker-01
eu-central-1
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AWS |
61%
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mail-01
gra
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OVHcloud |
9%
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Envoyer is still sold on its own at $10 a month for 10 projects, $20 for 20 and $50 for unlimited, and it remains the only Laravel product that pushes one project to several servers with zero downtime. It does not build or patch those servers, so most teams pay for Envoyer and a panel. The best Laravel Envoyer alternative is a panel that does both: DeployManage provisions the servers and runs atomic releases with rollback across up to 10 of them on Growth at $129 a month for 10 members. If you already have servers managed elsewhere and only want cheap multi server deploys, keep Envoyer, because $10 is hard to beat.
Pick a provider, region and size, and DeployManage installs Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL or Postgres, Redis, Supervisor and a firewall the same way every time. Envoyer assumes a server already exists and is looked after by someone else.
Each deploy builds in a dated release directory, runs your hooks and health checks, then flips the symlink. Growth and Business run that same release on every server behind a site, which is the job teams keep Envoyer around for.
Previous releases stay on disk, so going back is another symlink flip rather than a redeploy from Git. Envoyer offers rollbacks too, but only for the code, not for the PHP version or extension change that broke the box.
Unattended security updates, Let's Encrypt renewal, queue workers under Supervisor and scheduled tasks are managed in the panel. Envoyer monitors cron heartbeats but cannot restart a worker or renew a certificate.
Growth covers 10 team members at $129 a month with a record of who deployed what and when. Envoyer gives unlimited members on every tier, so on seats alone Envoyer is the cheaper answer and we say so plainly.
Laravel, plain PHP, Node.js and WordPress all deploy through the same release model. Envoyer is built for PHP projects and tuned for Laravel, so a Node service in the same fleet needs yet another tool.
Paste a DigitalOcean, Vultr, Hetzner, Linode or AWS token, or add a server you already run over SSH.
DeployManage installs the stack, or reads what is already installed on a box you point it at.
Choose the branch, set the environment file once, and add the same deploy hooks you run in Envoyer today.
Push to the branch. Each server builds its own release, health checks run, then the symlinks flip together.
Prices read from each vendor's own pricing page in September 2026. Envoyer, Forge and Ploi all bill for the software only, so the cloud provider's server bill comes on top in every column. The honest headline: Envoyer is the cheapest way to get multi server atomic deploys, and DeployManage is the cheapest way to get them without also paying someone to run the servers.
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| What you are comparing | DeployManage | Envoyer | Laravel Forge | Ploi | Deployer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Server panel with atomic deploys | Deployment service for PHP projects | Laravel server panel with deploys | Server panel with deploys | Open source PHP deploy tool |
| Entry price | One-time demo, then Starter $59/mo (3 servers, 2 members) | Basic $10/mo (10 projects) | Hobby $12/mo | Free for 1 server and 1 site; Basic $10/mo (5 servers) | No licence fee |
| Top published tier | Business $299/mo (unlimited servers and members) | Premium $50/mo (unlimited projects) | Business $39/mo (unlimited servers) | Unlimited $36/mo | No licence fee |
| Provisions and patches servers | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Zero downtime release | Yes on Growth and Business, not on Starter | Yes on every tier | Yes, but on one server per site only | Yes | Yes, if you write the recipe |
| Same release to several servers | Yes on Growth and Business | Yes, this is its core feature | No, this is why Forge users add Envoyer | Yes | Yes, if you write the recipe |
| Rollback to a previous release | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Team members | 2 on Starter, 10 on Growth, unlimited on Business | Unlimited on every tier | Unlimited | Unlimited | Not applicable |
| Runs Node.js and WordPress too | Yes | PHP projects only | Yes | Yes | Anything you script |
| Who it suits | A team that wants the servers and the releases in one subscription | A team whose servers are already managed and only needs deploys | A Laravel team on one server per site | A budget conscious team that wants both | An engineer who would rather own the script |
Forge's native zero downtime deploys cover one server per site, so anything behind a load balancer still needs Envoyer. That is two subscriptions and two dashboards before a single release has gone out, and the API token plumbing between them has to keep working. DeployManage Growth at $129 a month does the provisioning and the multi server release in one place.
Laravel's own documentation says zero downtime deployments cannot be enabled retroactively for existing Forge sites, and that a site deployed to several servers cannot be migrated to the native feature at all. If your revenue app is one of those sites, the choice is Envoyer forever or a panel that treats atomic releases as the default for every site, new or adopted.
Envoyer gives unlimited team members but no per client separation and no record of who deployed to which client. Growth covers 10 members with an audit log across 10 servers, and Business removes the limits, which matters more when a contractor leaves mid project than the $10 difference in the deploy tool does.
Envoyer deploys PHP projects. Once the stack includes a Node.js service, a WordPress marketing site and a Laravel API, you are either running three deploy paths or standardising on one panel that treats all three the same way.
For a team that wants atomic releases and the servers under them in one subscription, a server panel with deploys built in is the best Envoyer alternative, and DeployManage Growth at $129 a month covers 10 servers and 10 members with releases and rollback. For a team whose servers are already managed by someone else and that only needs cheap multi server deploys, the best alternative to Envoyer is Envoyer, at $10 a month. That answer is not a dodge. Envoyer is inexpensive and does one job well, and the reason most teams start shopping is not the deploy tool itself but the second bill and second dashboard sitting next to it.
The practical shortlist is short. Ploi does provisioning from $10 a month and zero downtime deploys from its $16 Pro plan, and it is the budget pick. Laravel Forge does provisioning with native zero downtime deploys from $12, but on one server per site. Deployer is free and will do exactly what you script, which is either the point or the problem depending on who maintains the recipe after you. DeployManage sits at the other end: the most expensive of the group, and the only one that pairs fleet wide atomic releases with 10 seats and an audit log on a single plan.
Envoyer costs $10 a month for Basic with 10 projects, $20 for Plus with 20 projects, and $50 for Premium with unlimited projects. Every tier includes unlimited team members, unlimited deployments and all features. The only functional difference between them is the project count and the deploy time limit, which is 10 minutes on Basic and Plus and 15 minutes on Premium. A free trial is offered on each tier.
What the price does not include is the server. Envoyer deploys to infrastructure you rent and maintain yourself, so the real monthly figure is Envoyer plus your cloud bill plus whatever you pay for server management. That is the number worth comparing, and it is why the table above prices the combinations rather than the tools.
| Setup | Software cost per month | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Envoyer Basic on its own | $10 | Atomic multi server deploys for up to 10 projects. Server management is yours. |
| Forge Hobby plus Envoyer Basic | $22 | Provisioning plus multi server deploys, two vendors, two dashboards. |
| Forge Growth plus Envoyer Plus | $39 | Same, at 20 projects. |
| Forge Business plus Envoyer Premium | $89 | Unlimited servers and unlimited projects, still two subscriptions. |
| Ploi Unlimited | $36 | Provisioning and zero downtime deploys in one tool, unlimited servers. |
| DeployManage Growth | $129 | 10 servers, 50 sites each, 10 members, atomic releases, rollback, audit log. |
| DeployManage Business | $299 | No limit on servers, sites or members. |
Read that table honestly and the gap at the bottom end is large: $10 against $129 is not a close call, and a solo developer with one managed server should not be reading this page. The gap closes at the top. A ten person team on Forge Business and Envoyer Premium pays $89 for two tools that still leave the audit trail, the mailboxes and the per client separation unsolved, against $129 for one.
Yes. Envoyer is still sold directly at envoyer.io with Basic, Plus and Premium tiers, and it still takes new registrations. Laravel's own announcement of native zero downtime deployments in Forge says plainly that Envoyer subscriptions will keep working with Forge for the foreseeable future, because they are what lets a single project deploy across several servers.
The confusion is worth clearing up, because it changes what you buy. Forge gained zero downtime deployments as a native feature, which removed the need for Envoyer for a large group of users: anyone running a single server per site. It did not replace Envoyer, and Laravel did not fold Envoyer into Forge subscriptions. The Forge and Envoyer integration requires an active subscription to both products and an Envoyer API token with the projects, deployments and servers scopes.
Only if a site deploys to more than one server. Forge's native zero downtime deployments work on one server per site, so a load balanced app still needs Envoyer. There are two further limits worth knowing before you plan a migration. Forge cannot enable zero downtime deployments retroactively on an existing site, so the feature is effectively for new sites. And a site already deployed to several servers cannot be migrated to the native feature at all.
That leaves three honest positions. One server per site and a new site: use Forge's native deploys and skip Envoyer. One server per site but an existing site: either recreate the site in Forge or keep Envoyer. Several servers per site: keep Envoyer, or move to a panel that treats fleet wide atomic releases as a normal feature rather than an integration between two products.
For the plain software bill in four common setups, from one server to an agency with 25 projects, see our Laravel Forge vs Envoyer pricing breakdown.
Yes, and it is the main reason to still pay for it. Envoyer can push one project to several servers in the same deployment, keeping the release directories and the symlink flip in step across all of them. That is the capability Forge's native zero downtime deploys do not cover, and it is why Laravel's documentation points multi server users at Envoyer rather than at the built in feature.
DeployManage handles the same case on Growth and Business: a site can have several servers behind it, each builds its own release, health checks run, and the symlinks flip together. Starter does not include atomic releases at all, so a three server Starter plan is the wrong tool for this job and we would rather say that here than after you have paid.
Envoyer does not create servers, install the stack, patch the operating system, issue certificates, manage databases or restart queue workers. It connects over SSH to boxes that already exist and already run Nginx or Apache, PHP-FPM, a database and whatever else your application needs. Something else has to have put that there, and something has to keep it current.
That division is fine when a platform team or a managed host owns the servers. It gets expensive when nobody does. The failure mode is specific and common: a deploy succeeds, the symlink flips, and the app still breaks because the PHP version moved, an extension is missing, the queue worker is running last week's code, or the certificate expired overnight. Envoyer's health checks will tell you the release is unhealthy. They cannot fix any of those causes, because none of them are in the release.
Envoyer also monitors cron heartbeats, which is genuinely useful and often overlooked, and sends deploy notifications to Slack, Microsoft Teams and Discord. Those are real features and a panel that lacks them is not automatically better.
Answer four questions in order and the decision usually makes itself.
Who patches the servers today? If the answer is a person whose job that is, or a managed host you already pay, Envoyer at $10 to $50 is the efficient purchase and nothing on this page should talk you out of it. If the answer is nobody, or a developer doing it between features, the deploy tool is not your problem.
Does any single site deploy to more than one server? If yes, Forge's native feature is out and you need Envoyer or a panel that does fleet wide releases. If no, Forge from $12 or Ploi from $10 covers you and Envoyer is an unnecessary line item.
How many people deploy, and does anyone need to know who did? Envoyer gives unlimited seats and no audit trail. If a client contract or an internal policy requires a record of who released what, that requirement decides the tool rather than the price does.
Is the fleet still only PHP? A Node.js service or a WordPress site in the same estate means either a second deploy path or one panel for all of it.
If you want to see the release model rather than read about it, provision a server and push a release. Every account starts with a one-time demo of one server, one site and one deployment, no card required, and the pricing page lists what each plan enforces.
Ready to stop managing servers by hand? DeployManage provisions, deploys and monitors your fleet from one dashboard.
Get startedFor teams that want the servers and the atomic releases in one subscription, a server panel with deploys built in. DeployManage Growth covers 10 servers, 50 sites each and 10 members at $129 a month with atomic releases and rollback. Ploi is the cheaper panel at $10 to $36, and Envoyer itself remains the cheapest multi server deploy tool at $10.
Basic is $10 a month for 10 projects, Plus is $20 for 20 projects and Premium is $50 for unlimited projects. All three include unlimited team members, unlimited deployments and every feature. The deploy time limit is 10 minutes on Basic and Plus and 15 minutes on Premium. A free trial is offered.
No. Envoyer is still sold at envoyer.io and still accepts new registrations. Laravel's announcement of native zero downtime deployments in Forge states that Envoyer subscriptions will keep working with Forge for the foreseeable future, because Envoyer is what deploys one project across several servers.
Only for single server sites. Forge's native zero downtime deployments cover one server per site, cannot be turned on retroactively for an existing site, and cannot be migrated to if a site already deploys to several servers. Multi server deploys still need Envoyer or a panel that runs fleet wide releases.
No. Envoyer connects over SSH to servers that already exist with the stack installed. It does not create servers, install Nginx or PHP, patch the operating system, issue certificates or manage queue workers. Those jobs belong to a server panel, a managed host or a person.
No. Envoyer is $10 to $50 a month and DeployManage is $59 to $299. The comparison worth making includes server management: Forge Business plus Envoyer Premium is $89 a month for two subscriptions, against $129 for one plan that also provisions and patches the servers and keeps an audit log.
Yes on Growth and Business. Each server builds its own dated release, your health checks run, and the symlinks flip together so visitors never see a half deployed application. Starter does not include atomic releases, so it is not the right plan for a multi server site.
Mostly, yes. Envoyer deploy hooks are shell commands run at named points around the release, and DeployManage runs the same kind of commands at the equivalent points. Paths that assume Envoyer's directory names need checking, and anything that called the Envoyer API has to be repointed.
Rolling a release back restores the code, not the machine. If a PHP minor version or an extension changed between releases, the older code may not run on the newer server, which is the case a deploy tool alone cannot cover. A panel that owns both the stack and the releases can pin the PHP version per site so the two stay in step.
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